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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 
TechCruch50 Program - Get more Information Technology
I’ll be giving updates [...]

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 [...]

Starting a Business

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about starting businesses, helping people start businesses, and trying to start my own.
When I was 7 years old I started my first business - “Loans Incorporated” - it went like this….
I never got an allowance, but for some reason I got an obscene amount of lunch money, [...]