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APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad on blogging.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

The technically savvy reader, familiar with my attitude, has already figured out that I’ve read way too many raw logs. This malicious piece of code doesn’t obey robots.txt, and doesn’t cache results. That goes for HEAD requests just chasing for a 301/302/307 redirect response code and a “location&# header, too.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable. It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318