Q: So does the ask from a button really work? Posted by Craig Huizenga A: Hey Craig, looks like it does! This is a new feature that allows every Askablogr member to receive questions from their Askablogr profile page, in addition to the questions they receive through their blog widget. So if you wanto to continue…
Q: Chris: When I responded to your question I somewhat expected it to show up on my blog as a post. That did not seem to happen. Am I doing something wrong or was a just offbase on the functionality? Posted by lance A: Hey Lance, if you completed the full install it should have. continue…
John’s easily the best local writer on the Seattle startup and early-stage investing scene, so I was very flattered to read the great piece he published on Askablogr this afternoon. I’ll do a full stats dump shortly but after a pretty quiet stretch the signup and visit numbers on the site are starting to pick continue…
Q: Chris,John Cook here at the P-I. I sent you an e-mail, but maybe this is the better way to chat. When did you launch the site? How do you plan to make money or is it a side project? Competitors? Posted by jcook A: Hi John, great to see you on Askablogr! I just continue…
I’ve been neglecting Askablogr lately (and the Urchin numbers show it), but Craig just sent me a note to say that we now support WordPress (in addition to our launch support of Blogger and TypePad). So all you WordPress users out there (and you know who you are), consider yourself invited…
A while back I promised to extract some nuggets from my recent holiday read of Poor Charlie’s Almanack; The Wit and Wisdom of Chares T. Munger. I started with the easy one, my favorite excerpts from Charlie’s Investment Principles Checklist, but my next project was to do the same with Talk Ten, “The Psychology of continue…
I just came across this interesting piece by John Markoff in today’s New York Times titled “Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley”. I grew up in Seattle but lived and worked in the Bay Area through the first Internet boom-bust cycle, and the idea of Seattle becoming more like Silicon Valley strikes me both as continue…
Barack Obama is speaking today at Key Arena, a stadium-sized venue and (current) home to the Seattle Sonics. The doors were scheduled to open at 11 this morning, and I picked up my wife around 10:30 to head over. All the roads leading to Seattle Center were jammed so we changed strategy and went downtown, continue…
Following up on my recent book review of Poor Charlie’s Almanack; The Wit and Wisdom of Chares T. Munger, below is an excerpt of some of my favorites from the Charlie Munger Investment Principles Checklist. The point of these isn’t their novelty (most of them should be familiar to you), but their fundamental soundness; as continue…
I received a link to this deck last fall via an email chain that included a long list of Seattle-area entrepreneurs and VCs. I’ve since passed it on by email to over a dozen people who were looking for ways to accelerate user adoption of (or engagement with) their Web application. I just sent it continue…