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Re: Fun Friday: How To Align A Business Model With A Market Position?

seeingfurther — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:36:05 -0000

Absolutely! Our startup is in this space and I often think it's foolish to have a million sentiment providers. Snap up the best tech in each vertical and call it "Powered by Twitter Insights". Brilliant.

Re: Why Do Apple iOS Mail and Calendar Apps Suck?

seeingfurther — Sat, 21 May 2016 10:43:32 -0000

I'll just leave this here for your Saturday morning chuckles. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Introducing Quackpad – simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack

seeingfurther — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:31:03 -0000

Ahh makes sense! We do this with Google Docs, but we're a small team. I can see how permission setting thousands of members would be a nightmare. Good work Nick.

Re: Introducing Quackpad – simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack

seeingfurther — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:05:52 -0000

Cool hack! How do you see this as different from sharing a Google docs link into slack?

Re: Burn Baby Burn

seeingfurther — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:29:22 -0000

Gulp. I will never play poker with you.

Re: Searching For A Better Way To Make Airline Reservations

seeingfurther — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:33:13 -0000

If you are willing to up your expenses, which it seems like you are, go with www.netjets.com/

Re: Video Of The Week: Aaron Swartz on SOPA

seeingfurther — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:43:44 -0000

Neither are jaywalkers or shop lifters but we don't indict them with federal grand juries, intimidate everyone that knows them into testifying against them, and threaten them with 50 years in prison & personal bankruptcy.

Re: Nobody Is Crying For You When You Are Worth Billions

seeingfurther — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:53:45 -0000

There is a great conversation on hacker news about how the tech media is somewhat to blame in its glorification of 'getting funded'. Maybe there's something the tech industry can do to turn the ship around, so to speak, on tech reporting?
http://news.ycombinator.com...

Re: You can do it alone

seeingfurther — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:16:12 -0000

You had your wife in both startups, and I don't mean she had your back, she ran the companies as a defacto founder. To quote her own blog... " I left publishing to start a business with my husband. We sold that company and we now run an online training company called Treehouse"

This is a little disingenuous. I guarantee if you didn't have Gillian this would be a different blog post.

Re: The Power of a Deadline

seeingfurther — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:55:16 -0000

Dude, you are awesome! Total inspiration to work harder, contribute to my community and self improve in all aspects of my life. Every time I read your stuff I'm so humbled and inspired!

Re: The Sad State of the Startup Pitch

seeingfurther — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:05:10 -0000

It's pretty clear that your method for sourcing pitch meetings is not working for you. I think a lot of VCs use the "crack our network" as a test of the entrepreneur and his/her ability to hustle. I find that thinking antiquated and perhaps there's room for OATV to revise their methodology in that light. I would never stroll into YC Demo day and bemoan the sad state of early stage valuation and at the same time know I'm doing nothing new to find and source deals. (hint: that's you) Try a YC data driven / application method and see where it gets you.... be the change you are looking for in the world Bryce. I would love to have scored a pitch meeting with OATV but guys like me can't be bothered to network all day just for the privilege of maybe meeting someone in your network to maybe score a meeting to maybe get another meeting to maybe get funding. No thanks, I'll tap my friends of friends network and build on shoestring budget, mind you it could have been faster and better with the help of pro VCs like you but the world is moving too fast to operate in the old VC way and eschew the fast YC method. That prospect should scare the shit out you because it's guys like me that come out of nowhere and change the world. Your job is to find me.

Re: Startups, Fix Your Blog Links

seeingfurther — Mon, 28 May 2012 18:19:29 -0000

Great post. This has always irked me too and although somewhat trivial in the grand scheme of things it was one of the first things I fixed on our own blog. http://blog.smogfarm.com/ I think the issue is that one would need to upgrade to a custom Wordpress CSS to make it happen and price conscious startups might pass on that expense.

Now if we could only find more time to actually blog!

Re: The junk science behind the ‘Twitter Hedge Fund’

seeingfurther — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:21:51 -0000

"And I don’t need a computer to tell me how people think about Christmas"

No you don't but it's the first step in determining what people think about the consumer confidence numbers and then observing the results in the market place.

Re: Finding Your Voice

seeingfurther — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:40:37 -0000

You had me at macaroon. ;-)

Re: Feature Friday: Techmeme

seeingfurther — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:33:26 -0000

These are expert and notable blogger opinions. Super useful to me as well.

Do you think it would be useful to have an app/site that used NLP to process mass opinions and feelings into a similar condensed newsfeed format? Imagine you could scan a similar list summarizing what people were angry about --> #SOPA, what people were scared about --> #Iran-closing-straits-of-hormuz or even East Coasters are happy about the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Those are just some fairly obvious examples but you can see where I'm going.

Re: Infoboom: Sentiment Analysis and the GOP Campaign: Takeaways for SMBs

seeingfurther — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:24:32 -0000

Very interesting article! We're working on real time crowd psychology indices at smogfarm.com Would love your feedback!

Re: Feature Friday: Offline Gmail

seeingfurther — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:50:24 -0000

I really love that your blog can go from hyper serious complex venture financing to anecdotes about daily life and things that work or don't work in your life. We can all relate to those things and I think it makes it much easier to truly digest the complex topics. It all works nicely together!

Re: Tech Writers In Denial: The Michael Arrington Case Study

seeingfurther — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:39:13 -0000

I'm not expert in journalistic ethics but it strikes me as quite hypocritical that the NY Times would call out Mike for being unethical when they themselves are investing in the same spaces they write about...

http://www.nytco.com/compan...

Re: Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

seeingfurther — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:50:21 -0000

Cool! Do you do the audio yourself?

Blog post!

Re: seeingfurthr_2.0

seeingfurther — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:07:13 -0000

That's either the creepiest... or the sweetest thing I've ever heard. ;-)

Re: seeingfurthr_2.0

seeingfurther — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:32:05 -0000

i'm not sure which is more disturbing.. your comment or the fact that this pic even remotely evokes Bino in your twisted synapses..

Re: I am rice

seeingfurther — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:55:03 -0000

I'm strong dollar advocate and in favor of massive banking system reform. However looking into this deeper, this chart is a pretty misleading argument. The difference between non-borrowed and borrowed is semantics. Check out this article

http://www.bloomberg.com/ap...

Re: seeingfurthr_2.0

seeingfurther — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:19:38 -0000

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