In a former life I served as Editor of Seattle 2.0, and one of the most popular pieces of content we produced was the Seattle 2.0 Index – a monthly ranked list of all the local startups. It was a labor of love by Marcelo Calbucci and I was never Continue Reading
Founder Fiction is a new series I have created to express common experiences, thoughts and feelings I discuss with founders using fictional characters and situations that blend my own experiences with stories from others. Robert Peterson placed his drink on the slate counter of the bathroom and leaned his forehead Continue Reading
Klout, the company that calculates your individual influence score based on your engagement on various social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, feels stagnant. To make matters worse, last week TechCrunch reported that LinkedIn’s new endorsements feature is kicking serious butt. From the article: “Today, LinkedIn is announcing that Endorsements Continue Reading
Google Reader is my most beloved Google app and I thought they’d never shut it down. It is endlessly useful, I would pay for it, and now it is going to be gone. Yes, I know there are probably tons of alternatives, but I love my Google Reader setup exactly Continue Reading
I’ve got more than 250 drafts in here, so what would you like to hear about? Once you submit you can see the results in a pretty pie chart, and I will post the final outcome here as well. Loading poll…
My greatest fear as a startup founder isn’t to fail, it is to become a zombie startup.
Hacker News has been down for scheduled maintenance (which is running a bit longer than the Internet expected) for about 5 hours now, based on PG’s tweet: Apologies for the HN outage.We think it may be related to the new server.This could take a while to fix. — Paul Graham Continue Reading
Something has changed, permanently, in me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to express it, because the transformation has been so interesting, unexpected, and meaningful to me. If you are a first time founder, or planning to be, this might resonate. I’d love to know if you’ve had a Continue Reading
This post is part of a series called “Playlist” where I post songs I find meaningful in life and entrepreneurship. If you like this I hope you will check out the other posts. Yet another with less than 10,000 views on YouTube. If you like it spread the word. American Continue Reading