February 2012
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“Don’t be a grin fucker. Stop the corporate bullshit when it hits your desk. ...”
– Mark Suster
January 2012
11 posts
@hannibalburess has the right idea
Hannibal Buress is one of my new favorite comedians. I was first introduced to him when he performed with Aziz Ansari in Boston . He is doing something interesting with his Twitter bio that I just noticed today when researching his next show in Boston (It’s Feb 24 at Great Scott).
Buress included the first 4 dates from his 2012 tour in his bio (screenshot above) - this is interesting...
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Setting aside risk, more launching own companies
There’s a nice article in Sunday’s edition of the Boston Herald about entrepreneurship.
GoodEatsFor.Me and I both get a nice shout out at the tail end of the article. Full text of the article is below (original link.) Thanks Jennifer!
Typically, it’s the entrepreneurs and the small- business owners who pull an economy out of a recession. But this one has been different.
Housing...
Character Study: A Sherpa Guide’s Trek From Mt.... →
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WatchThe Startups Promo Video #2 - Chris Huge playing a bad harmonica solo on ‘What Would You Say’ by DMB.
2011 in review: we accomplished a lot and have so...
Here’s a good roundup of what Mike and I worked on this year with our startup GoodEatsFor.Me. 2012 is going to be a huuuuge success! Stay tuned.
goodeatsforme:
It is customary to spend the tail end of every year reflecting on what has transpired over the past 12 months. Goal setting ensues once the 1st day of the new year arrives, with a focus on self improvement,...
December 2011
4 posts
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Merry Christmas
My former high school classmate Amy Chambers Cortright who is the Vicar at Christ Church Cathedral shared this status update on Facebook which included a prayer from the Book of Common Prayer earlier today and it resonated with me. There are a lot of people who are hurting right now and life seems so uncertain and foreboding - but we need to keep the Faith, keep calm and carry on. I have faith...
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November 2011
3 posts
“Corporations will be happy to skip advertising altogether, if they can go...”
– Gary Morgenthaler Explains Exactly How Siri Will Eat Google’s Lunch
There’s some resonance for me in this statement because I believe that transactions will be facilitated by targeted advertising. f you are able to facilitate - either from the corporation side or the consumer side (and there...
“Sci-fi stories are business plans in disguise.”
– Walter De Brouwer, CEO and founder of Scanadu - referring to the invention of the mobile phone, which was inspired by the Star Trek communicator. I think diagnostic and preventative health startups are going to be huge in the next generation across the globe.
October 2011
2 posts
“Identity is prismatic.”
– 4chan’s Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
September 2011
5 posts
It is not about (daily) deals, it is about leads.
goodeatsforme:
There’s been a lot of discussions recently about the daily deals space. With Groupon’s IPO in limbo (and journalist/blogger Rocky Agrawal’s must-read series of insightful takes on the company) , Facebook and Yelp’s scaling back of their deal offers and (despite that) a spate of copycats growing everyday - everyone’s focus is on daily deals.
And I think we’re missing a much bigger...
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WatchThis is really cool. Tempted to do an audio/video capture and put some beats behind this. Reminds me of old school software sequencers. A nice piece of art.
cacioppo:
the internet’s really, really great. (click a few squares!)
seawitchery:
biancavirina:
In Italian Heartland, Indians Keep the Cheese... →
August 2011
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June 2011
7 posts
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“Groupon is essentially holding a portfolio of loans backed by the receivables of...”
– Good quote from a piece by @rakeshlobster - where have we heard this before folks? I’m preparing for the impending flood, and subsequent destruction and carnage.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/why-groupon-is-poised-for-collapse/
“By their lies, they harmed the fabric of social trust. Lies and hoaxes do damage...”
– Blog post by @lizhenry; via @acarvin. Some backstory
Love the quote.
May 2011
5 posts
SocialFlow Company Blog: Breaking Bin Laden:... →
This is a great post by the folks at SocialFlow. For all you Twitternerds out there - check it out in full.
socialflowteam:
A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream...
“Data is becoming the exhaust product of daily life,” he said. “Yet much of the...”
– Michael Zimbalis, company vice president and the Director of The New York Times Company Research and Development Lab
We’re working on changing this.
April 2011
4 posts
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Upcoming show: The Startups Band - May 14th, New...
We’re playing a show at Stella Blues in New Haven, Connecticut May 14th as a warm up to a few gigs this summer. Alex pulled together an initial set list for a practice session at in the Berklee practice rooms tomorrow. Should be fun to get back into the groove.
What Is the Hamburger Sushi Problem on Yelp? →
SchneiderMike has a great post up called ‘What is the Hamburger Sushi Problem on Yelp?’. It talks about the problems with getting Yelp reviews that are accurate to a number of people but not necessarily applicable to you for a number of reasons. He refers to it as ‘Hamburger / Sushi problem’ where the reviewer normally eats hamburgers and not sushi - as such the review is...
TastyBytes Boston – Location-Based Services: Not... →
On April 14th I participated on Compete’s TastyBytes panel called “Location Based Services: It’s Not Just for Mayors” at Towne Stove and Spirits in downtown Boston.
TastyBytes luncheons were created by Compete as a fun, informal way to bring people together for networking and sharing new ideas about how the web, the marketing industry, and current technologies are...
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February 2011
8 posts
“@doza: “i just gave up on chrome. i had to reset it 4 times today”
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– @doza and I were discussing Chrome’s Instability on a Mac over IM today.
Leap of Faith – Vietnam Food Tour →
Here’s part two of the Verghese Family Vacation : South East Asia.
This is a post written by my brother Tom for his food blog ‘Peck The Beak’ documenting the second leg of our trip to Vietnam this past January.
Part one of our journey can be found here.
Bangkok food tour, serendipity 9000 miles away →
I went on walkabout in early Jan for short trip with both my parents and my younger brother to Bangkok and Saigon. As a family, we have not taken a vacation like this for the past 15 years. So it was very much the Verghese (nee Griswold) Family Vacation : South East Asia.
My brother Tom has written two epic blog posts covering the amazing food activities from both cities. Here is part...
I'm (sorta) Bullish on Nokia
There’s a great memo written by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and reposted on Engadget yesterday in which he unequivocally communicates the dire state of his company and attempts to rally his employees to action.
Called the ‘burning platform’ memo, it clearly outlines his thinking on what is going wrong with Nokia. This leaked memo is the stuff of Change Agent 101 (JB...
“The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis...