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Re: http://www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/SIR/~ns0aC

calebelston — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:42:40 -0000

Nice

Re: Do You Yobongo For Fun Or To Make Serious Friends?

calebelston — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:06:07 -0000

Thoughtful post. We think that helping people create new connections is fundamentally important. Making new connections is also fun. They are not mutually exclusive.

Caleb
Co-founder & CEO
Yobongo

Re: The First Rule of Social Media Marketing

calebelston — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:02:30 -0000

I appreciate that Ken. Looking forward to having you as a Yobongo user soon!

Re: The First Rule of Social Media Marketing

calebelston — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:38:22 -0000

Caleb from Yobongo here.

I appreciate your thoughtful post. We agree that companies should be remarkable and give users a way to easily share their excitement on their own terms. We hate companies that ask for your account credentials only to post to your Facebook wall or tweet without your knowledge.

We do not intend to trick or mislead anyone. We have a very limited number of spots in the private beta (due to the way Apple allows developers to run betas). We wanted to give people who were most excited to try the app a way to get in faster.

Would be happy to chat offline if you have other concerns. You can email me directly, caleb at yobongo.com

Caleb

Re: Automated OTA iOS App Distribution

calebelston — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:24:03 -0000

Awesome

Re: Justin.tv VP Of Product Latest To Stream Out; Starts Stealth Mobile Sharing Startup, Yobongo

calebelston — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:41:41 -0000

I will miss you all as well. It has been incredible working at Justin.tv, I will miss coming in every day.

Re: Preview Trent Reznor’s Facebook Movie Soundtrack Tomorrow — Full Album Will Be $2.99 On Amazon

calebelston — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:44:56 -0000

Having just seen the movie, I can attest to it's quality. Aaron Sorkin's script is very tight.

Re: Wannabe angels: Watch the video of every speech from AngelConf

calebelston — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:26:47 -0000

Def worth a watch. Great talks.

Re: A good product is an exercise in exclusion

calebelston — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:46:58 -0000

Humbled my post fits with your thesis for 8020startup. Can't wait to read it.

Re: WeeSpaces.com Makes Inane Foursquare Check-ins Cool

calebelston — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:27:18 -0000

just did mine. Def pretty cool to see.

Re: Cinema+4d+Pencil+Icon

calebelston — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:39:39 -0000

Love it

Re: Delete feeds working again

calebelston — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:37:47 -0000

Testing twitter

Re: Why I Want to Work for Startups

calebelston — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:16:22 -0000

Let me know if I can help in any way! Love the passion.

Re: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur

calebelston — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:03:29 -0000

FYI: If anyone wants to watch the conference in its entirety we streamed it on Justin.tv and the archive can be found at http://www.justin.tv/ycombinator/videos

Re: Delete feeds working again

calebelston — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:25:06 -0000

Re: This Week in VC with Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures

calebelston — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:29:17 -0000

Been watching since the beginning, and the thing I want more of is and understanding of the guest's philosophy for investing. How do they evaluate deals, what has shaped that view, what qualities excite them most, how do they like to be pitched, what information do they most often feel is lacking in the pitches they hear. Really teasing out what drives their descison making more.

Re: KickPost Predicts Popular Posts for Top Tech News

calebelston — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:40:58 -0000

Been working on it a while :)

Re: KickPost Predicts Popular Posts for Top Tech News

calebelston — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:01:54 -0000

Louis strikes again! Just for context, Louis discovered my first project Toluu, 2 years ago, by noticing referral traffic of me testing it from his server logs. Louis knows how to find a story :)

Thanks for sharing with your readers. KickPost is super super beta, but I decided it was time to get more than a handful of people banging on it and providing feedback.

We are still tweaking the algorithm, and will continue to do so. The bulk of the site is actually hidden behind the scenes, where there is an uber dashboard that is used to create new training sets and run simulations on the stories that would be presented with a particular new algorithm: more weighting for comments or Bit.ly clicks for instance. We are also working to normalize the sources posting rate so that bloggers who don't post as voraciously as TechCrunch and Engadget can still make onto KickPost.

Would love any other feedback!

Re: This Week in VC with Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures

calebelston — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:51:09 -0000

Really like the new format, keep it up.

Re: The Suboptimal Large Series A

calebelston — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:06:35 -0000

Solid advice. It seems many people try to optimize for the current round, when they should be optimizing for long term success of the company. If you block out the potential for a solid up B round you are really screwing yourself, esp if your company isn't taking off like a rocket.

Re: It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are

calebelston — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:50:10 -0000

The ironic thing about the so called "seed fund bubble" is that less capital is actually being put to work then might normally be dispensed if the same companies were going for VC.

This is almost certainly good. As you mention, many of the best companies also have the opportunity for traditional VC, which means they weighed their options and chose a path of putting off VC for a while until they can get even better terms, or exit before needing many millions.

It's hard to argue credibly that there is a bubble when less capital is flowing into a system and at lower valuations.

Re: Heyzap raises $3M round for social game platform expansion

calebelston — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:08:39 -0000

Congrats!

Re: Builders and extractors

calebelston — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:20:30 -0000

The other great thing about partnering with builder angels and investors is they also tend to understand you need to create value for your customers before you try to extract it away from them as well. There's a reason Paul Graham's saying is "Build something people want" and not "Build something you can get people to pay you for". The first leads to the second, but the reverse is not always true.

Re: Here’s the New Digg [SCREENSHOTS]

calebelston — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:08:28 -0000

Quick note: Daniel Burka now works at Tiny Spec which is the company behind the forthcoming game http://glitch.com/

Re: Ping! Seesmic Expands Update Reach With Ping.fm Buy

calebelston — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:09:54 -0000

Smart move. Would have taken a lot of time to integrate with all of those networks, and getting such an active user base to start using Seesmic won't hurt either.