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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
whaaaat? how could a $590 million acquisition bust of Flip camera still be a win for Cisco? before, i share my insane thinking on this topic let me say, i am/was -whatever — a huge fan of flip cameras; i’ve owned three over my lifetime. my wife and i have recorded hours and hours more on our [...]
it’s pretty obvious that consumer data is getting bigger. how big and how fast? average consumer is quickly moving toward 100 GB threshold, but once past growth is anywhere between 1-2.5 GB a month. similar growth patterns were seen w/ the advent of mp3′s and napster; luckily harddrive density growth exceeded the need of even [...]
mozy recently killed their unlimited storage pricing plan and replaced it w/ a pay per GB model (125 GB’s for $9.99 a month and $2 more for each additional 20 GB). no doubt this was an attempt to make users w/ more than 100 GB of data pay their share. 100 GB’s doesn’t sound like [...]
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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this was passed on by a friend, it’s an interesting way to either get your homepage viral, entertain new viewers or annoy a customer on a mission. Checkout HEMA’s page … you’ll need to let it load. i don’t think backcountry.com will be ascribing to this anytime soon addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clintgc.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2Fa-little-homepage-fun-from-hema%2F’; addthis_title = ‘a+little+homepage+fun+from+HEMA+%26%238230%3B’; addthis_pub [...]
two weeks into the new gig @backccountry.com and like any new opportunity i’m getting to know new faces, a new culture and some new technology. maybe i should use the word “different” instead of “new”. is ecommerce new technology?
