September 2010
“Jack-n-Grill serves up a 7 pound breakfast burrito filled with a dozen eggs and...”
– 9 Restaurants That Will Kill You
my heart hurts
(via kmaverick)
I love that 2 of the top 9 are in Jersey. Road trip. Also, the 12 egg omelette at Beth’s Cafe in Seattle deserves to be an honorable mention for this list.
August 2010
AngelList Scouts - Venture Hacks →
Posting to let you all know that I am now officially the NY area Scout for AngelList. If you have a startup that you think is ready to be pitched to angel investors, let me know and I’ll do what I can to help.
My job was to game Digg using infographics, voting... →
tedr:
If you don’t know that using infogrpahics to game digg and google was a highly employed technique, then this whole thread will be fascinating to you. (Scout’s honor, we’ve never done this, but have mapped out doing it. Where the whole infographic-strategy got whacky is when sites would make entirely unrelated graphic topics that still linked to their site, such as the history of the candy...
Going on an unfollowing binge.
Look out.
(Apologies to anyone who follows this blog via RSS for just wasting 30 seconds of your life. You should just bite the bullet and join Tumblr.)
Update: Now almost 50 people lighter. Feels good!
Is There Anything Good About Men →
This is the best article I’ve ever read on the differences between men and women. It’s very long but really worth reading.
Highlights:
The distribution in ability is naturally different in men and women. There are more men at the top AND bottom of society. There are more men at the top AND bottom of IQ.
Men are genetically predisposed to take more risks than women, which means those...
Tumblr's built-in search feature is a joke.
Frustrated.
“Provocative statistics from Diana Frazier of FLAG Capital this morning in PE...”
– Too Many Tourist VCs, or Too Many Apex Predators?
Backblaze online backup almost acquired - Breaking... →
tedr:
Very very informative and forthcoming read of one company’s recent near-acquisition experience
@caterpillarcowboy
lovelivelearn:
I think your endeavors are pretty awesome. Therefore, you get more awesome every day. Just wanted to share! :)
Thanks, D! Your positive thoughts come at a good time… we’ve got several things up in the air right now and it’s really stressful not knowing which ball will drop first. I wish I could be more specific, but unfortunately I can’t. Either way,...
“Feature wars with your competitors are one of the surefire ways to derail real...”
– 52 Weeks of UX: UX Won’t Save You (via 2105)
“Angels advertise their investment histories as well, but the informational value...”
– Thoughts After Y Combinator Demo Day - Adam Smith’s Blog
Truth.
BIRTHDAY WISH! Plz pay attenshun:
mdfsmash:
I have a birthday wish: It is for you to lend your support and latte/app store dollars as I train for the New York City marathon. I’m scared out of my mind (the “oh shit” moment at the starting line never seems to ease up), but I can do this. I can do this especially because I relied on after school care when I was younger, and that is what Camp Interactive is working on starting.
...
Want to work at a startup?
micahbaldwin:
msg:
If you are in NYC and want to work at a startup.
Please contact me.
Only qualification: you must be AWESOME
Who wants to work in NYC? Boulder is about as AWESOME as you are. :) Hit me up yo!
Now that msg’s post has been reblogged by Foursquare, Soundcloud, and now graphicly (with a copycat post from HypeMachine), I’m fully expecting a trend piece in...
Postling: New! RSS Tracking and Review... →
This weekend, Postling launched two useful new features: tracking RSS feeds and local business autodiscovery on Yelp and CitySearch. Both features aim to make using social media just that much easier for the everyday small business owner. Here’s a brief breakdown on how these additions work:
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We’re starting to see some really interesting (and creative!) uses of RSS tracking,...
Introducing: The chocri Recommendation Engine!
chocri:
Say hello to something very cool - the chocri Recommendation Engine! As you design your own chocolate bar, it suggests you toppings based on:
What you choose so far (base chocolate and toppings)
What other customers ordered previously
So thousands and thousands of previous orders now inform our recommendations, that help you make a killer bar.
Which still shouldn’t keep you from...
David Beisel: Micro VCs Are all BFFs... Forever?
quoted from Micro VCs Are all BFFs… Forever?
Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. One or two players decide (sometimes rather quickly) to make a seed-stage investment in a new startup, and as a round comes together they invite in a number of their Micro VC and angel cohorts. What’s the reasoning for all of this chummy behavior? While traditional VCs...
Paul Kedrosky: Why Japan Isn't the U.S., or the...
quoted from Why Japan Isn’t the U.S., or the Reverse.
Lots of people continue to make over-strict comparisons between Japan’s debt-engorged situation and that of the U.S. There is a new Credit Suisse report out arguing that such comparisons are way overdone. Here are the main bullets:
The US has had far more proactive fiscal/monetary policy (Japanese monetary conditions...