Paul Graham, a blogger and early stage VC, has two great essays out on why startups form where they do. In How to Be Silicon Valley, he talks about what he thinks it takes for a city to become a startup hub. It’s a long essay, but here are my favorite excerpts: I think you only…
A gazillion people sent me the link to Isaac Garcia’s follow up post to the ‘The Good In Email (or Why Email Is Still The Most Adopted Collaboration Tool)’ article he blogged a few weeks ago (both were Slashdotted, so both got quite a bit of visibility). This post, titled ‘The Bad in Email (or Why We Need…
It’s no surprise to anyone in our industry that the email hosting world is a competitive place. I’ve mentioned before how competitive of a space it is, how the big boys can overshadow the market, and reasons why I believe we can survive (and win) with such thriving competition. But now, things are moving faster than even…
There is a lot happening on the Internet these days. As I’ve mentioned before, it feels like 1999 again with all of the startups launching, all of the M&A; activity taking place, and all of the big boys launching something new and cool every other day. With all of this type of stuff going on combined…
I recently started following a new blog authored by Guy Kawasaki, one of the more famous venture capitalists and author of several books on starting companies. Today he’s got a great post called Hindsights, which is a speech he gives to graduating high schools and colleges. The speech reflects back on the last 32 years of his life (he’s…
Although I’m not proud to admit it, I managed to lose my Blackberry on my first night in Las Vegas (I’m celebrating New Year’s out here in Sin City with some friends). Over the years my track record for losing cell phones hasn’t been stellar and as they get more expensive, it hurts that much…
Well here I am, officially starting my blog. I actually started this a few weeks ago, but didn’t really understand the point at first. But now I’m starting to get it. Blogs are quite a phenomenon and have hit the Internet with a boatload of steam. Bloggers are the new voice on the Internet and…
Although I just started my blog last week (officially), I moved all of my data from Blogger.com (a Google-owned company) to Six Apart (Typepad.com). I had been hearing a lot of buzz about Typepad lately. Then today I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about them. It turns out they were started by…
I started blogging several months ago, primarily because of the buzz around blogging and my desire to learn more about the technology. I had already started following some blogs and after getting feedback from others, I decided to give it a try. After a few weeks, I was hooked. People still ask me why I blog so…
RSS and blogging are two of the most-hyped buzz words in technology right now. Even if you’re someone like my mom, you’ve most likely heard of the terms “blog” and “blogger” even if you don’t know where or why. To put all of the buzz and hysteria to the side for a minute, I wanted…
After my blog map posting this morning, several people have asked me how I was able to stick HTML in a Typepad TypeList. We’ve tried this several times before and were never successful until we brought in one of our top hackers this morning. Knowing that we shouldn’t need a hacker to help stick HTML…
I recently started following a blog written by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. I read him primarily for his thoughts and references to The Long Tail, a term he apparently coined last year… and one that I’m trying to learn as much about as possible. In this post, Chris points to: Six reasons why he prefers good blogs…