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2026 · 10

09-08 184 Pull Requests and a Merge Button That Needed a Laptop
09-02 How I Work with Claude Code
08-28 What I Get Done Before Nine
08-15 How I Set Up Travel Mode
08-10 I Went to Italy for Two Weeks and Left My Laptop at Home
07-19 Hitting Restart on my Indoor Gardening
07-14 Brigadoon
07-13 Please Excuse My Navel Gazing
07-12 Counteracting Work Theater
07-11 Narrative Crisis

2025 · 2

12-04 Cooking With Claude
06-02 Caramelize Something on a Launch Day

2024 · 5

09-12 Summer 2024
06-16 Culinary Wanderlust for Body & Mind
04-26 Putting a Bow on My Birthday Month
04-22 Training the LLM in My Head
04-09 Getting Some Narrative Continuity

2023 · 3

2022 · 11

09-29 All Out of Dry Powder for the Year
09-09 Recapping Summer 2022
05-16 Nesting, Idling, Thriving
04-28 Everyday Dynamism
04-26 A Robot Wrote This Subject Line
03-19 Is It Time to Get Back In the Market Yet?
03-16 Peacetime Elle / Wartime Elle
02-14 Some Good Books I’m Reading
01-31 It's A Great Time to Start a Startup
01-22 I Go By Elle “El-ee” Now
01-18 I’ve Got Big Plans Heading Into 2022

2021 · 4

12-07 Refreshing My Learning Portfolio
09-10 A Chip and A Chair Archive
08-10 Can I Find My Next Great Investment by 2029?
08-04 It Lives!

2020 · 80

12-30 Backtesting a Cap-Weighted Approach to the ATAD Portfolio Archive
12-30 A Ticker A Day: Backtesting Cap-Weighting of the ATAD Portfolio Results Archive
12-28 A Ticker A Day: 2020 Year in Review Archive
12-28 A Ticker A Day: 2020 Year End Review Archive
12-28 Portfolio Methodology
11-25 Taking Inventory of 2020
11-07 A Ticker A Day: Autodesk Inc ($ADSK) Archive
10-28 Alliance Data Systems ($ADS) — A Ticker A Day Archive
10-23 Whoa Nelly... Hitting the Reset Button After Too Much Transacting in September
09-14 Clarifying Portfolio Strategy & Controls
09-01 A Ticker A Day - Aduro Biotech Inc. ($ADRO) Archive
08-26 A Ticker A Day: Developer Tools For Biopharmaceuticals? Archive
08-26 Developer Tools For Biopharmaceuticals? [A Ticker A Day] Archive
08-10 A Ticker A Day Company #57: Automatic Data Processing Inc. ($ADP) Archive
08-07 9 New Buys From the Bessemer Cloud Index Archive
07-30 Thank you Readers! 7 Months In, ATAD Portfolio is +63% and the Newsletter Generates $22K ARR
07-25 5 Phases Describing How the Recession Could Play Out for B2B SaaS — ATAD Weekend Edition
07-24 When Recent Stock Performance is a Distraction -- A Ticker A Day Archive
07-20 Taking Profits: Capturing +351% Return on my 2nd Sell Decision of the Year Archive
07-20 ATAD is +58.6% YTD and I’m Taking Profits on Another Position at +351% Archive
07-14 Archer Daniels Midland Company ($ADM) - A Ticker A Day Archive
07-14 Archer Daniels Midland ($ADM) - A Ticker A Day Archive
07-13 First Sell of the Year for ATAD Archive
07-05 A Ticker A Day Weekend Edition: Applying "Minimum Effective Dose" to My Investor Mindset
06-30 Analyzing $ADC, $ADES, $ADI, $ADIL + 2 Position Adds Archive
06-23 Investing in Ecosystem Players & Comps for a Large Private Investment Archive
06-17 Investing Where I've Spent Money In Person During the Pandemic
06-12 ATAD Analysis of 6 New Companies: $ACRS, $ACRX, $ACTG, $ACU, $ACY, $ADBE Archive
06-10 Introducing the ATAD Anti-Portfolio
05-27 A Ticker A Day: 3 New Companies Analyzed + 3 Position Updates Archive
05-27 A Ticker A Day: 3 Companies Analyzed + Position Building Buys in $MCD, $ACMR and $ABCB Archive
05-27 How Switching to Remote Work Can Double a Worker’s Effective Hourly Rate
05-26 Personal Projects I’m Enjoying
05-26 A Ticker A Day: 8 New Companies Analyzed + ATAD Portfolio +52% Archive
05-17 Weekend Edition: What is a Week End?
05-17 Links for Paying Subscribers Archive
05-13 A Ticker A Day: Is Everything Just Too Expensive Right Now? Archive
05-03 Nintendo ($NTDOY), Lyft ($LYFT) and a Timely Re-Reading of Atlas Shrugged Archive
04-29 A Ticker A Day: Arcosa Inc ($ACA) Archive
04-28 A Ticker A Day: Associated Capital Group ($AC) Archive
04-28 Last Week I Made 5 Investments in Products & Brands That Are Part of My Daily Life Archive
04-27 5 Investments in Products & Brands That Are Part of My Daily Life Archive
04-20 Your $15 Lunch Habit Could Be Costing You $400K of Retirement Savings
04-19 A Ticker A Day: +18% So Far in 2020, Noodling on Peloton, SpaceX and PAX Gold, and My Weekend Reading List Archive
04-07 A Ticker A Day: Portfolio Track Record + My Position Building Approach Archive
03-26 Fastly ($FSLY) - Part 6 of the Bessemer Cloud Index Series Archive
03-25 Anaplan ($PLAN) - Part 5 of the Bessemer Cloud Index Series Archive
03-24 Atlassian ($TEAM) - Part 4 of the Bessemer Cloud Index Series Archive
03-23 Part 3: Looking for Buying Opportunities in the Bessemer Cloud Index - DocuSign ($DOCU) Archive
03-20 Part 2: Looking for Buying Opportunities in the Bessemer Cloud Index Archive
03-19 Looking for Buying Opportunities in the Bessemer Cloud Index Archive
03-12 A Ticker A Day #22: Allegiance Bancshares Inc ($ABTX) Archive
03-12 Keeping You Regular, From Birth to Death ($ABT) Archive
03-10 A Ticker A Day #20: Arbor Realty Trust ($ABR) Archive
03-04 A Ticker A Day #19: Abiomed Inc ($ABMD) Archive
02-25 $ABM was started by a lone San Francisco window washer in 1909 Archive
02-18 "I Bought 1 Share of Tesla Stock" - A Ticker A Day #18: Tesla ($TSLA) Archive
02-06 A Ticker A Day #17: Asbury Automotive Group Inc ($ABG) Archive
02-06 A (Much More Interesting!) Ticker A Day #17: Asbury Automotive Group Inc ($ABG) Archive
01-28 A Ticker A Day #16: Abeona Therapeutics ($ABEO) Archive
01-27 A Ticker A Day #15: Ameris Bancorp ($ABCB) Archive
01-23 A Ticker A Day #14: AmerisourceBergen Corp. ($ABC) Archive
01-22 A Ticker A Day #13: AbbVie Inc ($ABBV) Archive
01-21 A Ticker A Day #12: Axon Enterprise Inc ($AAXN) Archive
01-20 A Ticker A Day #11: Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings ($AAWW) Archive
01-17 A Ticker A Day #10: American Assets Trust Inc. ($AAT) Archive
01-16 A Ticker A Day #9: Apple Inc. ($AAPL) Archive
01-15 A Ticker A Day #8: Advance Auto Parts ($AAP) Archive
01-14 A Ticker A Day #7: AAON Inc. ($AAON) Archive
01-13 A Ticker A Day #6: Aarons Inc ($AAN) Archive
01-12 A Ticker A Day - Weekend Edition: Casper ($CSPR)
01-10 A Ticker A Day #5: Altisource Asset Management ($AAMC) Archive
01-09 A Ticker A Day #4: American Airlines Group Inc. ($AAL) Archive
01-08 A Ticker A Day #3: AAC Holdings Inc ($AACH) Archive
01-07 A Ticker A Day #2: Alcoa Corporation ($AA) Archive
01-06 A Ticker A Day #1: Agilent Technologies ($A) Archive
01-05 How I'm Thinking About the Content of the Daily Newsletter [Podcast Test]
01-05 $A is for Agilent
01-04 Introducing “A Ticker A Day”
01-02 Results of Sam Altman’s 2015 “Bubble Talk” Bet

2019 · 8

08-03 Post-Startup Life: Reflecting on My First 18 Months Living in Denver
07-21 Building Your Life is the Creative Thing You’re Doing Right Now
07-02 I Will Be Mentoring at TechStars Denver This Summer
06-27 Deciding to Be Child Free
04-15 564 Pacific Ave.
02-18 What I Read: January 2019
01-19 Winter Beaches
01-09 Recapping 2018 and Setting Intentions for 2019

2018 · 12

2017 · 3

2016 · 3

2015 · 4

10-24 Request For Startup: Personal CRM for Grown-up Friendships
09-27 How to Network to Startup Investors
06-18 Monica for CEO
01-03 What I’d Like to Stop Doing in 2015

2014 · 6

2013 · 102

2012 · 26

12-18 Call the Shots & Stop Being So Nice
12-01 “Towering” by Seryn – with Incomplete Lyrics
12-01 Come Schlep with Me! Seeking Paid Content Intern at Referly
11-04 Accidental Startup Office Manager: Ordering Food
09-05 Startup Gangnam Style PREVIEW TRAILER
08-27 Scaling Myself
08-09 “Slow & Steady” by Of Monsters and Men
07-31 Post Launch Checklist: 10 Tasks Your Should Complete
07-01 Don’t Break the Chain
06-22 The First 100,000 Visits
06-21 Startup Metrics to Obsess Over
06-18 Geek Girl Haul: The Corner Store
06-11 Got 99 Competitors and Bit.ly is One
06-03 Don’t Waste a Single Moment
05-29 How I Earned $34.91 with Referly
05-28 Saying No
05-17 Timeline: Starting Referly Took Me Three Years
04-09 “Faking the Books” by Lali Puna
03-27 “Gold Guns Girls” by Metric
03-19 My Favorite Drink: The Kir Impérial
03-19 River
03-19 500 Details: The Process of Mentoring Startups
03-11 Close the Loop on Your SXSW Campaign & Leads in 5 Steps
02-28 How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit
02-28 California
02-03 Homesick

2011 · 18

12-22 Forbes 30 Under 30
11-04 More Mentorship: Springboard (Cambridge, UK)
11-03 Will Milo Yiannopoulos Shake Up European Startup Press?
10-15 What’s Saving Europe’s Startups?
10-04 MG is now a VC
10-01 London Bound
08-21 Hosting Office Hours Today 12pm – 2pm at L’Acajou
08-14 And Suddenly It Is August… Again
05-28 Epic Phone Purse
05-24 Doat.com aka Do@ is the Future of the Mobile Browser [TechCrunch Disrupt]
05-22 Tips for Your 60 Second TechCrunch Disrupt Demo
05-16 Sweet Disposition
04-07 500 Startups Demo Day – We Are #500Strong
03-28 Yobongo
01-14 I’m a Teens in Tech Incubator Mentor
01-05 Quora Questions/Answers Ratio is the New Following/Followers Ratio?
01-04 Goodbye Lazy December, Hello Busy January
01-02 TextWeight Launches to Help Track Weight Loss via SMS

2010 · 25

12-11 A Very Merry Weekend
12-07 Speaking About Money & Technology at TEDWomen Parisoma
09-29 Congratulations TechCrunch
09-09 Experimenting with Google Scribe
09-04 Startup Marketing: 2nd Class Citizen, 2nd Rate Results
08-28 TweetToCall is Becoming a More Social Phone Book
08-06 Music I Like This Week
08-01 Tons of Stubs, But No Posts
07-05 Objectivism: Simple Tactics to Get Started with Online Activism
07-04 Tips for Asking Good Questions After a Lecture at OCON
07-01 What the Heck is This #OCON Thing?
06-06 How I Built a Multi-User Door Buzzer for Our Apartment
05-29 Returning From a Week on the Road
05-23 Watching App Demos at TechCrunch Disrupt
05-16 iPad in the Wild: Shopping at Ikea
04-22 My Thoughts on LBS… Almost 3 Years Ago
04-17 Birthday Post: I’m 25 Years Old Today!
04-02 My Best Friend’s Wedding: The Startup
02-22 Hitting the Road Again
02-14 Reflecting on “Stuff”
02-10 We Launched – Check out Twilio SMS
01-30 Launching a New Blog: ConstraintMarketing.com
01-24 Ignite WordCamp Boston Videos
01-22 Wordcamp Boston is Tomorrow!
01-15 Time to Say Goodbye Seattle, Hello San Francisco

2009 · 58

12-28 Stuff I Built: Simple International Calling Card with Twilio
12-24 Get Out the Cameras, It’s Christmas With the Clarks
12-21 The Great SF Apartment Hunt Begins
12-19 Pictures from Our Tour of the Louvre
12-14 Why I Won’t Touch LBS with a Ten Foot Pole
12-10 The Real Future of Sex – Humans not Robots
12-10 Video From LeWeb 2009 Party
12-07 Handicapping LeWeb Startup Competition: First Impressions
12-06 5 Books for the Flight to LeWeb
12-06 Test Post from New Blog Home
11-20 SaaS, Supply Chain, PASCAL and Past Professional Lives
11-14 Danielle is now on JustinTV
11-09 Making Me Homesick Already! (Thanks Mark)
11-08 Is Landmark Forum a Cult? Part 2
11-06 Yep, It’s Porn – StreamHer.com Takes 2nd Place at Entepreneur Idol
11-04 What I Want From Location Based Apps? Facebook.
11-02 Are You the Next Entrepreneur Idol?
10-31 Building the Trick-or-Treat Hotline with Twilio
10-31 This Year’s Homemade Zombie Costume
09-10 Reflecting on Women 2.0 Startup Weekend
09-09 Twitter Accounts Suspended – Gov 2.0 Expo Related?
09-05 Just Like That – Twitter Makes Move to Cut Down on Automated Follower Scraping
09-05 What Were You Doing When…?
08-27 OMFG a Blog Post from Danielle!
07-28 Is Google Wave the End of Email?
07-17 Social Media Club Seattle – Summer Nights Rock!
07-15 Recap: Taste & Tweet #2 at El Gaucho Bellevue
07-12 To All My Friends Getting Married
07-06 Brian M. Westbrook – In Flight Safety
06-17 From the Vault: “Inflatable Bling” Pitch at SocialMediaCamp 2009
06-10 Who Needs Zeroes (on the keyboard) Anyway?
06-08 Fail Faster
06-02 Airport Security FAIL – Liquids in Manufacturer Bottles are Legit
05-30 We Are Now Approaching the Futurama
04-20 Celebrities Who Treat Twitter Like Broadcasting Medium Miss the Point
04-14 Crowdspring has a sense of humor!
04-13 Social Media Begins with Listening, Not Branding
04-10 Neophilia
04-08 Impressive Twitter.com Traffic in March
04-06 Startup Weekend SF or Bust!
04-03 This Disappearing World – David Gray
04-02 A Very Good Month for daniellemorrill.com
03-29 Kevin Is Leaving Microsoft
03-27 Twitter Tools I Can’t Live Without
03-23 John Galt is Smiling
03-21 Video Fun in Beijing
03-18 You Say Asterix, I Hear…
03-18 Adventures in China
03-12 Just tried out Sprout Builder – look what i made!
03-10 On the Road Again
03-07 Goodbye Whrrl, Hello World
02-26 Wantrepreneur? Just DO something.
02-23 Hello Video Blogging!
02-13 Time for Danielle 2.0
01-30 Going Mobile – China
01-05 Tribute to Startup Car
01-05 Let Me Upgrade You!
01-02 First Post in 2009 is… a parody?

2008 · 50

12-29 “If” by Rudyard Kipling
12-28 MostRecent.net Soft Launch – Community Driven News Portals
12-27 Holiday Adventures with the Clarks
12-25 My Goals for 2009
12-23 We Are All Inventors of Our Own Lives
12-22 Guess What? It Snowed at My House
12-19 A Slippery Ride, a Scary Ending
12-16 Who Exactly Are We Kidding?
12-11 Have You Forgotten How To Love Yourself?
12-10 Meg – My Uber Talented Lil’ Sister
12-06 Narcissism
12-01 Tech Events Updated at Seattle 2.0
10-29 Living Large by Living Small
10-18 It’s Official – I’m the Events Editor at Seattle 2.0
10-07 Soliloquy: the act of talking to oneself
09-29 Halloween Costume Ideas?
09-28 Do I Work For A Startup?
09-22 Am I an Entrepreneur?
09-18 Kevin is Headed to China – for 4 months!
09-02 Happiness is... Making a Human Connection
08-23 (I Am) Discovering Screencasting
08-22 Gnomedex: Really Amazing Speakers and Engaged Crowd
08-21 Rafe: My Partner in Crime
07-31 Sunny Mornings on the East Side
07-10 Are you on Whrrl yet?
06-26 You Attract What You Are
06-24 Generating Seed Content for Blogging
06-22 Book Recommendation: Marley & Me
06-19 How to Be a Great Landlord
06-19 Life Without a Mobile Phone
06-13 Contemplating BarCamp Seattle
06-03 Puppy Has Consumed Life-Sleep-Sanity
05-20 Puppy Coming Home Saturday
05-16 I Love My House
05-13 Mint.com - How Refreshing
05-11 Gift Cards Are The Way To Go
05-02 Go Play with Whrrl Right Now - New Features!!
04-29 Cardinal Rule of Blogging - Don't Stop
04-14 What will you do with KML?
04-13 UPS Paperless Invoice
03-29 General Gadget Excitement
03-28 Such a fun day at work! - Whrrl Release & WSJ Coverage
03-25 Detail Orientation: Broken Windows, Broken Business
03-23 the Ongoing Organization of My Life
03-20 RescueTime I Love You - You Make My Life Better
03-16 A Weekend of Food & Books
03-11 Whrrl Team at Pelago Express Excitement About iPhone SDK
03-07 Kleiner's iFund ($100MM) Money Goes to Services like Whrrl
02-25 Whrrl - Noise Pop 2008 Official Web and Mobile Sponsor
02-07 Whrrl Introduces Events -

2007 · 1

09-18 Pelago Day 2 - and other notes