Jason Nazar’s Blog

In the world of blogging, twittering, anytime/everytime social media updates, personal brand building has become big online.  One great example is Shira Lazar.  She recently combined her personal website (that mostly focused on her hosting career) with her entertainment blog, and added in a dash of mashups and social media to launch the new ShiraLazar.com
Her [...]

I recently did an interview with Vince Thompson for the Dog and Pony Show on the BNET network. We talked about building out the largest repository of professional documents on docstoc, what its like to run a startup, and a little bit of self help entreprenerus (i used to be a motivational speaker [...]

Microsoft launched a new program today for startups called BizSpark. Apparently they are giving away lots of software and other services / products for upcoming technology startups that meet certain criteria, for more information check the Techcrunch Post.
You need to be referred into the program so I called up our good friends at [...]

Its election day! Obama has been ahead in most aggregate voting polls and electoral voting polls.  Here is what the pundits think of the electoral map today and how it will play out.  We’ll check back in tomorrow as a Monday Morning Quarterback to see how accurate they were in their election [...]

This evening I went to dinner with Neil Patel of ACS and David Niu of BuddyTV. We geeked out at Houston’s in Santa Monica and talked about everything from marketing tricks, to VC war stories, and email servers. Being a super smart Warton Grad and successful entrepreneur, David served up a variety of [...]

In honor of Halloween and our One Year Anniversary (launched 10/30/07), we’re putting on an open house at the Docstoc Office in Santa Monica, California.
We’ve recently moved into our new space , and we hope to see you all here.
Come join us for some treats and a few tricks. The office will be open [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]