I’ve been doing a fair amount of research lately on tons of different sectors.  One I’ve taken a hard look at is online publishing, specifically online local news and journalism.  I’m also an avid reader of online publications with 200+ in my RSS reader, which I’ve been using since 2004.  To be honest, most of [...]

Eric Ries is often cited for his belief in developing the “Minimum Viable Product” in order to get to market as fast as possible, test some theories on whether it solves the core problem you’re aiming at, and iterate from there.  We did that with Ramamia and truly believe in it.   There’s a problem [...]

All Credit Goes To Dave McClure.  Wanted to grab these quotes before his Twitter stream had more posts added in, making them hard to find.  Following quotes were from Paul Graham’s talk at FBFund at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto: “one thing at YC we learned that determination matters FAR more than intelligence.” “we’ve learned [...]

I realized that you could see which domains did and didn’t use Google Apps (or at least signed up for it on that domain) by typing in: http://mail.google.com/a/companydomain.com .  Just replace companydomain.com with the domain name of the company you want to know about  I thought, wouldn’t it be funny if Microsoft used Google Apps? [...]

**Dear people from Draper Fisher Jurveston (DFJ) who frequently visit this post (multiple times a week and close to 50 times total according to my analytics)-  You should say hi via email.  Nope, not looking for funding or to “pitch” you.   I just enjoy talking to smart people who want to change the world, [...]