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TechStars: Just Do It
Techstars opened up applications for their 2010 classes a couple weeks back. If you’re thinking about quitting your job to start a company, or you’re already working on a company but haven’t got all
Read More »VirtualBox Image for Enron Email and Twitter Data Analysis
As I mentioned during my talk at Defrag 2009, the best corpus of sample email data we have is the email data dump that the federal government released after Enron’s collapse. The corpus includes
Read More »Why Email's Not Going Anywhere
I presented the following slides at Defrag 2009 last week in Denver. I wanted to take a quick look at the different use cases for email vs. microblogging and make some predictions about how
Read More »Enron/Twitter Data Coming Soon
Defrag is *awesome* so far – so much to learn! I’ll be posting the virtual machine image with the Enron/Twitter data I used, plus information about how to process it, right here this weekend.
Read More »A few thoughts on serendipity
Sunday’s New York Times included a column under their Ping business technology section that made a pretty convincing argument that the web and mobile technology are stamping out serendipity. Instead, they argued, the opportunity
Read More »I got my first job offer! Now what?
Congratulations! You aced the phone screen, survived the (potentially grueling) interviews, and your offer letter is in the mail. Awesome! You should absolutely go out to celebrate, but before you mail in your acceptance,
Read More »Startup Social Anxiety Disorder
What do an irrational fear of rejection, the inability to talk to girls at a bar, and a startup in “stealth mode” all have in common? I was riding the Orange Line en route
Read More »How cheap should we be?
As Baydin has started, I’ve heard a number of different voices on how cheap a startup should be. Those voices have almost universally concentrated toward the extremes – they advise either being incredibly, incredibly
Read More »Desktop Search: What hasn’t changed
A few posts back, we talked about why search on the desktop works a lot better than it did just a few years ago. In this post, we’ll talk about how desktop search hasn’t
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