2008

Celebrating the 4th of July with as many British people in San Fran as i could find

Deciding on which two of these three things to start focusing on 1) Football (soccer), 2) poker and...

A phone is what i was born to yield - phones in the office. Woot!

Mountain Dew’s caffiene makes me feel jittery. Combined with natural Sumon energy this is a...

Jumpstarting the rollodex

Wondering what the reaction would be if only french was spoken at the San Francisco office when...

The office is so chill

Feeling Monk-like serenity for living threadbare and working hard. Its sad in an interesting way.

needs food

The power of a cause

wow. SF office is surreal. Finally got set up and ready to roll

Back in San Francisco. Will finally check out the office tomorrow.

Wow, didn’t realize that this Apple store on 5th Ave is open 24 hours

The Apple Store in NY is prime location for people watching

Back to sf on monday. Beware - all of you are in store for a surprise visit

Genuine world domination on Monday. Revolution coming - like a tank

final friday in NY. Met some great people this week

Its easy to forget about creative solutions. Never surrender

No BBC iPlayer in the US, but holy crap, Hulu.com is awesome!

So seriously twitter followers which of ur friends should i meet in nyc this week? @ intros welcome

Location based social networking via mutual friends will be huge. The prize goes to loopt

Lhr - nyc

Playfire.com rocks! Congrats kieran

Its about scale

Is in NYC from saturday. Who wants to meet up?

OTTing

Got to love startup lows - time to pull it out the bag again

firefighting like i usually do

Old people wake up this early

keep missing bumping into @car0lus in our respective travels. Having fun in Japan?

Snaptalent 5 full time for the first time ever. Now see what we can do :)

Back in oxford

I like this quote

I haven't posted for a while

Max Levchin’s obsession with success & impact is inspiring. Thats the kind of drive i...

wikia search rocks. I can see this becoming better and better over time.

Headhunting the best people in the world for Snaptalent

a whole day of writing and still am not closer to the end. But i have a better approach now.

reminded of those dissertation writing days with this visa app

‘Everytime you feel nervous, you are in danger of learning something new. Feel nervous, and...

Putting a picture of the office on the wall and writing 9 reference letters. Enough motivation right...

Is loving our new office. Can’t wait until i can work there

Who knew the exeter college connection in the vc world would be so influential

At the lse

Hanging out in a conference room at Atlas Venture

Listening to soulja boy

Back at the city of dreaming spires

Painting, sunshine, jazz, balconies, south ken

Heading to the sink the boat party

Man, i just posted an ad with Snaptalent. There is so much you can learn from eating your own...

Snaptalent on NBC news! http://youtube.com/watch?v=a2nIr_NQQrU Min 2.04

Oh man! Now the sound has gone on my macbook. No video, no music, no multimedia. Feels like the time...

Oh man! Now the sound has gone on my macbook. No video, no music, no multimedia. Feels like the time...

Entrepreneurship is an irrational state of mind. If you are surrounded by normality its hard to...

For all those wondering about startup lows - its a good sign. High-low-high-low etc etc Thats how it...

listening to a tribe called quest

Startup lows again - back to the usual troubles

serious world domination :)

Meeting the partners

Tell the truth about the product. It sells itself :)

Proud of the new UK YC mafia emerging. You new folk now need to deliver ;)

And a company closes a Snaptalent candidate - we’z getting people hired! World domination one...

surreal flava = random portuguese mixes on Mixwit

listening to random portuguese music mixes on mixit - just to keep that surreal flava

impressed with @ajisthinking ‘s progress. Secret hackers these guys. Hackers in denial.

A managing editor of the ft recognised snaptalent after reading about it on hacker news

Heading to DayLife drinks in London

liking the outcome of quite a few weeks and months of process :) Looking forward to working with a...

‘Sand hill road is like Reading’ yesterday’s classic quote. For US readers Reading...

learning to do ad deals

Conduit st isn’t quite like sand hill road

Off to my birthday drinks @ vibe bar in brick lane. Msg me if u are out n about in london

throwing myself at the deepend with doing enterprise deals. Start of many

This game is about firmly making it up and learning while in mid flow. Its all about throwing...

Now I know what pg feels like. Too many people just wanna ‘grab coffee’

Wondering if you can get an overall picture of happiness by analyzing the words used in tweets. I...

Penelope Trunk's blog. Boston Globe Writer....

wants to stay up. But needs to sleep. Work can wait for the morning.

Back to pimperial

is back to the grind. Now for another 12 week YC style work session

quote of the day ’ if your opponent’s sinking, throw the son of a bitch an anvil’....

is 25 years young today

First Snaptalent blog post! http://blog.snaptalent.com/ Took us a while - we were spending time on...

legal paperwork…..

man, i haven’t been back to odeo in years. But it really sucks right now! No search without...

Spreading american ambition to british entrepreneurs. Why hold back and be modest?

Looking forward to the days when i can just walk to work

The london tube fares are gonna kill me

After my first true weekend off in 3 months. Sumon is action time!

proud to see the ecosystem of oxford entrepreneurs growing who can help each other conquer markets...

Food is def more exp here vs the usa even in the dirt cheapest supermarkets

Its snowing in London

14 Hours of straight sleep. Love jetlag. Now back to it!

4 dollars for a single bus ticket! Welcome back to london

flying from SFO —> LHR. See u in 10 hours

Ok, its past midday on the west coast. I’m back to pro entrepreneurship. Quit your jobs, lock...

I think i’m gonna give up on startups and go back to grad school. Its just too hard.

Waiting in SOMA, for next meeting. Round the corner from baseball stadium

Waiting in SOMA, for next meeting. Round the corner from baseball stadium

Just had lunch with Andrea, and a guy who sold recruitment advertising for the wsj and IDG for 20...

Think people should be encouraged to start companies at 16. By 20 then you’ll get super...

Scibd Party last night at Ed Kinsey’s house was awesome. Just the house you’d buy if you...

In San Francisco at the apple store - who wants to go for dinner?

Congrats @kul @harj @patrickc. $5m exit for auctomatic. Kudos guys!

Waiting for a call for the biggest biz dev deal of my life so far. Bring on the rainmaking.

Snaptalent

impressed by the quality if resumes coming through snaptalent. Loving the attention 23andme is...

is raving about Mixwit - omg this is sooo cool http://mixwit.com

chillin. finally…. its been a long 3 months

Woot! Snaptalent is now being used by the carnegie mellon student newspaper! Hire hackers there

Keeping customers happy

Being harrassed by investors. Feels good :)

Juixe TechKnow » Rails Performance Link Fest

Yes! Snaptalent launched this week. Life and real business resumes. Techcrunched twice this week.

dhtmlsite javascript

Looking at the data. Holy shit this is going to be big.

Orglex - Your Industry Hubs

Its all starting. Yes, really. This next week is going to be huge.

Meeting with Glenn Kelman went well

Love it when people complement my pitch.

Companies Can Make Money With Widget Ads -...

I love how our landing page is getting a lot of attention. haha

Know hot startups who have trouble hiring the best? Apply for beta http://snaptalent.com

“Bill Gates to speak on campus Feb. 19 in Memorial...”
— Bill Gates to speak on campus...

clipboarded: command line quizzes part 1

“Also, if a newcomer wanted to know what kind of users are on...”
— clipboarded: news.yc...

plot_leaders.png (image)

plasticbag.org: What you should know before...

Facebook can ruin your life. And so can...

Learning From a Native Speaker, Without...

John Cleese’s “Letter to America” « Things...

Google Operating System - About

woot! @sacca liked the product

Being a VC must be so boring. I’d rather be where the action’s at for now

AOL acquires affiliate network to boost ad...

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob...

Usability 101: Definition and Fundamentals -...

alarm:clock euro: Angels Back German Woot Clone

Browse Goods: shoes department

In Apple store, waiting for Jamie before the Hi5 partay

mmm Back from YC party. Free beer and a day of secret celebration

A meeting to top all meetings. Lets make this happen

'Get Venture' by Mark Peter Davis: Table Of...

FrameThink - Frameworks for Thinking People

Ran into Ron Conway, Jessica, PG and various VCs in the same cafe near stanford all within an hour...

haha - last night at the YC dinner, Evan Williams said he’d use our product.

In Coupa cafe in Palo Alto. Near stanford, free wifi. Kicking it silicon valley style

Loomia Powers Social Recommendations for WSJ,...

Digg’s user signups vs time

dack.com > web > web economy bullshit...

Web 2.0 workplaces [PICS] - UADDit

Web 2.0 workplaces [PICS] - UADDit

The PayPal mafia - Nov. 14, 2007

Web Developer's Field Guide - Your Ultimate...

“The Four Viral App Objectives Increase the percentage of...”
— The Four Viral App Objectives...

“What is happening is there is a glut of impressions on the...”
—  CPM Rates Drop, Will Pay...

QNX PocketGeek - Home

Me at a YC dinner, next to Joe Kraus of Excite, Jotspot...

Viral + Monetizable = StartUp Magic...

“We believe that a start up increases career equity more than...”
—  Genotrope’s JobHacks

“MyBlogLog API Could Be A Game Changer Last week, Yahoo!...”
— JOE LAZARUS - MyBlogLog API...

“And there’s the fact that they’re in Boulder. Really,...”
—  TechStars : Matt’s...

LaunchBox Digital, an early stage investment firm located in...