Archive for the ‘startups’ Category
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
I've been meaning to write about my friend Dave Schappell's startup TeachStreet since it launched back in April. With TeachStreet's launch into it's second market - Portland today - now seems like the perfect time.
First a little background - I met Dave last year at Seattle Ignite summer 2007. I ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Surf Canyon is a startup focused on improving search results that a college friend of mine, Dave Hardtke, is chief scientist (despite my prior stated views on inflated startup titles I bit my tongue and didn't but Dave's chops). We had dinner tonite in SF in order to catch up ...
Posted in search, startups, surf canyon | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Over the past year I have had the chance to advise, consult, and work at a number of early stage companies. And as I sit here on a flight to Silicon Valley this morning, I have a few seconds to reflect and come to the conclusion that I sure ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Marcelo Calbucci runs Seattle 2.0 a blog that has quickly emerged as the running index of Seattle 2.0 web startups. Marcelo's site is the first comprehensive list of Seattle based-startups and he deserves a lot of credit for his most watched creation: the Seattle Startup Index. If you've ...
Posted in seattle startups, startups | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Funniest video ever (at least to startup tech geeks).
Here Comes Another Bubble
Set to the tune of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "here comes another bubble", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/12/04/here-comes-another-bubble/" });
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
There has been a lot of news of folks claiming to have come up with the idea of Facebook before the Facebook folks did. And all I could think of was Jon Lovitz's Pathological Liar character from SNL. First there was the lawsuit from the ConnectU guys, ...
Posted in Fon, YouTube, facebook, simplytv, startups | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 31st, 2007
We've all seen little, itty-bitty startups with execs with title like EVP of this or SVP of that. Unfortunately they're silly and unnecessary. To a VC it screams this guy or gal doesn't get it - startups aren't about titles, startups are about producing a winning company. Excessive titles are ...
Posted in benchmark, bill gurley, hummer winblad, simplytv, startups, titles | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 10th, 2007
I am attending gnomedex today and tomorrow grokking with an interesting slice of the tech blogosphere and startup-sphere. Some of the folks I have finally met face to face include Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Beth Goza, Vanessa Fox, Shannon Clarke, Chris Pirillo, Dave Schappel, Jeff Bar and many others. Great ...
Posted in facebook, gnomedex, seattle, startups | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
blist and Loomia have been keeping me busy for sure. And on top of that helping with the Casual Game Association's - seattle conference (Casual Connect) coming up next month I'm swamped! I have a bunch of posts in the backlog that I need to get on here, but in ...
Posted in blist, casual connect, cga, google, loomia, open office, startups, zoho | No Comments »
Friday, April 20th, 2007
One thing about working in online startups is to remember never burn bridges because you never who or when you will bump into someone from your past. It's a small world after all.
I had a few such experiences this past week at the Topix party around Web 2.0 Expo (BTW ...
Posted in AK, daum, loomia, lycos, startups, web 2.0, wired | 1 Comment »
