Startup
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 [...]
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 continue [...]
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 startup. [...]
Kleiner Perkins creates a $100M iFund
Kliener Perkins along with Apple has created a $100M fund, called the iFund, which will be used to help create a development community for the iPhone. Today Apple announced quite a few new things for the iPhone, including Microsoft Server Exchange support and the the Software Developers Kit which will allow any developer to create [...]
Sports tickets on a commodity exchange?
I just read a very entertaining book called Rigged that was written about the Merc Exchange in NY. How it started as a place to trade potatoes and grew into what it is today, an oil exchange. Well this weekend I read about my new favorite exchange that I really hope takes off. Yoonew, is [...]
Business Idea: Personalized Podcasts
I wanted to go for a run today, but the biggestfactor in me choosing not to run, was what I had on my ipod. I like listening to my music on the bus or when I’m walking around downtown. When I have to run for 25 to 45 minutes though, I need something new, something [...]
FEEDJIT
See that little widget to the right that says where people are coming from or where they left to? Yea, that’s a new widget called FEEDJIT. It was created in 10.5 hours by Mark Maunder who sent out an email to me (on a group list) that talked about his experience creating it. So far [...]
