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Launching Climate Culture

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Launch early, launch often?

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October 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 am

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Funniest VC Q&A Session EVER

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My favorite: 14:25

A: We have patent.

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October 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

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drop.io vs getdropbox.com

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getdropbox.com wins, and here’s why:

  • Syncing up to 50 gigabytes of content, seamlessly, across Mac, Windows, and Linux.
  • Sharing individual folders, with per-folder “push-like” data publishing.
  • Edit history, ability to un-delete stuff.
  • Automatic organization of media.
  • Other crazy awesome stuff.

What does drop.io do?

  • Share a file. At least it’s easy.

I love Dropbox! It beats drop.io by leaps and bounds.

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September 16th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

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Disqus future strategy

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Disqus is a company currently doing hosted commenting systems, primarily for blogs. They should also do these:

  • rating blog posts
  • polls
  • RSVPs
  • colored labels (if you see a comment you really like, become a fan of the poster so that their comments are highlighted in the future.
  • following (follow that awesome commenter)
  • banning (make someone’s comments invisible to you)

that’s it off the top of my head…

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September 16th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

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A VC focuses on…

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  1. Track Record - Your successes.
  2. Proof of Concept - Your product.
  3. Team - Your people.
  4. Idea - Your vision.

… in that order

… in Serbia.

(Source: Milos, a cool guy who managed to sell a food service startup in Serbia.)

Written by Kevin Chiu

August 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 pm