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Re: Airport Taxis Move To Natural Gas

daryn — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:43:24 -0000

"Is there a reason the Port didn't just buy Civics?"

umm, perhaps b/c that'd be a damm small taxi?

Re: Geography

daryn — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:01:05 -0000

From an entrepreneur's stand, I also agree with the importance of geography.

We are currently seeking seed funding, and have had a lot of interest from local investors here in Seattle. We could easily fund our round locally, however, we've been seeking out Bay Area investors.

Why? Simply because of their proximity to other aligned interests. Seattle has the money, and it has a good community of resources for sure, but it is also a small town. We see a bay area investment as our gateway into a much richer pool that we could possible find in our own backyard. I'm more than willing to make the 2.5 hour flight every week or two to make it work.

You, as the VC, likely don't have the bandwidth to lose those hours travelling across the country/globe to each investment. And it'd be a big mistake, I think, to work with a company where you may not get the level of communication that is needed to make things work.

However, as a founder, who's sole interest is in making my company succeed, I would certainly travel cross-country on a regular basis to meet with the right advisor/investor. (And wouldn't even think about making a geographically-distant relationship if I didn't think it had that amount of added value to it.)

Re: Geography

daryn — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:01:05 -0000

From an entrepreneur's stand, I also agree with the importance of geography.

We are currently seeking seed funding, and have had a lot of interest from local investors here in Seattle. We could easily fund our round locally, however, we've been seeking out Bay Area investors.

Re: Geography

daryn — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:01:05 -0000

From an entrepreneur's stand, I also agree with the importance of geography.

We are currently seeking seed funding, and have had a lot of interest from local investors here in Seattle. We could easily fund our round locally, however, we've been seeking out Bay Area investors.

Re: Why We Don’t Invest In Competitive Businesses

daryn — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:19:01 -0000

Competing companies are often taking different approaches to filling the same need. If you believe that the need has to be filled, and that one of two competitors is going to be the one to do it, why not hedge your bet?

This is strictly money-speaking though. I understand the complexities and conflicts of actually managing the relationships, and I could make some really bad analogy to an open marriage I'm sure, but I won't!

Re: Why We Don’t Invest In Competitive Businesses

daryn — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:19:01 -0000

Re: Why We Don't Invest In Competitive Businesses

daryn — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:19:01 -0000

Re: Our Generation

daryn — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:04:58 -0000

"The kids are alright." I don't have kids myself, but I admire your relationship with your own.

I actually liked a lot of my parents' music growing up, mostly oldies, in addition to my own angsty alt-rock, but we never really talked about it. I don't know if it's because it wasn't cool for me to admit it, or because it wasn't new for them, but apparently there just wasn't anything to say.

They were happy to let me blast whatever I wanted,but they never asked about it, except perhaps to question the value of some of the more egregiously offensive stuff (like bodycount or 2 live crew.. lol, i question it myself).

They did encourage our passion for music though, letting me go to lots of shows from an early age, and taking music lessons / having band practices in the garage, there just wasn't the same connect. I hope I have it with the (someday) kids..

Re: Ay Caramba

daryn — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:57:00 -0000

There\'s a thread about it on chowhound: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/377646

Re: Rock’s Greatest Covers: Patti Tops the List

daryn — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:14:33 -0000

There's a Vox group of peoples' favorite covers at http://covers.groups.vox.com/

Re: Start Your Own Label

daryn — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:46:00 -0000

We did myjones cream soda bottles for our wedding favors a couple years ago. They turned out awesome, and everyone loved them.

Re: Uwajiwhat: Thai Basil (the less-than-holy kind)

daryn — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:13:54 -0000

they sell basil seed drinks at uwajimaya (and all the other grocery stores in that part of town). It's in cans, and if there aren't any cold ones by the ice tea and ice coffee cans, check by the grass jelly drinks.

Re: New Upscale Coffee Shop in the CD

daryn — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:24:00 -0000

The coffee is delicious, and the place is less than a block from my bus stop, so a nice way to start the morning commute. The first time I went there, 2 americanos and a croissant were $14, but I think it was a mistake because it\'s been normal prices since then..

Re: Why+Silverlight+Is%26nbsp%3BImportant

daryn — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:06:11 -0000

Silverlight looks like great technology, but that is by no means a guarantee of success.

I don't think it's an either/or in regards to flash or silverlight. Each will have it's place. Silverlight's video may certainly overtake flash video, just like flash overtook Real and MS's earlier streaming formats. However, there is a lot more to flash than video, and that stuff is still at least one generation ahead of what is in silverlight.

As far as the amazed, "ms just handed adobe their ass", response? .. You were at MIX (a microsoft-run conference) for crying out loud. I'm sure the adobe fanboys will feeling the same way after the keynotes at Adobe MAX.

Re: At last, unlimited Joost invites to give away!

daryn — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:23:35 -0000

Hi, can I get an invite? Thanks!

Re: At last, unlimited Joost invites to give away!

daryn — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:27:31 -0000

Wow, that was FAST :) Thanks again!!

Re: Third Tutta Bella, With a Wine Bar, to Open in South Lake Union

daryn — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:34:00 -0000

I think you mis-read the press release. It says Woodinville Wine Village (not \"valley\"), which is a big residential and retail development they\'re building up there..

Re: I’m Joining Adobe

daryn — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:38:15 -0000

Happy belated congratulations Ryan!

If you ever want to come back to the development world, you know where to find us. :)

Re: been busy having a new baby boy!

daryn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:44:26 -0000

Congratulations!

Re: Web Companies in Seattle

daryn — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:45:13 -0000

And, of course, us.. (Eyejot!)

There are a lot of startups in town, checkout the list Marcelo from Sampa maintains here: http://seattle20.sampasite....

There aren't nearly as many web events here as in SF, but you picked a good week. Adobe's On Air bus tour starts in Seattle tomorrow at Elysian Fields near the stadium, and Zillow is hosting a lunch 2.0 on wednesday.

Re: I’m leaving NYC in 41 Days

daryn — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:28:18 -0000

If you make it up to Seattle in your travels, give me a shout.. good luck!

Re: winer’s on to something here – open source feedburner that is

daryn — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:28:58 -0000

of course it's worthless after the fact, but if you had setup your feed to be served from your own domain using feedburner's "mybrand" feature (or through other trickery), switching would be easy and you wouldn't lose anyone by migrating away.

Re: Learning to Make Door Desks

daryn — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:54:15 -0000

Very nice.

We're sporting ikea over here, but i miss my good ol' door desk.

Re: Time For The Blackberry/iPhone Shootout

daryn — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:20:53 -0000

if bijan wins, i'm buying an iphone.

Re: AIR

daryn — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:11:48 -0000

It is a very interesting area, and my 2 cents is that Adobe has done a great job positioning themselves with the 1.0 release of AIR.

From a web developer's standpoint, it is incredibly easy to develop for, and is really powerful; with access to the local filesystem, offline support, etc.. also, there are so many developers that know flash/flex or html/javascript, and IMHO, it's much easier to work with than xulrunner or google gears (and different as well).

The runtime installs will happen over time.. It's hard to say develop solely for AIR right now (it's not even out of beta), but within a year there will be a sizable install base. If adobe can integrate AIR runtime installing somehow into the flash player install, that would be awesome (player 9 got to 90%+ installation base in just over 6 months), although I'm not convinces it's a good idea yet, and it's still a 5-10MB download.

We have a Adobe Flex-based website, and a desktop client written in AIR is definitely on our roadmap. The initial release doesn't support everything we'd need to make it truly worthwhile, but I'm very excitied about once it does!

If you want to know more about AIR, you should check out the onAir bus tour. They'll be in NYC on September 24th: http://onair.adobe.com/sche.... Plus, the adobe guys are a great bunch..