Dennis told me his album with Emmylou Harris is excellent. I personally think he is the best guitarist ever… Here is whatever I found in Project Playlist.
I am completely done with TypePad. In addition to having to pay every month, I also hated the fact that I had to pay even more if I wanted to really personalize my blog instead of using their pre-canned themes.
I love some of the themes the usrers come up with. I decided to modify my own theme and started with a great design from Paul Giacherio.
The result is what you see here, there is a bunch of extras in the code but decided to keep most of it just in case Iwant to do a multiple column blog. I am a bit rusty so it took a while but I am ready to play with sidebars etc. and get much more sophisticated next week.
This is really funny! I guess i should have watched SNL this weekend…
UPDATE 2-JPMorgan to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share | ETFs | News | Reuters
IMHO Lehman Brothers is next!
I am tired of paying $4.95 a month to TypePad (a.k.a. SixApart). I have been a member since Nov 2006 which means I have paid them $79.20 over the last 16 months. Apparently, I have posted a whopping 47 times, so each post costs me a staggering $1.69. So I am packing my bags and moving to Tumblr. Tumblr is one of our portfolio companies, it is a beautiful and easy to use application, and frankly I like the concept of tumbling over blogging. It is also free! I have been keeping a shadow…
I listened to the news coverage and some of the duiscussion on NPR tonight. It was unbeleivable that the new attorney general was debating that if used to extract information for the greater good, for example to find out about a nuclear bomb threat, waterboarding may not be considered as a “shock to the system” which apparently is the core of the debate.
Here is the New York Times coverage on the subject:
The non-compete clause for employees in start-ups that we invest in has been a subject of debate at Spark Capital for a while now and we finally decided to take a stand: My partner Bijan Sabet posted about it earlier today, we plan to do away with non-competes going forward. His complete post is below. Please show your support by commenting on his blog or taking the poll below.
Getting…
Someone told me the same thing in Israel. Almost overnight there was a Facebook explosion and everyone they knew was on Facebook. I think it just happened in Turkey too. I started finding all my old high school friends. They appeared and spread like a very efficient virus. I will probably soon have almost all in my class as friends. My college class is slower to adopt.
Cool!
I am not yet into all the other gimmicks like the wall etc. but I started to really like it.
Someone told me the same thing in Israel. Almost overnight there was a Facebook explosion and everyone they knew was on Facebook. I think it just happened in Turkey too. I started finding all my old high school friends. They appeared and spread like a very efficient virus. I will probably soon have almost all in my class as friends. My college class is slower to adopt.
Cool!
I am not yet into all the other gimmicks like the wall etc. but I started to really like it.
I was going through some of the new KickApps sites and I found this video at Guinness World Records Community site.
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(via This and That by Santo Politi)I am sure you have read that the new price tag for Facebook may be as high as $13B. The New York Times start their story with a comment on Mark Zuckerberg:Microsoft Is Said to Consider a Stake in Facebook - New York Times SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 ??? Some people laughed at Mark E. Zuckerberg when he reportedly turned down a $900 million offer last year for Facebook, the social networking Web site he founded three and a half years ago….I personally think the real genious here is David Sze from Greylock Partners. I know at least here in the east coast, when Greylock did the facebook deal at a reported $525M pre-money valuation a lot of people were snickering. I am not sure how it was in the west coast but here is Valleywag’s not so flattering coverage.
It is not over yet by any means but at the reported $13B valuation, if this were an exit, that $25M round of financing would return a whopping 23.6X on the investment. Greylock’s investment - $10M or $15M (I don’t know the exact amount) - would be worth anywhere from $230M to $340M - more money than most venture firms see come back from a single investment in their whole existense. This is still by far less than Accel may make in the end but the timing of David’s investment is what makes it special for me.
I suspect it was a very contraversial investment for the venerable Greylock partnership to get behind. Probably David had to do a lot of selling to get it through, not to mention that a public failure at that price could also be very career limiting. I am not sure what story the facebook team told then, but clearly the company was not what it is today when David had the conviction to invest.
I don’t know David personally but I hear he is a smart and friendly investor. I wish him all the luck to see this gutsy investment through to a succesful exit.
(via This and That by Santo Politi)
I am sure you have read that the new price tag for Facebook may be as high as $13B. The New York Times start their story with a comment on Mark Zuckerberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Consider a Stake in Facebook - New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 — Some people laughed at Mark E. Zuckerberg when he reportedly turned down a $900 million offer last year for Facebook, the social networking Web site he founded three and a half years ago….
I personally think the real genious here is David Sze from Greylock Partners. I know at least here in the east coast, when Greylock did the facebook deal at a reported $525M pre-money valuation a lot of people were snickering. I am not sure how it was in the west coast but here is Valleywag’s not so flattering coverage.
It is not over yet by any means but at the reported $13B valuation, if this were an exit, that $25M round of financing would return a whopping 23.6X on the investment. Greylock’s investment - $10M or $15M (I don’t know the exact amount) - would be worth anywhere from $230M to $340M - more money than most venture firms see come back from a single investment in their whole existense. This is still by far less than Accel may make in the end but the timing of David’s investment is what makes it special for me.
I suspect it was a very contraversial investment for the venerable Greylock partnership to get behind. Probably David had to do a lot of selling to get it through, not to mention that a public failure at that price could also be very career limiting. I am not sure what story the facebook team told then, but clearly the company was not what it is today when David had the conviction to invest.
I don’t know David personally but I hear he is a smart and friendly investor. I wish him all the luck to see this gutsy investment through to a succesful exit.