Originally published as a guest post on TechCrunch Europe. I’ve been in London for only a short period but I’ve already met with dozens of people from the various corners of the local start-up scene. It’s clear the ingredients necessary to build a thriving startup community are in place. Sparks Continue Reading
Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt Day #1 I didn’t “get” Do@, and I think this was mostly because I was put off by the graffiti branding. Â Not sure why, just a personal preference, but its amazing how powerful that first impression is. Â Then, I found out Cathy Brooks is leading marketing Continue Reading
Live TV : Ustream In less than an hour, teams from the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon will begin presenting their apps and they will have just 60 seconds each to make the judges (and audience) fall in love with what they’ve built. Â There are several outcomes to optimize for during your Continue Reading
I’m excited for my hubby, tonight his app TextWeight… which he just launched this morning, is on the front page of TechCrunch. It’s a really simple app. Â You sign up with your phone number, and each morning you get a text asking you your weight that day. Â For me, I Continue Reading
Congratulations to TechCrunch, who announced yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt that they have been acquired by AOL. I’ve been reading TechCrunch since before I knew I was going to do startups. Â It all started because my friend Blake Scholl was doing a startup, and I set up Google Reader to track Continue Reading
Wait… what? This quote from Steve Blank (which I realize is taken out of context, but such is the nature of Twitter, I’m not sure where he was speaking today) definitely rubs the marketer in me the wrong way. Â Why would you ever want to exclude marketing and sales folks Continue Reading
My beloved side project TweetToCall recently turned one year old, and I’ve been procrastinating on re-styling it to look more like a Web 2.0 service and less like a weekend project. Â This post on TechCrunch tonight about the death of phone numbers motivated me to give it an hour of Continue Reading
Update: No, it isn’t TweetToCall – although I love that project (yes, it still works and has a few thousand users now) and do think Twitter is going to become the new phone book. TweetToCall should be a feature of Twitter, and if anyone wants the code etc. I should Continue Reading
As I make the move to the Bay Area, dealing with my “stuff” is a big thing. Going from a 4,000 square foot house to a 10′ by 12′ room in a friend’s apartment has been an adjustment both physically and mentally. But more interestingly, its lead me to reflect Continue Reading
I love when I can finally talk about something secret that I’ve been working on. Yesterday we launched Twilio SMS, a new API that makes it ridiculously simple (or as someone on Twitter said, “stupidly simple”) to send/receive text messages from Twilio numbers. Here is the screencast we made to Continue Reading