my tumblr is for the low-brow/brilliant things i find in life and on the internets. for high-brow/brilliant, please see my blog Talk about a busy week.
Meetings with 4 VC firms, 3 Biz-dev meetings, 1 sales meeting. What’s truly important? Making the product better for customers.
May 2005, broadcasting “livestreaming” a Thomas Friedman speech from Brandeis University. Wow. I guess I’ve been doing this web video thing for a while…
Photo from Brandeis University’s Federal Work/Study info page (I did not do work / study, and BTV was not work, it was a club).
john:
Listening to Fred Wilson introduce restauranteur Danny Meyer, who made me this wonderful meal. Shake Shack milkshakes to follow.
And how was your lunch ;)
I haven’t had lunch yet. I’m sick. And you’re well and eating food introduced to you by Danny Meyer, who was introduced to you by Fred Wilson. You suck.
I feel exactly the same way. Those USV people are assholes for rocking so hard.
AnyClip Usability Testing
If you can spare 15-20 minutes of your time on Wednesday, October 14th please come by the AnyClip offices in New York to help us test AnyClip and to give us feedback on what we can do better.
Whether you’re an AnyClip user, or you haven’t had the opportunity to play around with our website yet, we want to hear from you.
We’ll have some snacks and refreshments and you’ll get to hang out with the AnyClip Team. You’ll also get an invitation to AnyClip.com if you don’t have one, and 2 extra invites to give out to your friends.
Please fill out this form and we’ll let you know if you’re a match for our testing event!
Date: Wed, Oct 14th
Time: 6:00 - 7:15pm (you can pick your time slot)
Where: 245 W17th Street - 11th Floor (btw 7th / 8th Ave), New York, NY
Questions? Get in touch with Gabi Moore — gabi@anyclip.com
Hope to see you there!
Please swing by if you have an hour to help us. Thanks!
You log on to AnyClip with a mission, and you leave with passion.
AnyClip: It’s a Winner - Jared Hecht
I love this. Replace AnyClip with the name of your startup and you have your mantra.
(via david-noel)
I love startup stories.
A little perspective if you will….
This was what GuestofaGuest looked like in May of ‘07 (Compared to what it looks like now.) None of you probably know this because none of you were reading it then. I was writing it under the alias of Holly Golightly while simultaneously working fulltime + for a billionaire on the top of
the worldthe GM Building.Let me start over. Tonight I got anxious. Again. I want to do so much with this site. With this city, and the next city and the next, and then the next after that. I want videos, I want a 24 hr feed, I want a marketplace, and a newsletter that reaches millions. I want to be innovative and fresh. I want, I want, I want.
I find that the more I think about what I want to do, the less I get done. Which is why, after hanging up the phone with my dad just now, and discussing the trials and tribulations of a startup that has founders with big eyes, and (sometimes) impatient days; I decided to go and take a look at where we came from. Put things in perspective if you will….
- One of our first posts on “Miriam” the girl door at the just opened box who we dubbed as “The Most Powerful Woman In Manhattan.” Insert Lyz from the Jane Hotel in for Miriam and this post could be just as relevant today
- Here’s one called “Guess the Mortimer” with a revealing photo of the tins? or the dabs? at Ciprianis. We’ll never tell who but Tinsley just got a reality TV show…over 2 years later.
- And, one of my all time favorites: “Everything you need to know: The Guido.” Still a top hit post every now and then…as guidos are certainly still around.
This was the first summer the site started as, a true hobby (I didn’t quit my job to take this hobby full time until may ‘08). And some of the posts are just incredibly fun to go back and read. We have switched over almost all of these posts to our current url (away from this wordpress address), but I decided to link them to the old archived versions. I am proud of where we have come.
So I guess my point is that cliched idea that Rome wasn’t built overnight. It took days and days to get to where we are now. But my 2 year younger self, the one that wrote those posts above? I am confident she would be smiling if at that moment in time, the moment she was up late at night writing about this city and it’s charms after a long day of work, she could see what this “hobby” looked like today.
I am going to remember this tonight and then tomorrow, and then the day after that, and the one after that, and the hundreds more to follow. We, (god just thinking of the fact that WE have a STAFF now is incredible), will accomplish all of our dreams someday, and we will look back on this moment and smile, just like I did tonight.
Mathew McConaughey can’t stand on his own
HAHAHA
Kind of brilliant.
“What now, Rupe?” Classic SAI. The stats themselves: Classic Internet.
The AnyClip team watching our TC50 preso live at 3am Israel time. Wish I could have been in two places at once!
SetJam look hottttttttttt. Ryan Janssen had a great post today about what it’s like to launch a bootstrapped company 3 weeks after Ask.com former CEO launched Clicker, which has $8 million.
Scott is right when he says there’s a Meetup for everything…
(via Meetup.com’s ‘New Meetups Near You’ newsletter)
I have made the decision to step down from the presidency of Brandeis University…
Serving Brandeis for nearly three decades has been a great honor, which I have enjoyed immensely. Ours is an active, engaged community; one that is both intellectually strong and fiercely passionate; it is one that has never failed to make me proud to be a part of Brandeis.
President Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis University, in a letter to the University community today.
Presidenet Reinharz has been a tremendous force for Brandeis and he will be missed. He’s such a force in the Jewish community that Michael Steinhardt both serves on the Board and has donated millions for the Heller School’s Social Research Institute, but he has never, ever stepped foot on campus. He told a crowd of young alums in New York once, “Jehuda was the President of Brandeis. That’s all I needed to know.”
From Ed Felten’s 2004 lecture Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue.
Also thought this was a fun “recommended” section. Yes, I will be in a lineup with Marc Andreessen and Aaron Patzer!
