An old classic dredge up for fun. During the dotcom heyday, MyLackey.com CFO got a little pissed about people not being in the office at 6:45. This email was probably not well advised.

The 10 minute pitch.

redotting: vbhaloo

A fantastic post on 4 different types of luck and how they apply to entrepreneurial endeavor. I am looking forward to the next posts in this series.

Quoted: Marc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur, Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Opsware, Ning

I played with Scrybe a couple months back and thought their product was pretty nice. They just closed a Series A financing round from Adobe and LKMR.

Quoted: Scrybe, the online/offline calendar and organizer, has closed their series A round of financing from Adobe Systems Incorporated and LMKR. In what is ...

Awesome. I recognize problem #1 and #3. It's not about addressable markets. I still think that is BS and fails more often than it works. It's about building something useful for someone you know.

Quoted: Social Web Design by Joshua Porter

Seth Godin. Clear. Smart,

Quoted: A lot of organizations decide to skip the rice and beans and studio apartment step. They decide to "go big or stay home." More often than not, they end up going home.

I may incorporate my personal company for tax reasons - mostly the fact that I am incurring real costs to run a hobby business which I hope will some day make money. Lifehacker has reviewed mynewcompany, a site where I can apparently get registered in 8-10 minutes.

Quoted: Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.

Amazon has launched a product wiki site.

Quoted: Amazon has just released a new Wikipedia clone, called Amapedia. It's described as "a community for sharing information about the products you like the most." So far Amapedia ...

Google has a new offering further driving a wedge into the Microsoft enterprise market. Blue Dot got a bit hooked up on the Microsoft front by having some of our emplyees as alumnus from there. Microsoft has some reasonably priced software for alums starting their own businesses (which is a great idea, btw).

The problem is once you outstrip those first ten licenses on all the products, things start to get more pricey. I just downloaded OpenOffice for my new Mac and I have to say, I really like it so far, and it's FREE! If we were starting over from scratch, I wonder if we'd make all the same software decisions that we have so far? Between Open Office and all the freebie Google apps that have come out, I think startups are getting cheaper by the minute!