Archive for March, 2008
Corvallis > Seattle?
Other than Corvallis having a better restaurant (Local Boyz) and a better baseball and football team’s (Oregon State), there’s not to much I would say Corvallis beats Seattle in.
However, Fortune has just announced that Corvallis is the 48th best place to “Live and launch a company in 2008.“ I have known some great companies to [...]
Facebook needs to speed up.
30 minutes- Time it takes Google to notice that I have a new blog post and index it.
30 seconds- Time it takes for a typical email to be sent to someone I know.
2 seconds- Time it takes for Twitter to update my tweets and send them out.
1 second- Time it takes to [...]
Why I’m now a fan of twitter
I signed up for twitter over a year ago, yet after I had tried it out for a few weeks I lost interest in the tool. It struck me as something that was easily replaced by Facebook’s status section and that since I had more friends on Facebook than I had on Twitter, why [...]
Things I hope Starbucks announces today
I know most people usually do this with Steve Jobs, but I’m a big fan of Starbucks and am really looking forward to the coming announcements from Howard on what the future holds for Starbucks.
Here are the things I am hoping to see unveiled today. Some I think we might see, some might be wishful [...]
Two of my favorite things should come together.
Tomorrow is the Starbucks Annual Meeting, which I really wish I was going to. I’m a shareholder, but with just recently taking a vacation, decided I should be at work, rather than checking out what Howard talks about tomorrow. He’s typically not rolling out as many new and noteworthy things as Steve Jobs, but since [...]
Because I thought I wanted to go into video
Money Saving tips turn into…have a life and get fired.
Recently I have been seeing alot of talk about the work life balance in the startup community. On a Seattle Startup mailing list talking about the 4 day work week and then today Jason Calacanis and Tech Crunch have been posting back and forth about their ideas for a work life balance at a [...]
