Archive for July, 2008

Is Michael Arrington Tyring to Be a Modern-Day Moses?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

After the August Capital TechCrunch Party, I hung out with Michael Arlington and some friends that weekend. We talked a lot about their bold new initiative to create an ulta thin, ultra large, ultra cool touch screen tablet that can be used for general internet browsing purposes.
I questioned Mike on a couple of [...]

Docstoc Giving Away Twiistup Tickets

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Twiistup is turning into THE so cal tech event you have to be at. Its a a venue for discovering new companies that show off their products/technology in typical LA fashion and an eclectic scene where Hollywood Geek meets Hollywood Chic - bringing out entrepreneurs, investors, stars and everyone inbetween.
Docstoc was on display at [...]

7 Super Tech CEOs Who Used to Be Lawyers

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

As a recent law school graduate (never practiced law), and a current CEO of a technology company, I have a deep appreciation for both the law and entrepreneurship (although the former clearly won out). I also know first hand that law school and lawyer-ing do not go hand in hand with risk taking, [...]

Web 2.0 Viral Videos

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Comedian Ben Glieb, put together a series of viral videos for us. Here are a few of my favorites. More to come in later posts. Big thanks to our good friends at GoPotato.tv for putting these together.
Some Like it Nasty

El Blogador

Hugh Law Degree

10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) - these are over-hyped in my opinion and few angel or venture investors will sign them, but always helpful to have one handy to bust out at parties.
LLC Operating Agreement - I put my first LLC together myself using this agreement. My advice is to hire an attorney, [...]

How the 7 Deadly Sins Could Lead the United States into a Depression, not Recession.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

There are some undeniable facts and historical trends that seriously indicate the economy is in much worse shape than most “experts” would have anyone believe. On top of that, throw in a dose of religious mythology and doom-saying, and we have the makings of how the seven deadly sins could lead the United States [...]

Chickipedia - Coolest Embed Object Ever

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I’m obviously a fan of the docstoc feature to embed documents, but this just kicks its ass. Rotating hot chics in an embed from Chickipedia, GAME OVER!
Random Chick - see more hot women
Click on the “Random Chick” button above to rotate the images.

Webkinz - A Great Example of Web 2.0 Supporting Product Sales

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

I just saw Webkinz a Ganz Website uploaded to docstoc (presentation embeded below), and I started looking into Webkinz. Who knew it was one of the most trafficked sites on the web (Alexa Ranking.)

The site’s traffic increased from around 300K unique visitors in 2006 to likely over 5M uniques/month today. I haven’t [...]

CA Hands Free Cell Phone Laws and Spoof

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Last weekend we went camping with my best friend Ben Gleib for his 30th bday (check out his new video site ComedyJuice). I drove up with his good buddy Skyler Stone who was the host of “Con” on Comedy Central and is starring with Danny Devito in the upcoming feature “House Broken“.
On our [...]

Convert VoiceMail to Text with PhoneTag

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

I was reading Arrington’s post “Think Before You Voicemail” and his thoughts on how voice mail should be an obsolete method of communication. I think he makes many good points in reference to professional communication, especially when its someone you don’t know well. I also think Mike is speaking more from his own [...]