Archive for May, 2007

10 Random Thoughts

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Those girls in the True ads are just ridiculous. Do they think that I’ll think that I’ll meet a girl that looks like that if I click on their ad? Really? This works? What percentage of all Technorati searches are vanity searches? 98%? Speaking of vanity searches: If you’re building one of these million new [...]

Why I don’t want funding

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Almost everyone I talk to about my new startup asks me if I plan on trying to raise money. The answer is, not if I can avoid it. Allow me to try and explain why. A couple of months ago I went to a Y-Combinator sponsored “Startup School” at Stanford. It was a full day [...]

Living the startup life II

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

It’s been a couple of months since I last listed some observations about my new startup lifestyle and I thought I’d add a few more things to the list. Setting up the desk in front of the TV might have been a poor idea. Good help is hard to find when you can’t pay for [...]

A little bit of a lot is still a lot

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Call me crazy, but I seem to have a completely different reaction to this new Pew study than everyone else. When I saw that 30% of American’s were “Elite Tech Users” I practically jumped for joy. That’s a reasonably large percentage of a huge number of people. This study also says that 8% of American [...]