Mike Arrington is a genius. Main-stream journalists sit up, knees together, back straight and start taking notes because this is a master at work. His recent blog entry titled Scamville calls out the most focused on and buzz-worthy companies in the valley for making money from advertising scams and accuses Facebook of encouraging a vile […]
November 1, 2009 | Startups | No comments
This is a brilliant short talk by Tina Selig asking students “If you had $5 and 2 hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible?”. Her point that capital can simply be a distraction is a view I’ve held for a long time – especially in the context of cheap-to-start-and-run consumer […]
October 31, 2009 | Startups | No comments
Under the guise of fostering innovation, guys like The Life Sciences and Healthcare Venture Summit, who spammed me today are happily taking money from entrepreneurs and offering a tax deductible day out of the office in return. Perhaps I’m inspired by Jason Calcanis’s recent jihad against investors that charge you to pitch, but these high […]
October 15, 2009 | Startups | No comments
What’s a Bleet? A blog entry that really should be a tweet. Naval and Nivi (venturehacks) posted an interesting tweet today: Chris Dixon on the problem with taking seed money from big VCs: http://j.mp/2BHIPe. Some solutions: http://j.mp/4hFSsL I agree. I think there’s cachet value in having a large VC invest and based on Chris’s (IMO […]
October 14, 2009 | Startups | No comments
Update: I wrote this blog entry and then predictably, I unposted it after my more diplomatic side took over. But it got out via my RSS feed anyway and a friend enjoyed it. So here it is in all it’s left wing liberal glory. I’m switching the published date to today. Enjoy. I’m an immigrant. […]
October 12, 2009 | Immigration, Innovation, Startups | No comments
I’m sitting here laughing hysterically at 3am trying not to wake the whole house. Found this old fail surfing youtube:
October 11, 2009 | Startups | No comments
Update: My real-time traffic feed says it all. 🙂 Thanks for the mention and link-love M.G. and Techcrunch. Two people died and 19 passed out at an Arizona sweat lodge last night. The author who hosted the event is James Arthur Ray and is an avid Twitterer. He deleted his 10 most recent tweets after […]
October 9, 2009 | Startups | 1 comment
October 9, 2009 | Startups | No comments
Google Groups archive of the STS mailing list isn’t working reliably, so I’m archiving a few emails I’ve sent to the STS list here. One day when I have too much time I’ll create a reliable threaded archive of the whole list. I sent this as a reply to a “getting started” advice request from […]
June 7, 2009 | Startups | 1 comment
I posted this today to the Seattle tech startup mailing list. A few folks liked it, so I’m reposting it here. It’s in response to a NY Times article talking about VC’s not caring about a business plan. In my experience the most interesting things to a prospective valley based technology investor in descending order […]
May 15, 2009 | Startups | No comments