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…
I just got a call from the founder of a new consumer Web startup, and I found myself beating the same drum that I’ve been hammering on in other similar conversations recently: the more ambitious your vision, the more you need to “atomize” it. By atomize I mean find the most compact unit of value continue…
With a two-kid, two-career household, neither my wife nor I get much uninterrupted personal time, so one of the greatest luxuries of our recent weekend away was the ability to read not one but two books from cover to cover. As I mentioned last week, the first was Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams from My continue…
I had a great conversation this week with three other Seattle-area serial entrepreneurs and seed investors. Among the topics we covered were: what motivates talented people to join startups, and what kind of people are most likely to thrive in a startup environment. I’ll cover the first topic in another post, but in this one, continue…
Q: How did you come up with the idea for Askablogr? [mostly just testing the product – don’t need to answer!] Posted by rr A: Hi RR – thanks for the question (even if you’re just testing this will show you the process flow from end-to-end). The sequence went something like this: I sat down continue…
NOTE: If this is the first time you’ve read about Askablogr and want a little context, go here. NOTE 2: If you have a Blogger or TypePad blog and want to play along with my little Open Startup project, you can see the product and get the widget here. Now, on to the readout. My continue…
As I noted in a previous post, I’ve been a supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign since last summer, so I’m understandably excited to see his popularity accelerating as we approach nomination time. This past weekend I finally had a chance to sit down and read his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story continue…