Archive for the 'Stuff' Category

BestCovery - Find the Best of Everything

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Bestcovery, a new venture by Kamran Pourzanjani the co-founder and former CEO of PriceGrabber, was announced today on TechCrunch.
Kamran is one of the investors in docstoc and I’ve got to know him well and consider him a dear friend. I dig his concept of helping consumers find the best products through experts driven [...]

Venture Capital Presentation Spoof

Monday, October 13th, 2008

In light of all the recent economic events, many investors and venture capital firms have been sending warnings out to their portfolio companies about the difficulties that lie ahead. They have been advising entrepreneurs about the need to conserve cash and start making money as soon as possible. This presentation has [...]

Have Questions or Need Help on Your Business… Join Me for Dinner

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately from local aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners to get together. Since I’m running my own startup, I haven’t been able to respond as fast as I would like for all the meeting requests. So I’d like to try something new.
I’m inviting you to join me [...]

Memorable Presidential Debates

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Tonight was the Vice Presidential Debate for the 2008 Presidential Ticket between Senator Joseph Biden and Govenor Sarah Palin. Their performance aside, here are the Top 15 Presidential Debate Moments of the television recording era.
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Don’t Vote

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

A collection of Hollywood A-Listers show up to say Don’t Vote in reverse psychology 101 For my money, the best PSA I’ve ever seen (even slightly beats out “this is your brain on drugs”).

Common Excuses Why People Don’t Vote
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.