Archive for September, 2008

Sarah Palin Swimsuit Photos

Sep 30, 2008 1 Comment by Jason Nazar

Sarah Palin Swimsuit Contest? Yep, this could very well be the next President of the United States of America (oh jee gosh golly well). Here are Sarah Palin Swimsuit Photos. I recently came across Andy Baio and his blog Waxy. You can see the full video of Sarah Palin in her Ms. Alaska swimsuit contest [...]

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Bailout Bill Text

Sep 28, 2008 4 Comments by Jason Nazar

Congress came to an agreement on the bailout plan over the weekend. Treasury Secretary Paulson and the Bush administration were pushing hard for a government mortgage bailout, where the Treasury would buy billions of dollars of bad mortgage debt in order to provide more solvency and liquidity for our country’s financial institutions. Here is the [...]

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The National Financial Crisis… and the One Sane Voice

Sep 26, 2008 4 Comments by Jason Nazar

The financial crisis in the US is going to get worse, much worse. The current crisis is largely due to the fact that there has been too much liquidity in the market. Basically the cost of money has been too cheap for too long, and that has lead to the overvaluing of assets and a [...]

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Digg Mixer Conversations

Sep 25, 2008 3 Comments

Digg put on a mixer last night in San Francisco for some CEOs and Heads of BD.  The event was organized by my friend Matt Van Horn, who did a fantastic job of bringing together an amazing collection of folks from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Dow Jones, Twitter, Linkedin, Motorola, and Docstoc.  (so proud [...]

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10 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Superheroes

Sep 23, 2008 30 Comments

What should the core values for our company be? Being a HUGE comic buff, I took this as the opportunity to frame our mission and values within the metaphor of an epic adventure. So here is the list of our core values, based on 10 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Superheros. (substitute “Superheros” for “Your [...]

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Moving From Beverly Hills to the Beach

Sep 21, 2008 8 Comments

So this will likely be the last week that the Docstoc Family spends in our “Beverly Hills” office.  We are unbelievably excited for the move, and personally these kind of changes are usually accompanied with twinge of sadness for me.   Docstoc’s “first” office was my living room, and a group of folks that would meet every [...]

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Pictures of the New Docstoc Office in Santa Monica

Sep 21, 2008 13 Comments

Reception as you walk in, complete with fish tank Waiting Area Back Corridor  Conference Room What may be our temporary game room From the back of the office facing the front overlooking 3rd street promenade Kitchen Area Did I mention we have our our showers  Oh, and a 3rd story roof deck all to ourselves overlooking [...]

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TechCrunch 50 Live

Sep 08, 2008 1 Comment

Last year we launched docstoc at the first ever TechCrunch40 conference.  It’s been a crazy year, a growing team, close to one million publicly shared documents, and two rounds of financing later we are back here again as guests watching the show this year. Here is the TechCrunch50 Program  TechCruch50 Program – Get more Information Technology I’ll [...]

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Christian the Lion Video

Sep 02, 2008 2 Comments

My oldest friend recently told me about this video on YouTube, I guess its been all over network television,and I didn’t even know. Guess that’s what happens when you get rid of your TVs. The Lion King had nothing on this guy.

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