September 2009
45 posts
OK - I've got word that the Sharks/Cats thing is...
August 2009
36 posts
Please no more sharks and cats. Please. I'm...
“The whole entrepreneurial thing is that you kind of jump off a cliff and...”
– Reid Hoffman, as quoted by Jeff Bussgang in his new book, The VC Playbook (via fred-wilson)
Investor Group Makes Play For Skype →
This is great - I never really saw the fit for Skype inside of Ebay in the first place.
Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz, Index Ventures (who were early investors in Skype before the ebay acquisition), and one or more multi-billion dollar private equity firms.
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it...”
– Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)
Boeing invented a fucking 42% efficient solar... →
pantsblog:
Holy fuck. That’s up from 22%.
Science. Fuck yea.
Review of the new Town Tavern in Uptown Charlotte... →
The NEW Town Tavern opened up this past weekend in the old Brick & Barrel space at the corner of Tryon Street and 5th Street. I walked by with the intention of stopping in on Friday night, only to find a line out the door - certainly something Brick & Barrel never enjoyed. I was with some friends and we didn’t feel like waiting, so I made a mental note to come back Saturday night...
Your secret's NOT safe with me.
whatthehale:
After DAYS of “liking” Bowls recent one-liner posts, I received the following “Thoughts of the Day” email from a friend. While I am unsure of the source of origin (seems like Aaron Karo’s Ruminations, but I could be wrong) I am now sure that Bowls is far less funny than previously assumed:
I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
More often than not, when someone...
“Who among us did not know this would happen? It’s been clear from the start that...”
– Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – The Health Care Bill Dies? - True/Slant (via robot-heart-politics)
My god, is this the same Matt Taibbi? The same one that wrote such a poorly researched and contrived article bashing Goldman Sachs? The same one that wimped out on debating Charlie Gasparino on Imus?
I...
WatchNoah Kagan speaks to a class at UC Berkeley. No, you’ve likely never heard of him - but he’s worked at Intel, Facebook and Mint.com, and now runs his own startup Kickflip, which makes micro-payment software for online games.
Noah also helped us out briefly at Groupvine several years ago.
Anyway, the speech is entertaining, funny and relevant. Check it out.
“I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically...”
– Matt Taibbi (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
“I say drink a fancy drink if you want to. Drink something served in half a...”
– Greg
How to use math to choose a wife →
The is clearly way oversimplifying the issue, but it’s still fun(ny) to think about
…so for a long time, mathematicians believed that, given 100 choices (each of which has to be chosen or discarded after the interview) you should discard the first 50 and then choose the next best one. (The assumption also is that if you don’t choose the first 99, you have to choose number 100,...
Seth's Blog: Free work vs. internships →
I think internships are overrated. Most of the time, the employer thinks he’s doing the intern a favor, but he doesn’t trust the interns to do any actual thoughtful, intelligent work worth talking about. And to be fair, most of the time the interns are busy hiding, not grabbing responsibility but instead acting like they’re in school, avoiding hard work and trying to get an A.
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Carolina Nightlife
Also, if you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m now writing the occasional article for Carolina Nightlife. I’ll be reposting them here, but be sure to checkout the Carolina Nightlife site for all kids of special events, pictures from bars around Charlotte and general coverage of the Charlotte nightlife scene.
Cans Bar is for Sale - Carolina Nightlife →
Rumor is that it is not only Cans Bar itself that is for sale - the entire building that houses Cans, Crave Dessert Bar, several other businesses and 30 or so parking spaces is on the block for $4.6 million.
Click through for the whole article.
A Study in Contrast →
armeck:
Given the debate over the legitimacy of protests against the Democratic agenda on health care, cap-and-trade, and the economy generally, I thought it might be instructive to look at how the last administration addressed protests against its policies.
Some examples from the article:
Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer on Anti-war protesters:
I think the president welcomes the...
“Everything that you want is always just beyond your comfort zone.”
– Anon.
“Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to...”
– Milton Friedman
Should Immigrants Get Government Backed Health Care?
Denial of Service Attacks Being Investigated by... →
Twitter, Facebook and Google all victims of a DDoS attack in the same morning? Wonder who’s behind this? (Pssst - Microsoft…heh).
5 things that should happen in real life as often...
mollybierman:
shamelessly pulled from ken-jennings.com
Poor people wearing barrels.
Drunks hiccuping.
Unsuccessful fishermen hooking boots.
Angry audiences throwing produce.
Elephants freaking out about mice. (Bonus points if the mice live in nice arch-shaped mouseholes.)
Keeping Momentum In Your Job Search →
An awesome article from Denise Palmieri, a recruiter with the Pinnacle Group, about how to stay motivated and find a job in a tough economy. It’s a good read, and applicable beyond job hunting to general organization when managing business relationships.
