I had the opportunity to attend Brett Hurt’s RISE session on How to raise money from Angels and VCs. Austin Ventures hosted the group of 25 entrepreneurs in a intimate setting where everyone was asked what they wanted to learn. Susan Lahey wrote a great piece in the Silicon Hill News on the session. It was a [...]
In thinking back at my time at Marketvine I’ve come to realize one of my character traits; I fill gaps. By that I mean when I see someone that needs help, something that needs done or a leadership gap I tend to fill it. In the end of the day I love building great products [...]
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I’m sure even slightly active users of LinkedIn have seen the new endorsement feature that rolled out a month or so ago. It’s basically the same functionality Klout put together for endorsing topics of influence. In LinkedIn’s case they allow any of your connections to endorse you for a specific skills. You’ll see a message [...]
In case you have been in a social media cave somewhere there is a hot new site people are flocking to called Pinterest. Now you may say Pinterest isn’t really new but, it has been garning a lot of new attention lately. Enough that they received around 27 million in funding recently. They also employ [...]
I’ve been exploring several NoSQL solutions this year including MongoDB, CouchDB, Riak, HBase and Cassandra. For one problem set we are trying to solve it appears Cassandra is a good fit. The challenge with using any new technology is there is a learning curve and new techniques to learn. If you get in deep with [...]