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Re: Xuqa on a roll, looking at offers, but may go it alone

carl rahn griffith — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:09:29 -0000

now, if you could merge this with www.suicidegirls.com you'd have quite a niche ...

Re: The VC’s litmus test: Does he want to be your VP of Sales?

carl rahn griffith — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:05:49 -0000

absolutely agree - a very pragmatic (and all too often overlooked) way of looking at a new business proposition and its feasibility.

Re: Zvents gets $7M (yikes) for Ajax events site

carl rahn griffith — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:12:36 -0000

would love to see the business plan/exit strategy ...

Re: Jaxtr finally launches, an easy way to phone

carl rahn griffith — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:48:13 -0000

i like the look of this. well executed.

Re: What is proper etiquette for VCs — fiddle with Blackberry or not?

carl rahn griffith — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:57:39 -0000

when a lack of understanding an idea is expressed by ridicule and/or apathy/dismissal as opposed to that good old fashioned thing, discussion and debate/thinking.

steak is more important than sizzle and a credible/profitable business plan is more important than an elevator pitch.

still, reading about yet another video clips web site receiving several million $s funding would seem to rather undermine that naive belief, i guess?

Re: What is proper etiquette for VCs — fiddle with Blackberry or not?

carl rahn griffith — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:51:56 -0000

when questioned regarding his lack of urgency regards replying to emails, a former colleague of mine used to say in response: "there is no such thing as an urgent email - if it was urgent you'd have called me."

Re: What is proper etiquette for VCs — fiddle with Blackberry or not?

carl rahn griffith — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:39:23 -0000

pen+paper.

radical, but problem solved.

Re: Ask the VC

carl rahn griffith — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:12:58 -0000

there's a typo in the hyperlink url for their web site, folks!

Re: The next Killer App?

carl rahn griffith — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:59:51 -0000

No RSS?

Re: How do we keep up?

carl rahn griffith — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:36:12 -0000

Aggregation of same-news feed-items of course compounds the problem (and I am guilty of that in my own blog/s and subsequent feeds generated) so one has to filter one's feeds accordingly to ensure minimal overlap; also, this is just the start - imagine what it will be like when more and more of our interests are delivered to us via RSS. However, by that time the readers will have improved accordingly, to be heuristic for example, I am sure. Still, it's a hell of a lot better than mindless web-surfing and ploughing through yet another HTML email, inbetween all the spam email and viruses, lame jokes forwarded on to you, etc, etc.

I haven't had more than a few days break since I really started using RSS in earnest, and as I receive an average of 350 feed items per 24hrs, it'll be interesting when I do take an extended break - I might miss that major bit of news I was looking for. Still, we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

As an aside, of that 350 feed items average per 24hrs (from some 50 feeds) I am getting an average of 5% of items of interest to me per 24hrs. So, there's lots of room for improvement, yet .... ;-)

What's the ratio for other people here? Will give us a good indicator of how much room for improvement we have.