Archive for September, 2008

Sarah Palin Swimsuit Photos

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

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 [...]

Bailout Bill Text

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

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 [...]

The National Financial Crisis… and the One Sane Voice

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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 [...]

Digg Mixer Conversations

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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 [...]

10 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Superheroes

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

A few weeks back I grabbed a drink with Sean Whitely, the VP of Operations for Slingshot Labs. He gave me some great advice on establishing “Core Values” for employees. His were: 1) We Get it Done 2) We Ask Questions 3)We Like Our Job [...]

Moving From Beverly Hills to the Beach

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

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 tuesday [...]

Pictures of the New Docstoc Office in Santa Monica

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

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 all of santa monica, the blue building is [...]

TechCrunch 50 Live

Monday, September 8th, 2008

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 
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I’ll be giving updates [...]

Announcing Docstoc MyDocs and Docstoc Sync

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Wanted to let everyone know about some great new features we just launched today. Docstoc MyDocs and Docstoc Sync.
Check out the below video to learn more:

Read more about this release over on TechCrunch.

Christian the Lion Video

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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.