Great resources for Seattle start-ups

Marcelo Calbucci, the CEO of Sampa has just published this list of resources. He is one of the most active and thoughtful guys around town, working hard to make Seattle a great place to start and scale new companies. Thanks so much Marcelo.

Coffee and new forms of communication

I just had a coffee with my friend Robert Pease. He used to be the VP of Marketing at MessageGate, where we both worked and thought alot about communication, email and regulatory compliance. We both loved the first 2 topics and kinda hated the 3rd, but thought there was a

Startup – by the numbers

Another great find From Fred Wilson (via Guy Kawasaki) Glen Kelman from Redfin posted a bunch of stats (mostly shown per employee) about the costs of a startup. I know Glen and he has a great blend of smarts, humility and startup success, since he founded Plumtree and took them

Trying to figure out this blogging thing…

While I am certainly new to blogging, I have been giving some thought as to how to make it all a success. In addition, some of my consulting clients have asked me how to approach blogging, so I took a little time and put together a cookbook. I assume there

Mental Links – made by listening to Last.fm

Funny how connections happen. One of my favorite artists is Bob Mould, who penned the song Dog on Fire, which was played by another one of my favorite bands They Might Be Giants which is now the theme song of one of my favorite shows, The Daily Show. Ok, it

I did think of that…

I thought of this idea a few years back and never acted on it. I am happy that someone did it. Comparitive pricing for airport parking  http://www.aboutairportparking.com/seatac-seattle-tacoma-international-airport-parking

What will I read on the bus now?

I just found out that Business 2.0 is dead and I am sad. I, like Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, read only a few magazines including Fast Company, Wired and Business 2.0. I really like the articles in Business 2.0 because they usually dense with data, timely and

Always something new

I have been reading Fred Wilson’s blog religelously for the past few weeks. He is a VC at Union Square Ventures in New York and has invested in some of the coolest and most successful Web2.0 companies including Tacoda and Delicious. If you want to think hard about

Twitter API Traffic is 10x Twitter’s Site

Very interesting to see that Twitter is getting so much more traffic from the API vs. normal site. Twitter API Traffic is 10x Twitter’s Site: “Biz Stone: Yeah. The API has been arguably the most important, or maybe even inarguably, the most important thing we’ve done with Twitter.

Facebook Developer Event

So my good friend Adam Loving and I held the first Facebook Developer event last night at CHAC. Despite some challenges with AV the event went really well. We had over 100 people there including 4 Facebook employees who flew up to help us out. Adam spent some time talking