I’ve been out of college for a year and a half now (has it been that much/little?). I’ve been paying serious attention to the future, and more importantly, how I should approach my career. One of Marc Andreessen‘s blog posts has been the most influential and eye opening. Instead of the “if you had a million dollars”, “ten year plans” and other assorted...
After considering it for a while, I decided to give my DC Metro Times checker it’s very own website! Everyone welcome getmetrotimes.com ! GetMetroTimes.com is a FREE service that allows you to quickly and easily check when the next metro train is arriving at your nearest station. You can check it online, or on your cell phone with just a quick text message! We charge you absolutely nothing...
I woke up early (5 AM) to work at a soup kitchen on Christmas Day. I love driving around on Christmas day, because the streets are empty. I stopped at a Starbucks (shocked that they were open), and was able to park (an amazing feat itself) and then stroll across one of the busiest streets in DC, without a single car around. Was way too dark at 5 AM, but here are some pictures from around 9. 16th...
Early stage incubators are hot now. A couple months ago LaunchBox Digital was announced. Now a new one is launching in the mid-Atlantic area. Hello DreamIt Ventures! Modeled on organizations such as Y Combinator in Silicon Valley and Boston, and TechStars in Boulder, Colo., it plans to raise a fund of $350,000 to $500,000 to provide eight to 12 teams of entrepreneurs with money and assistance to...
Daft Punk – Alive 2007
Wish I was there.
Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook just pointed out that you can now separate all your Facebook friends out into groups. It can be used to send out mass messages and event invitations. But…. I think they are missing the main point of segmenting your friends: privacy. In my mind, the whole reason for being able to put people into groups is so you can control what each group of people see. I...
As I mentioned in a previous post, new avenues of communication complement, not replace, older methods of communication. There are a ton of ways to get in touch with me. How do you choose which one to contact for each person? My idea? Create a system where you can sign up for a special e-mail address that connects to all your different social media accounts. Any e-mail to that address will get...
“The trouble with the first time entrepreneur is that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. After a failure he does know what he doesn’t know and can beat the hell out of people who still have to learn.”
Via VC Confidential
I’m not a networker. I’ll give you a second to get over the shock. I’ve always operated under the impression that in the technical world, doing great work far outweighs who you know and who knows you, and that “networking” is left to the business types. In the corporate world, this holds true. You do good work, you get promoted (most of the time). Any time the word...
I heard some rumors over the weekend, and now TechCrunch is reporting that CompUSA is shutting down. Good. They shut down the store nearest me in Maryland a while back. It was replaced by a Micro Center, a chain I had never heard of. To put it simply, they nailed it. A haven for both geeks and non-geeks. The place is clean, and well stocked with anything you would ever need. The staff is helpful...