Last Friday afternoon (not the best moment for a PR break, but I’ll take what I can get), Mashable posted a generous review of Askablogr. I was curious to see what the mention would do to our traffic curve, and I thought you might be too. The graph above shows our traffic for the past continue…
Q: I know you are tech oriented. I seek invesment and feedback in something much different (exciting & cool however). Industry interest tells me I need to pursue the idea. Can you help? Posted by Daren A: Hi Daren, thanks for the question. I love working with entrepreneurs and helping them succeed, and I feel continue…
Q: Hi Chris, is there a community page where I can introduce myself and my blog? Or should I just “ask” around? 🙂 Posted by Lorenz van Gool A: Hi Lorenz, sorry if my previous question left this in doubt. I was thinking you would reply to my question with a little background about yourself continue…
A while back I did a series of post on Warren Buffet’s partner Charlie Munger and a compilation of his thoughts and speeches titled Poor Charlie’s Almanack; The Wit and Wisdom of Chares T. Munger. The longest of these was a condensation of Charlie’s speech on the Psychology of Human Misjudgement. (The shortest noted the continue…
As a partial explanation for my recent series of “Investment Thesis” posts, Andy and I are announcing today the formation of a new seed fund here in Seattle called Founders Co-op. I’ll be writing about it much more in the days to come, but between our site for the new fund and my investment thesis continue…
Q: Chris, what’s your twitter profile? That tends to be an easier way for me to keep track of active bloggers Posted by Daltonsbriefs A: I know this makes me a reactionary and luddite, but Twitter’s value prop just doesn’t resonate with me. Since you’ve asked I’ll go ahead and set up an account just continue…
Q: Chris, which of the three remaining candidates are you supporting for President? Posted by Daltonsbriefs A: Hi Daltonsbriefs and welcome to Askablogr! I see you’re a McCain supporter, and I’d like to say first that your man was my top pick among the Republican field. Kudos to the GOP for settling on a candidate continue…
Just before I left the office this afternoon I fired off a cheeky email about Askablogr to the folks at Mashable. They’d recently covered Guy Kawasaki’s new project, Alltop, with a focus on the fact that he’d “only” spent $10K to launch the product, which is $2,500 more than I’ve spent on Askablogr so far. continue…
Thanks to Mike Arrington for his timely post on Sequoia Capital’s Elements of Sustainable Companies. While my own list of investment heuristics is a little more modest in its ambitions, theirs covers many of the same topics while winning hands-down on brevity. My personal favorites from the list include: Rich CustomersTarget customers who will move continue…
Yesterday was Askablogr’s two-month birthday. I posted earlier this week about our recent styling changes (that’s our new logo to the left), but wanted to follow up with some stats and commentary about how things are going. First, some basic numbers for the two-month period: Registered members: 145 Questions asked: 239 AdSense revenue / eCPM: continue…