December 2011
2 posts
5 tags
Getting a startup job for the startup newbie
I’ve had the opportunity recently to chat with current undergrads on a couple of occasions and I’ve found myself repeating some of the same things. That usually begs for a blog post.
Getting a startup job requires focus. Pick a couple companies you would love to work for and figure out how you could be useful. The “spray and pray” method will not get you a job. Go deep...
March 2011
1 post
Color: A photo app truly worthy of our new cameras
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/color-looks-to-reinvent-social-interaction-with-its-mobile-photo-app-and-41-million-in-funding/
For those too lazy to read it, Color is a photo app, where all the content is public and the primary way of interacting with content and people is location. I’m really not doing it justice here but I don’t want to quote the whole TechCrunch article so check...
June 2010
1 post
Hi, we're Hot Potato.: State of the Potato Vol. 2 →
Sup, friendos! First things first, we want to thank all of you for your support and feedback over the past several months. Our goal at Hot Potato is to make it easy to share what you’re doing with friends and connect with others who have similar interests. We’ve been hard at work on some new…
May 2010
2 posts
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April 2010
1 post
“Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything...”
– Marc Andreessen
March 2010
1 post
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– Here is New York, E. B. White, 1949 (via cdixon)
January 2010
1 post
“If you are here, your network will be using all of the latest tools – Twitter,...”
– From a post titled “Why You Need to be in Silicon Valley”.
In general I hate posts like this. I don’t live in SIlicon Valley, but I do spend quite a bit of time there. I want to believe that twitter streams and blog comments allow anyone, anywhere to follow and make connections with the most...
December 2009
5 posts
We're live in the App Store!
hotpotatohq:
Great news - the Hot Potato app is live. Thanks very much to Apple for the approval.
You can download it here or can search for hotpotato in iTunes.
Lots more detail coming on this over the weekend, and we haven’t forgotten those who have signed up for an email. We’re working on on the web that will make things easier to use and understand for all of our new users.
Thanks again...
“Entrepreneurship exists in the tiny space between madness and genius; and, its...”
– comment by JLM on the The Herd Instinct (via fred-wilson)
A Night with Hot Potato
joevc:
Twitter’s explosive growth and the iPhone app store have spawned a fresh batch of real-time data services. Many brilliant minds are searching for sustainable business models in the segment. Last night I tested out one of the most promising new players, Hot Potato. The startup enables real-time, curated chats around live events. Users can create a discussion thread, either public or...
November 2009
2 posts
October 2009
5 posts
“Many people ask my what Neoteny (my company’s name) means. It means the...”
– i never knew what Neoteny meant. Now I do. It’s an excellent word and I agree with Joi about the increasing importance of it. I’m going to see him today a few times and will tell him so myself.
The Meaning of Neoteny - Joi Ito’s Web
(via fred-wilson)
Malcolm Gladwell: Football, dog fighting, and... →
mattlehrer:
Research released the findings of an N.F.L.-funded phone survey of just over a thousand randomly selected retired N.F.L. players—all of whom had played in the league for at least three seasons. Self-reported studies are notoriously unreliable instruments, but, even so, the results were alarming. Of those players who were older than fifty, 6.1 per cent reported that they had received...
“This is an odd award. You’d expect it to come later in Obama’s presidency and...”
– Josh Marshall (via langer)
“If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any...”
– Julia Sorel
I am frequently surprised at the average person’s lack of willingness to try to accomplish something potentially a little beyond their abilities.
September 2009
2 posts
“When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard. We worked all waking hours,...”
– Caterina Fake - Working hard is overrated - Sept 25, 2009
Startups are hard. They require an insane amount of hard work and stress. But I like how Caterina calls out the difference between freaking out vs working hard.
(via bijan)
“Most Infomercial-esque: Ajay Kulkarni from Sensobi, a company making a...”
– Boston.com article on TechStars Boston Investor Evening. My boy loves his blackberry. Go Sensobi.
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
1 post
Men, Women, and Parking Spaces
funsizebytes:
Subtitle: Wherein I take my personal observations and consider them normative…
Yesterday, I wrote:
I just realized that the difference between the way men & women choose a parking place for a car has everything to do with public bathrooms.
I have long noticed a difference between myself and my wife when choosing a parking spot in a not-crowded parking lot.
I will leave at...
June 2009
3 posts
“In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem...”
– Michael McFaul, National Security Council by way of Signal vs Noise
Pssst, wanna buy a Prada bag for $20?
smartasshat:
A Movado watch for $25, a Gucci handbag for $20.
…
Federal officials, working with the Derry police, spent two years investigating the sale of counterfeit products at a local flea market.
…
Buying a product that looks like the real thing but isn’t may seem like a victimless crime, but it isn’t. Among the victims are the people who lost a job or didn’t get one because of the...
May 2009
1 post
As I mourn the loss of someone I didn’t know, hadn’t heard of and could have conceivably never have learned of, I am amazed at the unexpected consequence of the digital-social lives we now lead. I remember talking with an alumnus of my grad school after a number of attempts to link up. We laughed about how much I “knew” about him and his family just as a result of having...
March 2009
2 posts
“vctips: When you email me a slide deck that ends in “version12.ppt”,...”
– Is being the first person I’ve pitched important to you? Are you looking to plant a flag or do a deal? If you want me to lie to you and tell you that you’re my first, I can do that, I just didn’t realize that would sweeten the pot, so to speak.
Incidentally, if you get...
February 2009
2 posts
“For most of its history basketball has measured not so much what is important as...”
– I read the excellent article about Shane Battier titled The No-Stats All-Star and I couldn’t help but consider how the same misguided obsession with easy-to-measure statistics has influenced the design of social networking applications and rendered many of them ineffective.
Is Facebook or Tumblr...
January 2009
1 post
Watchfunsizebytes:
Best job ever of not cracking a smile to let on that “Yeah, I know what I just said”
Wow. The man must be a sociopath to let that one out with out a giggle.
August 2008
4 posts
July 2008
7 posts
WatchFrench/European ads are the best.
Welcome back to NYC!
saadiq: oh, the lady on the train this morning was absolutely bat-shit crazy
saadiq: apparently she'd gotten into it with some mta person
jevaun: hehehe, welcome back.
saadiq: fled onto the train
jevaun: word?
saadiq: and spent the next 4 stops talking about how her pimps were iller than their pimps
jevaun: oh dear...
saadiq: and how that BITCH was trying to act like smooth the hustler... FBI... BITCH...
jevaun: wow
saadiq: intermingled with (thankfully) failed attempts to remove her shirt
jevaun: that's special crazy....
saadiq: that level of crazy is almost as interesting as our ability to thoroughly ignore it
jevaun: not your ordinary run of the mill crazy.
saadiq: looking around the train not a soul was stirring
jevaun: hehehe
jevaun: true new york.
saadiq: I really wanted to pause and ask crazy who she was talking with so loudly
jevaun: no you didn't.
saadiq: but I'm not new. Don't go and engage crazy.
jevaun: crazy woulda followed you all the way up into those fancy new offices.
saadiq: lol
jevaun: and THAT is not a good look
saadiq: she got off at 59th
jevaun: not on week 2 anyway....
saadiq: you could hear her all the way down the platform
jevaun: you always can. Crazy is never shy.
saadiq: I really want to condense that into a twitter post but I don't think 140 chars is ready for it
saadiq: ahh.... perfect for tumblr
Help the Honey Bees →
Haagen Dazs site to build awareness around “Colony Collapse Disorder” and how it effects us. Heavy flash site but important issue.
WatchHomemade porn… handle with care.
“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
– Charles Eames
May 2008
1 post
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Brightkite & Privacy
I’ve been playing with Brightkite lately and while I’m not sure exactly why, it has been fun. Really, this is just Dodgeball 2.0 and had Google not let it languish, who knows where that would be, but woulda’, shoulda’, coulda’, right? There aren’t many people on Brightkite yet but in NYC, it’s interesting to see who else has been at a location or to look who is near you. As I said, I’m not sure...
August 2007
1 post
Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph
I just finished reading Brad Fitzpatrick’s Thoughts on the Social Graph by way of Anil Dash’s post on it. (It took a couple of days to get through with all of the Hurricane Dean excitement here in Kingston.) The notion is that both users and site developers would be best served by the development of a neutral, third-party application to do the heavy lifting for storing information...