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 ...
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 ...
David Marks, CEO and co-founder of Loomia, has written a piece over at the new GigaOm site - Foud+Read - that talks about how startups including Loomia often change direction to be successful. Loomia's position and success today is definitely related to the changes it made a couple of years ago. ...
Fred Vogelstein's interview with Eric Schmidt presents an interesting story about classic DIY/NIH impulses that comes from engineers and developers - in this case Larry and Sergei desire to build a financial system themselves instead of buying one from Oracle. At every startup I have worked at this desire comes up. Developers ...
Mark Cuban's question in a post below asks us to imagine if my old company - encoding.com aka Loudeye (which encoded lots of a-list music and video) decided to throw all the content it had online. That would have been one hell of a site from a user's perspective - movies, ...
Thanks to Dave McClure, I had a chance to sit down the other day with Scott Rafer, CEO of myBlogLog. In the course of our conversation (largely reliving the ups and downs of the online business sector from 98 to present), Scott made the good point that when it comes ...
I was able to attend the PaidContent.org Seattle Mixer tonite. It was great to run into old faces dating back to my early days in Seattle at encoding.com (later known as Loudeye). One point brought home again is that startup people are startup people. The craziness, chaos ...
