April 2011
“Included within the analysis is a competitive comparison, specific...”
– - This is literally the same pitch I get from every social apps / marketing company.. these jargon-filled sentences make me want to burninate something. You want my business - speak English. Talk to me like a person. (via matthewknell)
Wow, “enteprise social accelerators”. We have a...
ING Direct Customers Can Now Pay Friends By... →
Love this. I know I’m in the minority now (despite these two companies being the “hot” deals of 2010, funny how VC works) but I still love Bump and Venmo for p2p money / data transfer.
Anatomy of Seed: An Inside Look at a $1M Seed... →
Looks like our experience.
Appmakr dealt with 170+ actors, including VCs, angels, seed funds, middlemen, corporates and even an angel group. - They were rejected 130+ times, but raised $1M from 14 top investors.
“These results mean that Apple has at last bested Microsoft not merely in terms...”
– Microsoft beats estimates, but not Apple in third quarter earnings (via infoneer-pulse)
Daaaaamn.
“Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal...”
– Dinner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So dinner is eaten at lunch time, and supper is eaten at dinner time.
Accel Invests $35M. in 99designs…After Years of... →
A good portion of the cash will go to the founders, who don’t have an operational role at the company. Meanwhile, the deal frees up new options for the team. The rest of the cash will juice sales and marketing, hire some engineers to build new features, and maybe buy a smaller complementary company or two, Braccia says.
With investments in 99designs ($35M), Squarespace ($38.5M), and Atlassian...
Rucola Opens Tonight
whitneymcn:
christmasgorilla:
Rucola, my restaurant, opens tonight in Boerum Hill—we’re located at the corner of Dean and Bond.
Please come and visit, if you know what I look like, introduce yourself and let me buy you a drink—I’ll be there until 9 PM.
I can’t make it tonight, but looking forward to eating there soon.
Congrats! Saw the mention in the NYTimes Dining section yesterday.
“Fight on the basis of a better product, a better user experience, fight on...”
– K9 Ventures » The investment that didn’t happen
Sad to read this. Arlo and AJ are stand up guys.
(via jryu)
Wow, what a story.
Will Carroll's Rndm Crap: The New Tool →
willcarroll:
There’s nothing more annoying than something that mostly works. The microwave in my house suddenly started not working at times — the sensor would occasionally trip or it would just reset itself — and that’s just not acceptable. You don’t realize how much you use something until it stops working….
Will, next time you are in NYC / NJ I will cook you a proper meal. Microwave...
“Nationally, prices have declined 32.6 percent since the market peaks, and are...”
– Home prices drop 3 percent in region - NorthJersey.com
Note too that there’s an arithmetic subtlety here - “fall from peak” numbers always look small by their nature. If prices go from 100 to 200 then they rose by 100%. If they fall from 200 to 100 then they fell by 50%. Same magnitude change but...
“Radio Shack reported that the average Foursquare user spends 3.5 times more at...”
– Mashable.com (via nickbmartin)
Correlation is not causation. I also bet that people with more money spend more money at Radio Shack. Oh, and they probably also own iPhones and know what Foursquare is.
Facebook Acq-hires Data Organization Startup... →
Feltron Report -> Facebook stock
YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious →
For $1 + operating costs?
“Despite being a mineral and thus inorganic by definition, a sea salt from New...”
– In Salts, a Pinch of Bali or a Dash of Spain - The Curious Cook - NYTimes.com (via jryu)
Reblogging for Chris, who believes “organic” is marketing BS.
“The early days of any company – successful or not – are complex, messy, often...”
– Melodramatic Bullshit (via pegobry)
Scratching the itch →
Great post about starting TheLadders by the founder, Marc Cenedella.
“You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. ”Started” doesn’t mean joining...”
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / There are two kinds of people in the world
this is my life and i love it. (via reecepacheco)
For once, cdixon gives me the warm fuzzies. I may not know what I’m doing exactly, but I’m doing it. And I get smarter every day.
Sony Says PlayStation Hacker Got Personal Data -... →
Man, my credit card # is in there. Ugh.
hugeinjapan asked: Any recent intel on Esca? Still worth a visit or has it been passed by?
Stream Fleet Foxes' Album Helplessness Blues On... →
david-noel:
So many great albums coming out lately. This is a good year for music.
hmm ...: Update: Some channels work perfectly and... →
jcg1013:
evangotlib:
Unscrew all of the cable connections and reattach, especially at the wall. Reboot your box. You’ll be fine.
you might try calling the cable company’s automated phone line. Mine has an option to “refresh the descrambler box” - takes around 15 minutes, but if the other things…
So they came by today and spent an hour on the roof, redoing all the wiring. Turns out...
Update: Some channels work perfectly and some...
evangotlib:
Unscrew all of the cable connections and reattach, especially at the wall. Reboot your box. You’ll be fine.
I wish that worked. Even tried plugging in straight from the wall, bypassing any splitters. No luck. Weird that some work in full HD but others are totally black.
Update: Some channels work perfectly and some...
Cable just died.
Cable channel information comes up, but no picture. Any ideas?
No Game of Thrones tonight is making me desperate.
“It was clear by the late 90s that this Internet thing had legs. And everyone...”
– Michael Arrington
We’re In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble!
French Hours →
tanya77:
French hours are simple: If every single person on the set agrees, you can film a movie without lunch breaks. They serve food (just as much, and probably croissants too) all day long. People eat when they can. The production never slows down.
The hilarious aspect of this term is that it’s about as French as “French Fries”. When I worked in France, the “French Hours” there were the...
French Hours →
French hours are simple: If every single person on the set agrees, you can film a movie without lunch breaks. They serve food (just as much, and probably croissants too) all day long. People eat when they can. The production never slows down.
Good article from 2004. If, like me, you got an ad and then were redirected to the homepage, just come back and click this link again.
Why Groupon Sucks For Merchants and LivingSocial... →
Seems like Groupon, like Yelp, cares about the consumer more than the merchant. Will be interesting to see how that plays out.
Sales of ‘Green’ Household Products Fall as... →
PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: "I’ve Never... →
mdfsmash:
Yesterday, we published venture capitalist Craig Paige’s internal dilemma about funding an expectant mother’s startup.
We also published Jessica’s response at the end, but it’s so good we…
(correction: his name is Paige Craig, not the other way around, and he’s an angel investor, not a VC. Does anyone edit over there?) Disclaimer: Paige is an investor of mine and someone I...
fishy:
kelsium:
The food that I am legitimately snobby about is bagels. The only places you can get decent bagels are in the state of New York and select parts of New Jersey. Nowhere else.
Same.
And some of the replies to this post hurt my heart. If you don’t hold a passionate stance on bagels, you aren’t really living.
I’m a big fan of the bagels at Bergen Bagel in Brooklyn....
Apple crushes Street forecasts, revenue up 83... →
soupsoup:
Apple reported a net profit of $5.99 billion, or $6.40 a share, while revenue surged 83 percent to $24.67 billion.
New iPhone expected in September.
That’s ridiculous. Wow.