All posts by sneaker

Twitter updates for 2009-08-23

Turned on the Comcast cable box after about a month. Doesn't work — nothing at all. Comcast sucking it at ususal. #ComcastFAIL #

Wuhu Island pwned (Wuhu Island: http://bit.ly/148smZ || pwned: http://bit.ly/IzCSF) #
RT @TimDraper: Some thoughts on VC Regulation. Venture capital helps everything this administration wants to accomplish. http://bit.ly/Zm41Q #
Great visualizations… RT @TechCrunch The Personas Project From MIT Is All Kinds Of Cool http://tcrn.ch/7zFL #
Only +ve thing re @LinkedIn is critical mass, o/w really been sucking when it comes to innovation/openness. Hope it turns around. #potential #
My @LinkedIn setting say "You are receiving only Introductions." yet I still continue to receive spammy InMail. What gives!? #
Yesterday, whole day on/with current cos. Today, full day w/new startups. I could do this all the time. Wait, I do. #StartupKoolAid #
Truly appreciating the fact that a Mac is really a Unix box under the hood. #
Middle of the night boto-ing. (Sometimes sleep just has to take a lower priority over figuring some things out!) #

Travis rocks 🙂 RT @Konatbone: Free Couchsurfing for Techcrunch50 entrepreneurs… http://su.pr/2uAB6A #
There's a little bit of Pittsburgh everywhere — in the form of the Heinz Ketchup bottle! RT @andreazurek: Ketchup http://post.ly/2TIK #
RT @peHUB: What Y Combinator Looks For In A Startup: Energy and determination, intelligence and a sense of design… http://bit.ly/15ZTys #
RT @CarnegieMellon: Only at Carnegie Mellon! RT @cmuTV: Catch the Pogo Dudes in action here http://bit.ly/VT5qD !!! #cmuorientation #
Most angel/seed rounds are not competitive. Key is to build a syndicate of interested parties who can pool together $$s for round. #

Good post indeed. RT @expensify: RT @ashbhoopathy Wow. another super insightful post by the guys at @Expensify http://tinyurl.com/m2g87c #
#3 is right solution imho. RT @Rafe @davewiner: How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News). http://tr.im/wHAs [[interesting, important]] #
Nice summary of on-the-record cos. RT @TechCrunch: Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day http://tcrn.ch/7KXt by @jasonkincaid #
RT @davemcclure: BEST #YCdemo SOUNDBITE: "We think the best way to get you to invest in us is for us to sleep with you." (*awesome*) #
Where do these stupid people come from? Geez! Outstanding response by Barney Frank tho. Worth watching. http://su.pr/AlrtU8 (HT @Konatbone) #
Hope my dentist doesn't discover these! 😉 RT @ehthayer: This is more like a bad dream than a dentist visit http://bit.ly/KWwyf #
Great time at #YCDemo Day. Amazing class of companies. Great pitches & lots of familiar (investor) faces. Great job PG, JL & others at YC. #
Liking the YC pitches so far. Doing good job of explaining pain/problem before showing solution. All showing big market. Good pitch prep. #

Just installed 'Chicken of the VNC' — what a creative name 🙂 http://bit.ly/QvInW #