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Tony Wright (RescueTime)
Average of <1 post per month.
November 15
, 2008
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12:54 PM
In the past two months I’ve been on two different panels with other entrepreneurs. The first was at WTIA in Bellevue, WA (”Cashing in on Web Services“)– the other panelists were very clearly what I’d call “business entrepreneurs”. All of them had relatively successful funded startups, but not a one of them had [...]
September 15
, 2008
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03:26 PM
This will be a small post, but I stumbled onto some interesting data that I thought I’d share. As a background, we’re currently searching for a great C++ dev to work at our startup here in Seattle. I decided to do a bit of research to see other job postings, compensation packages, etc.
I [...]
August 29
, 2008
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11:32 AM
My first experience with stock options was at the ripe age of 34 years old, when I was selling Jobby (retired) to Jobster (Gah, make the Web 2.0 names STOP!). Before that, I’d been running my own business for close to a decade– with good success, but there really wasn’t any sense in setting [...]
July 10
, 2008
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02:12 PM
Last night I spoke at Seattle Tech Startups. Given that lots of people who go to these meetings tend to be wantrepreneurs (aspiring startup folks), I focused on early decisions that need to be be made. Do you shoot for a great lifestyle business or do you aim for a grandslam? Services [...]
July 8
, 2008
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07:32 PM
It’s official.
All the cool kids are coming to Seattle (at least temporarily).
First, Mike Arrington relocates to Seattle for the Summer.
Now Pete Cashmore and friends from Mashable are throwing a bit of a party here as their kickoff to their “SummerMash” US Summer Tour.
The event costs $10 (there’ll be food, drinks, and DJ there, so it’ll [...]
July 4
, 2008
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12:12 PM
Christian Anderson (a former colleague at Jobster) had an interesting (and well-researched) post on his blog called “How to Pitch Robert Scoble — HINT: No Direct Tweets“… , which led to a discussion on FriendFeed (with Robert himself weighing in) that was pretty interesting.
I had a contribution bouncing around in my head but held off [...]
June 27
, 2008
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12:44 PM
I just got word that I’ll be speaking at the Information Overload Research Group 2008 Conference in New York City on July 15th (though I’m not on the page yet… ).
This is the grassroots organization mentioned with RescueTime in the New York Times article “Lost in Email, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Monster” (well, it’s probably [...]
June 19
, 2008
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08:22 PM
A lot of people are damn religious about bootrapping businesses. Especially nowadays when it’s so easy to start a software business– you just need a few hackers, Ruby on Rails, a cheap virtual server and you’re ready to roll, right?
Sure.
But just because it’s cheaper to start a software company, doesn’t mean that it’s that [...]
June 15
, 2008
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08:52 AM
Just a short note to let folks know that I’ve switched my commenting system over to Disqus.
Disqus is a hosted commenting system (free) that offers a few clear benefits:
2 way communication with people who comment. This is the one I care about. Very often, someone leaves an interesting comment on my blog that [...]
June 14
, 2008
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11:22 AM
There are people in the world who make a living communicating and living “in the noise” of email, IM, Twitter, Digg, TechMeme and the like. For them, the parade of communication and and information is probably a boon.
Unfortunately, for the rest of us (who make a living producing stuff– whether it’s software, design, written [...]
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