InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. I’m sure we missed out on a number of great people, but the net effect is that everyone in the team is focused on the same mission.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

I think because we're a Hollywood town, people haven't taken it all that seriously. We'll even write a half a million check. What is a net loss for us, is when Sequoia or Benchmark flies down on their corporate jet, meets with a company, and tells them to relocate to Northern California. We're taking it seriously.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. Hubris might be an entertaining trait for an entrepreneur in a Hollywood movie. Hint: He was an entrepreneur. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. Part of the reason I always found presenting to people so compelling is that it forced me to put into writing (a PowerPoint deck) what I thought I knew about a topic. It’s just my writing style.

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