mike | Shared With: Everyone - 10 hours ago | startups, seattle, npr, startpad
ResuceTime on NPR
Quoted: Outsource your daily task and stop making to-do lists in favor of don't do lists — these are just two of Timothy Ferriss' tips for a shorter work-week. The author of <em>The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich,</em> offers guidelines for a plush Blackberry-free life.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 15 hours ago | blogs, startups, sampa, faves
Faves climbs in Alexa rank, yet slips on Compete - now sitting at #11 ranked consumer site in Seattle.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 4 days ago | startups, seattle, rescuetime, blogs
Tony's really good blog post about bootstrapping the financing of a web 2.0 startup. I like his definition of the 3 milestones your company has to reach.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 6 days ago | startups, coworking, silicon valley, office space
About 10 times bigger than StartPad, Plug and Play has 118 startup companies leasing space in their Silicon Valley offices.
Quoted: Plug and Play Tech Center provides fully furnished offices, instant move in type offices, meeting rooms, virtual offices and network access in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley,California.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 15 days ago | sampa, startpad, startups
Quoted: Come to StartPad and learn what it takes to chop the head of a Web product gone wrong and starting from scratch.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 19 days ago | startups, espn, web 2.0, second avenue
Ex-ESPN employees started fanzter in June 2007. Investors are Rich Barton (Expedia, Zillow), and Second Avenue Partners. Even though their investors are in Seattle, the company is located in Connecticut.
Their first product, CoolSpotters, opened up in May 2008.
Quoted: Fanzter Inc. is a new media development company working hard to create the world's best consumer Internet products.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | conference, startups
Conference for potential startup entrepreneurs.
Quoted: Start is a one-day conference in San Francisco designed for smart, talented Web people to take hold of their ideas, follow their dreams, and start their own companies.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | startpad, rescuetime, startups, nyt
Some great mentions and a quote from StartPad tenants, RescueTime, in the New York Times this weekend.
Quoted: A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day.
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“We are hunter-gatherers at the core,” said Tony Wright, chief executive of RescueTime, who is also a member of the new nonprofit group. “We open e-mail and hit ‘send and receive’ to see if something interesting has come in.” - mike | Shared With: Everyone - 27 days ago | amazon, startpad, startups, seattle, web development, aws
An AWS evangelist is going to be hanging out at Startpad once a month starting June 24th!
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 29 days ago | social, conference, startups
Seattle BarCamp coming to Seattle this weekend. Looks like a blast.
Quoted: The password is c4mp.
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