Archive for January, 2008
Seattle Entrepreneurs – Looking for extra income?
My girlfriend sent me this opportunity “as a new and creative way to augment my income since I now have a non-traditional work schedule.” She also added that since I had experienced malaria as a child, my prior experience would be an edge. Seattle researchers to pay volunteers to get malaria The Seattle Biomedical Research [...]
How to recruit in the age of social media…
There’s a great post on Redeye VC about targeting ads at employees of big Internet companies. While Josh Kopelman was focused on finding ex-employees interested in¬† starting a company, his approach (which is very clever and like most good ideas ‘duh-inducing’) strikes me as a great way for recently funded startups to find disgruntled developer [...]
Think Global
I just got back from a week-long trip to India and I was blown away¬† by how much growth the country is experiencing. The economy is booming and there’s opportunity everywhere. Infrastructure is straining to keep up – there’s traffic everywhere, airports are clogged, streets are crowded, there’s advertising everywhere you look – in short, [...]
Starting from scratch – it's different this time
I’ve been in and around startups for a while now but even though I’ve been at the ‘idea on paper’ stage for one of them, and have been a key part of the team at others, I’ve never been the final resting place for the proverbial buck. It’s different this time. The level of pressure, [...]