From the monthly archives:

July 2007

Tomorrow morning I board a plane at 8:30am for San Francisco. It’s my first visit there.
I missed the TechCrunch Party but my Standout Jobs co-Founders made it.
And it looks like Fred and Austin had a great time.
Fred was on Ustream.tv, but apparently the sound wasn’t very good. Oh well!
I’ll be in San Francisco until [...]

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Whether we like it or not, email is still the primary mode of communication online. That’s not going to change any time soon.
We’ve got instant messenger, Twitter, Skype, message boards, project management tools, messaging applications, etc. The list of ways to communicate online is endless.
But email still rules the day. And it still works.
Of course, [...]

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How Big A Beach Are You?

July 24, 2007

Lots of people love the beach.
Tall people. Short people. Fat people. Skinny people. Bronzed beyond George Hamilton people. Deathly pale people.
There’s just something about stripping down to the bare necessities and letting it all hang out. The interesting thing about the beach is that no one seems self-conscious. It’s rarely flattering and in some cases [...]

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When raising money from venture capitalists or angels, you’ll want to meet as many as possible. They won’t all invest, but each time you pitch, you get better. Each time you pitch, you get asked different questions, get different opinions and ideas. It’s worth it to pitch as many people as you can, as often [...]

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If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck…guess what, it’s a duck.
A blog is a blog is a blog.
Not quite the same analogy, but you get the point.
Jakob Nielsen suggests that people write articles not blog posts. He differentiates them by saying that blog posts are often, “…quickly [...]

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