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The Kids love this and so do I

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:20:47 -0700

The Kids love this and so do I

Unemployment

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:49:00 -0700

Opinion Freakonomics: Shocking Unemployment Numbers

By By Daniel Hamermesh Published: August 21, 2009

I don’t usually write about macro things. But a journalist asked me about the duration of unemployment, and I checked out how this recession compares to previous ones.
Read the rest of the article….

Nice morning in Healdsburg

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:18:35 -0700

Nice morning in Healdsburg

Yahoo BOSS Might Be Bigger Than Bing

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:40:44 -0700

Yahoo BOSS Might Be Bigger Than Bing:

And the API is good too…

By last May, Yahoo BOSS was serving up 30 million search queries a day. You can see the rapid growth in search volume in the chart above, which comes from a Technology Review

How Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon & Google Think About Big Data

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:04:26 -0700

How Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon & Google Think About Big Data:

Collectively, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and Google are rewriting the handbook for big data. Startups intending to reach these proportions must also change their thinking about data, and enterprises need this model for internal deployments as a way to retain an economic edge.The four leading web giants have designed systems from scratch, evidence that workloads have altered, business models are different, and economies have changed — all demanding a new approach.

Mobile is old, but new

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:11 -0700

Doing lots of thinking about the mobile web and how fast the market is moving. So many areas where you can innovate. 80% of the developing world uses the phone as their connection to the web, i’d say that’s a compelling stat to innovate toward.

alexch: Corrib Moving: We’re Very Enthusiastic! Twitpic - Share...

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:54:20 -0700

alexch:

Corrib Moving: We’re Very Enthusiastic!

Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter

RockMelt: Netscape's Andreessen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:43:05 -0700

RockMelt: Netscape's Andreessen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser

Tron Legacy

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:56:27 -0700

Tron Legacy

this guy has a cool style “what what”

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:04:00 -0700

this guy has a cool style “what what”

fred-wilson: sometimes its hard to be on the receiving end when...

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:05:41 -0700

fred-wilson:

sometimes its hard to be on the receiving end when you are always on the giving end

thegetdownguy:

(via marco)

Back

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:50:32 -0700

wow it’s been a busy copule of months, new baby, integration - again, and the FOG.

Need to start posting, lots of new stuff on the horizon. Stage1Capital is almost ready to take submissions for ideas to fund and already funded a few which are doing well.

Netbook

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:27:36 -0700

Just got a HP netbook Mini 1120NR, wiped the HP Ubuntu and running Ubuntu 8.10, so far so good and totally great form factor

Now this is cool

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:18:51 -0700

Now this is cool

Startups and the Valley

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:43:10 -0700

Just finished reading Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley over at GigaOM, seem’d to get a bunch of tweets from people who liked it. While it brought up the point that the VC model may be broken, the cracks are there, that does not equal the Bay Area Startup culture. I totally agree that you don’t need to be in the Valley to be successful, you do need some of the support that it offers. If that support is other places so-be-it, but VC does not equal success nor does it equal the death of the valley’s great track record for turning out amazing companies.

I say find the people first and the money can follow. As someone who did a decent exit of a non-VC backed company it goes to show that just because you’re in the valley doesn’t mean you need VC. I would however argue that you can’t discount the value of the Venture community in this ecosystem. Remember that the Venture Funds are there to make money, I’ve yet to see someone have a gun to their head before signing the term sheet. I think that like everything the market will correct some of the wild things that VC’s have done in the past, but remember that location isn’t as important as the team you put together and the goto market strategy.

LA Tomorrow

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:15:22 -0700

Not super psyched to do a one day trip to LA for meetings, down on the first flight back on the rush hour one.

Last Year this fish, this year baby! 2010 Montana’s Smith...

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:47:53 -0700

Last Year this fish, this year baby! 2010 Montana’s Smith River is calling.

TickerGraph

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:00:25 -0800

My friend over at TickerMine has a derivative project, TickerGraph which seems to be a real slam dunk. Imagine using some cool semantic web type technology in the actual news/reports of publicly traded companies mixed with quant type data on raw data. They can generate multiple pairs of stocks which move or are related to each other in a scary accurate way. Essentially they generate pairs, so if you have an idea about a company you can see multiple companies related to it through pure fundamental or statistical or a hybrid lens.

Thinking of investing to get the project up faster….

Great wine store

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:59:13 -0800

Great wine store:

I must say the email updates from K&L really make it easy to get great wine at good prices. They will give you the best wine under $10 or you can pickup a 1945 Mouton-Rothschild for $10,000

Guess I was wrong about the Dems and recovery

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:42:13 -0800

I thought the stimulus would have some impact, but it seems they are having a hard time keeping the story straight. The stock market doesn’t like it.