Startup – by the numbers

Another great find From Fred Wilson (via Guy Kawasaki) Glen Kelman from Redfin posted a bunch of stats (mostly shown per employee) about the costs of a startup. I know Glen and he has a great blend of smarts, humility and startup success, since he founded Plumtree and took them

Trying to figure out this blogging thing…

While I am certainly new to blogging, I have been giving some thought as to how to make it all a success. In addition, some of my consulting clients have asked me how to approach blogging, so I took a little time and put together a cookbook. I assume there

Mental Links – made by listening to Last.fm

Funny how connections happen. One of my favorite artists is Bob Mould, who penned the song Dog on Fire, which was played by another one of my favorite bands They Might Be Giants which is now the theme song of one of my favorite shows, The Daily Show. Ok, it

I did think of that…

I thought of this idea a few years back and never acted on it. I am happy that someone did it. Comparitive pricing for airport parking  http://www.aboutairportparking.com/seatac-seattle-tacoma-international-airport-parking

What will I read on the bus now?

I just found out that Business 2.0 is dead and I am sad. I, like Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, read only a few magazines including Fast Company, Wired and Business 2.0. I really like the articles in Business 2.0 because they usually dense with data, timely and

Always something new

I have been reading Fred Wilson’s blog religelously for the past few weeks. He is a VC at Union Square Ventures in New York and has invested in some of the coolest and most successful Web2.0 companies including Tacoda and Delicious. If you want to think hard about

Twitter API Traffic is 10x Twitter’s Site

Very interesting to see that Twitter is getting so much more traffic from the API vs. normal site. Twitter API Traffic is 10x Twitter’s Site: “Biz Stone: Yeah. The API has been arguably the most important, or maybe even inarguably, the most important thing we’ve done with Twitter.

Facebook Developer Event

So my good friend Adam Loving and I held the first Facebook Developer event last night at CHAC. Despite some challenges with AV the event went really well. We had over 100 people there including 4 Facebook employees who flew up to help us out. Adam spent some time talking

Venues for events

Adam and I are planning a developer meet-up for the Facebook API. The guys at Facebook are likely to fly up and given the interest around here, it should be great. We have been researching local meeting spaces up here in Seattle and I thought I would share the results.

ouch, my calves hurt – Mountians to Sound relay

My brother Rob and I did the Mountains to Sound relay last weekend for the second year. This is a really fun, point-to-point race that covers 100 miles in one day, combining mountain biking, road biking, kayaking and running. Last year, it was over 90 degrees, but this year it