April 2008
23 posts
My favorite 4 words
bijan: I love when I meet with entrepreneurs and during the meeting someone says, “Imagine if you could [insert new idea here]” Those four words warm my heart. And it’s so much better than my least favorite 4 words “That will never work” You gotta be a natural optimist to be an entrepreneur or VC. Bijan’s so right!
WatchWho’s the Boss? Funny!!!! (via: bijan: jakeandamir )
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in...”
– Bob Dylan
US Clean Tech Deals (Last Week)
Hayward, Calif.-based OptiSolar, a manufacturer of photovoltaic solar modules, raised Cdn$2.99 million from Toronto’s Kensington Global Private Equity Fund. OptiSolar is a fully integrated solar energy company that makes solar modules to produce power from its own planned large scale solar farms. The company is working to build nine 10 megawatt solar farms in southwestern Ontario by 2010. ...
FM Publishing Raises Series A Round →
Congrats guys!!!!
A nation of hypocrites →
Ramesh Ramanathan writes an amazingly candid article on why we, Indians, are the most hypocritical lot in the world. I can’t agree more. ( via: abhilashr ) Especially the shave and water one :)
iAccelerator →
India’s YCombinator clone! Have to keep an eye on this. (abhilashr) Yeh! This is going to be big!
“Gore Vidal once said that you should never pass up an opportunity to have sex or...”
– Troy Patterson over at Slate. (via nickdouglas)
itsmy.com Reaches 1 Million Users on Mobile Phones →
itsmy.com, one of the world’s fastest growing mobile-only social networks, has announced one million registered users. The ad-funded mobile community dedicates every user a free personalisable mobile homepage with a unique mobile web address (myname.itsmy.com) to show and tell all friends – the main reason for the fast viral growth. All users register via the browser of their mobile phone in...
Watchbin laden on Vimeo This guy watches movie previews with his dog and comments on them.. it’s funny.
Silicon Valley slowdown: not as much as on Wall... →
Job growth has slowed, start-up firms are more cautious on spending, early-stage investors are growing frugal
“Recessions happen. If you tried to build an economy immune to the human emotions...”
– NYT
“She wants to know if I love her. That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Interview With a Hedge Fund Manager | n+1 →
CHECK! (via nickdouglas)
More good news for startups: Google App Engine
I’m reblogging bijan: Just read all the coverage of the Google App Engine. I can’t wait to talk to some of our portfolio companies that use Amazon Web services and get their thoughts on how this stacks up. The timing couldn’t have been better. More and more companies need this yesterday and Amazon has been having some performance issues of late. I am amazed but not surprised that Google...
So you know how we get performances bonuses at...
What bonus do Vimeo employees get for whining like a bitch? (Kidding. Flickr’s new video player does look and work exactly like Vimeo’s but I’m sure everyone at Vimeo knows there are only so many ways to make a player and this means little anyway because Flickr caps video length at 90 seconds, which is lower than the average length on any video sharing site so they won’t be taking much business...
Former Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam: 'A... →
APJ Abdul Kalam was among India’s best-known scientists before he became the country’s President. An alumnus of the Madras Institute of Technology, he worked for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) where he helped launch India’s first satellites into orbit. Later, Kalam worked on developing missiles and other strategic weapons; he was widely regarded as a national hero...
