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Corvallis > Seattle?

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ March 30, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

Why I’m now a fan of twitter

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Money Saving tips turn into…have a life and get fired.

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ March 7, 2008 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

Kleiner Perkins creates a $100M iFund

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ March 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Sports tickets on a commodity exchange?

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ January 7, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

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 an [...]

Business Idea: Personalized Podcasts

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ August 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By Otis Kimzey ⋅ August 16, 2007 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

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