Category Archives: startups

THREE reasons NOT to invest in our startup!

we’ve been paying ourselves for almost two months now (that’s a fancy way of saying we’ve not been paid).  we’ve been splitting our time between building our product and pitching investors from Boston to Palo Alto. we’ve come by plane, car and maybe soon train. we’ve slept on couches and love sacks in Palo Alto [...]

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space mOnkey and first 24hrs on AngelList

i’ve been messing around w/ a space mOnkey profile on angel list for a few months. of course the common debate is how much value is it really going to bring? my network is coming up w/ great introductions, do i really need more? but secretly the real concern, will anyone freaking care about my [...]

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iCloud != Primary Storage

Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy … We have a great solution for this problem. We are going to demote the PC to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the centre of your digital life, into the cloud. -Steve Jobs, WWDC 2011 for apple-fan-boyz-worldwide this was [...]

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marketing & vomit

good marketing is hard to find and in general most technology marketing makes me want to vomit. junk mail, landing pages that lead to signup pages, lots of text, white papers, flash animations, SEM & SEO. did i miss anything?  i’m not alone either, brad feld vomits a little in his mouth every time he [...]

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