Friday I wrote a post about why I returned the 3g iphone (it was reposted here, thanks SAI and innonate). The objective was really to outline the pitfalls of the iphone for other business oriented people considering buying it about to be pushed over the edge, but the end result was really just gathering [...]
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Published July 20th, 2008 in Mobile, Personal Tech and Uncategorized.Peer pressure: saving for the Kiva Fellows program
Published July 20th, 2008 in Uncategorized and personal.With a little inspiration from Predictably Irrational (a very basic book about behavioral economics) I decided I want to trick myself into following through on saving for a long term goal.
I want to participate in the Kiva Fellows Program.
What is this?
Kiva is a website by which anyone with a credit card can help provide microfinancing [...]
Why I paid for them (Apple/At&t) to take back my iphone 3G
Published July 18th, 2008 in Uncategorized.Lets cut to the chase, and get the details out of the way:
the good:
i love the new form factor
really surprised by how much I liked the keyboard(s)
the bad:
no copy/paste
no push email (fwding to a mobile.me account doesn’t count)
no email search
no google calendar sync
poor battery life
no google talk or blackberry messenger
slow software
If you couldn’t tell, I’ve [...]
Great TED talk by John Doerr, on how we’re not doing enough to save/protect our planet. He’s a Rice grad!
I’ve been really getting into reading the sunday ny times. Its a great way to discover new topics, and its generally pretty entertaining on a sunday afternoon, when trying to avoid a computer for the last day of the weekend.
In order to keep track of the things that caught my attention, I wanted to [...]
There’s a building tension between two travel sites that I currently use to manage my travel plans, Tripit and Dopplr. Tripit is going after the professional crowd (with a seemingly web1.0 approach) looking to manage their travel plans, while Dopplr works for travelers at large, as it provides strong tools for sharing travel plans. Here’s [...]
I havn’t seen anything (not that it wasn’t there) over the past week about donating to help out the victims of the Chinese earthquake crisis, so I did some snooping. With all the concerns of fraud, and just generally wanting to get my money to the most useful organizations, here’s what I found.
Good Magazine:
Buy a [...]
So I got a Kindle a couple of months ago, and I’ve finally got enough time to write about it.
The Kindle is confusing. It has a shocking amount of functionality, and its hard to see what Amazon was trying to focus on. Its a web browsing device, it could be a messaging device, its a [...]
So I’ve blogged a bit about CRM systems, and there’s one underlying complaint that I have across all of these CRM system; they were not built with a salesperson in mind!
If your job is to meet new people, get connected, sell your product, figure out whos important in the industry, get on the ground and get [...]
Profiling Angels: not an exact science
Published May 15th, 2008 in Uncategorized, angel investing and early stage investing.Over the past two years at Angelsoft I’ve seen a lot of confusion from entrepreneurs, service providers, and even VCs, about what or who an angel investor is. This confusion causes problems in the investment/fund raising process process because knowing your customer/audience is half the battle, so I wanted to take a second to [...]
