With The Band

Advertising has been one of the favorite (attempted) revenue sources for many startups, dating back to the Web 1.0. The general idea is, build something interesting that people will use, throw some ads (brokered through a third party), and just wait for the cash to come in.
This doesn’t work for me. Maybe that’s a bad […]

The conquistador Cortes provided a model for all intrepid souls….that
is to burn the boats on the shore and ensure no way back and the stark
need to make the expedition succeed or go down trying.
Inspirational post by Will Price. Made my day.

If someone has failed before he’s even more likely to invest - “It
makes them want to win even more,” he said. He generally doesn’t look
at business plans at all, and just invests in the individual.
I remember meeting Yossi Vardi when I was in Israel a couple years ago. Mike Arrington has a great writeup on […]

Besides giving some good advice, I couldn’t help but laugh while watching this.

I love israelis.

Since the Facebook Platform has been launched a number of months ago, allowing anyone to write an application that can interact with Facebook users in any number of ways, thousands of such applications have been released. While many startups are forming (and existing ones) focusing solely on Facebook applications, a viable business model for a […]

Besides riding to the top of here, watching these guys win an unwinnable game, and having a crap-ton of fun here, I still managed to code an extraordinary amount. Wrote a Facebook application (I’ll talk about talk about that eventually), came up with a bunch of ideas for other ones (if I feel like spending […]

I spent hours looking for something like Metro Times (train times via text message), and couldn’t find anything. So after spending a good chunk of time coding up Metro Times and getting it to a finished state, I was sure I was offering something totally new. And then while writing the previous blog announcement, I […]

The past ten days have been very trying for me, but also very productive. Despite working an incredible amount of hours at my day job (and dealing with the stress and deadlines related to what is going on there), I have managed to maintain a steady pace of productivity. I decided to utilize all my […]

Ignite is another O’Reilly-branded conference that has been “made open” in that anyone can create one in their area. Like Barcamp, it is loosely organized, more meant as a place for like-minded folk to get together, network, and brainstorm rather than really learn.
BarcampDC was an incredible success… we might be looking to organize a DC […]

Another couple articles on Unit 8200, which I had talked about in a previous post.
Unit members are taught that there’s no such thing as “impossible,” while “no” is something temporary that can change by persistence and insistence, even if it’s the Unit commander himself who said “no.”
Billionaire Boot Camp [Subscription Required for Full Story :-(]The […]