Business Strategy
TechStars - two weeks left to apply
A while back, Brad Feld asked Don and I to be mentors for TechStars. (Don was a mentor last year as well.) The list of mentors is impressive (my participation notwithstanding!), and the overall program is a fantastic idea. In short: 10 startups get picked from among hundreds, receive seed funding, and get access to […]
Randy Pausch got a role in upcoming Star Trek movie
A few months ago, I (along with most of the rest of the blogosphere) was moved by Randy Pausch’s last lecture at Carneige Mellon. Pausch, you may recall, has a terminal diagnosis from an aggressive cancer, and has just a few months left.
Not surprisingly, many people were moved by his lecture. Here’s the transcript, it’s […]
eBay and Skype not going so well
John Paczkowski at AllThingsD writes that the honeymoon is most definitely over in the eBay/Skype marriage:
This morning the Internet auction giant said it was taking a $1.43 billion charge for its acquisition of the Internet telephone provider and that Niklas Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, was stepping down as chief executive of the division. The […]
Here’s to the crazy ones
I don’t have an iPhone – I must be getting older (come to think of it, I do turn 36 later this month which is starting to sound decidedly un-young), but it just doesn’t hold much fascination for me. Sure it’s an elegant piece of equipment, but I just need my preferred phone/device to make […]
Tracking Twitter
Twitter’s new track feature is really remarkable. Back in March, I asked (on Twitter, naturally):
So… if I wanted to monitor the twitter public timeline for mentions of “FeedBurner”, how would I go about doing that?
I ended up answering my own question, and it […]
Randy Pausch
Not really sure that there are words that would do justice to Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”, given at Carneige Mellon recently. Randy’s home page has a number of links to recent media coverage, but here’s the short version: he’s 47 years old, a legend in computer science (particularly in video game design and virtual reality), […]
Residence Inn Balance
I saw a shorter version of this ad at CNN.com and had to find it on Youtube so I could share it:
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Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Interview on Total Picture Radio
Last month at SES, I sat down with Peter Clayton to talk about FeedBurner. The interview ended up covering far more ground than I expected; how I got my job at FeedBurner, how I hired Eric and Jake, the guy who got me into blogging (John Robb), Daemon, search engine optimization, FeedBurner’s growth, and much […]
VW Phaeton ad
Few people know that Volkswagen has a super-luxury sedan called the Phaeton (in the US, it’s no longer sold, and only a few thousand are on the road here). Its price tag was north of $75,000, and most US buyers think of VW as the Jetta/bug/Cabrio company, not an Audi A-8 competitor. I saw one […]
Flagpole Sitta
This may be the best recruiting video ever made. Tell me you wouldn’t kill to work here (btw, it’s Connected Ventures if you’re wondering) after watching this:
[vimeo 173714]
