I have been meeting a lot of new entrepreneurs in the Valley lately and its great to have new people doing cool things. But over at Web 2.0 Expo this past week me and my friend ran into an entrepreneur new to the valley who started to tell us his story. He is from New York and arrived with only 5000 to his name in order to start or join a startup of his interest. Continue reading ‘Why does it feel like Hollywood in Silicon Valley?’

Today I’m spending my time hanging out at the Web 2.0 Expo and am currently involved in the Startup Metrics panel which is very interesting, it is by two of my good friends Hiten Shah and Dave McClure. You can find more information on this panel which I highly recommend you read the notes for if you are a startup and need to know what kinds of things are most important to track and what are the best tools to use.

You can find notes and tips over at my friend Jeff’s blog: Startup 101 Metrics.

People tell me day after day that MySpace is a waste of time for the youth of today. They spend less time doing homework and studying and more time browsing friend’s profiles and sharing information online. To an extent I agree, MySpace increasingly changes the priorities of youth today. I recently engaged in a long debate with my friend on this topic.

The way I see it children today, on average, know a lot more HTML and CSS than when I was in middle school(8 years ago) or high school(4 years ago). In my middle school days, if the computer lab teacher had asked “Who here knows about HTML?” — I am sure I would have been the only one with my hand up. Today I am almost certain 50% of these middle school classroom students have interacted and edited HTML and CSS code on their MySpace pages.

I think these basic ideas enable the children of today to be a greater pool of knowledge and mass when it comes to interfacing with the computer in the many years to come. Technology is, and always has been, defined by the way society uses it — I wonder how many elementary kids will know about HTML/CSS in the next 8-10 years.

After much pressure from the rest of my team at ACS, I finally switched my full time daily operations to my MacBook Pro. Continue reading ‘Once you go Mac, you can’t go back.’

Interesting conversation tonight at dinner:

“If Google didn’t have search results and you can only search through their ad-data — it would still be valuable.” Continue reading ‘Attention and Advertisement #1 (general thoughts)’