I want to preface this post by stating that I am a hard core car guy who's owned cars from just about every auto company. I love, love cars. Innovation, execution and design are all things I long for in a car. Also as a startup junkie I am biased ...
Recently I was in London for Seedcamp and ad-tech on behalf of Lookery. One of the challenges of traveling to Europe in this Crackberry/iPhone day and age are the INSANE data roaming charges that mobile co's like ATT Wireless like to charge. The standard rate is 2c per KB or ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
