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Sushi Regurg day

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:45:05 -0600

This last picture says it all. (#2) Gerhard just can't hang with (#1) Micah in the speed eating orgasm roll round. oh, and this is after 89 pieces of sushi already:

http://www.lijit.com/blog/

Google just streetview’d me

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:40:09 -0600

I did not see the streetview car roll by, darn!

At least it was not foiled by a plastic bag.

Define Irony

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:30:11 -0600

As we are pitching Guy Kawasaki (one of my personal hero’s) our new iPhone application concept, handshak.es. He pulls off his jacket and underneath is wearing one of our own “Don’t pitch me Bro!” shirts... I am my own undoing.

The pitch here.

Sweded Tron... Awesome

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:00:32 -0600

Click, just click.

Startup weekend comotion

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:56:41 -0600

Easter weekend. Time to launch another company. Photo By Tara of Lijit

We launch of handshak.es

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:55:13 -0600

Yep, another company, in successive posts no less!

See the pitch here
and the website here

We launch vcwear.com

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:23:39 -0700

So, on the plane ride home from Startup Weekend Andrew Hyde and I launched a new company vcwear.com. Clothing for the top 2/20% of the population. Apparently we’ve stirred up quite a mess in the VC industry:

Clever T-Shirts Target 'Twisted, Warped' VCs
By Arwen Ungar
2/25/2008
What is the biggest problem facing venture capitalists?  The lack of clever T-shirts.   Or so says VC Wear, a company that started as a joke aiming "to take over the fashion world, make the whole world smile and cure some disease somehow."  After hearing friend and venture capitalist at Pearl Street Venture Funds Paul Roales being harangued in a bar by an overeager entrepreneur pitching a stealth-mode contextual advertising company, Andrew Hyde, co-founder of entrepreneur conference organization Startup Weekend, decided he could provide a truly invaluable service to venture capitalists: High-priced T-shirts - available only to accredited investors - warning off the passionate, the inexperienced and the pushy with slogans like, "Don't Pitch Me, Bro" and "Your mom is not a valid test market."  Hyde and his friend Matt Emmi cemented the details of the company in a moleskin notebook on the flight home from an entrepreneur event in Bloomington, Ind., put on by Startup Weekend.  The pair decided on a target audience, "Really warped, twisted venture capitalists." And then further targeted it: "Basically, Brad Feld is our only target."  Feld, a partner at Mobius Venture Capital and managing director of Foundry Group, was the inspiration behind a tee that pictures a man on a contraption called the treadputer, a working computer with three monitors attached to a treadmill that Feld had created and described on his blog Feld Thoughts.  By Thursday, barely two days after it was founded, the company had sold nine T-shirts. But Hyde said Feld had not yet purchased one.  "Given that I am their target audience, I would expect a free treadputer T-shirt in exchange for the use of the phrase treadputer," Feld said. A true venture capitalist, he added, "I expect that if they lowered their price to $25 per shirt, they'd sell more than enough to buy a year's supply of ham sandwiches."  Feld wasn't the only one who noticed the site: News spread among venture capitalists faster than Webvan sped into bankruptcy in 2001.  U.S. venture capitalists had heard of it. "I think it's absolutely hilarious," said Braughm Ricke of True Ventures. "The quotes are intuitive and very funny."  International venture capitalists had even taken notice. "Finally, this industry gets its own T-shirt site. A hoax, of course, unless you have $100 to blow on some fine American Apparel cotton," Max Niederhofer of Atlas Venture in Germany said via email.  The site was quick to respond to the onslaught of references in the venture capital blogosphere by posting a new shirt, "More People Have Seen This Shirt Than Your Startup."  And it's probably true. Even the National Venture Capital Association weighed in. Emily Mendell, vice president of strategic affairs and outreach at the NVCA, said: "It's really clever and the folks responsible really understand venture capital. I think they could have a real business. They could do hedge fund shirts, buyout shirts."  All seriousness aside, Roales, the initial inspiration, said Hyde and Emmi never really meant to make money.   "The $100 pricing is meant to go along with that theme of humor and social commentary," Roales said.  In addition to shirts, the site also features a "Buy this company now" button where impulse shopping venture capitalists can purchase the site for $100,000.  The purchase of the site will include "hundreds of tear-filled term sheets that will come in handy when reprinting the shirts," and the "envy of all your VC friends."  Whether the site expands into different areas such as LBO Wear like Mendell suggests, or lowers its prices like Feld posits, for venture capitalists, its wry and spot-on humor may withstand the test of time, just as long as it avoids turning into another hackneyed site like T-Shirt Hell.   Provided they've learned the lessons adorning the shirts, venture capitalists should know better.

Rock On!

Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:44:59 -0700

Pictures from the rock band party:

Rock Band Party Pics

Daily Quote

Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:11:02 -0700

Apparently I’m an authority on All things tech now. Gosh, all I do is read WIRED.

All Up In Your Facebook - Colorado Daily

Morning coffee book club

Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:03:21 -0700

My good friend sean has started a group dedicated to um, well books and coffee:
http://groups.google.com/group/MondayMorningCoffee/sub?s=WjUt5AgAAAD_nebGuIsDEFdUD9Ejjx8J&hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/MondayMorningCoffee/sub?s=WjUt5AgAAAD_nebGuIsDEFdUD9Ejjx8J&hl=en

The photo above is from the rubble of a suicide bomber who used a bus which he’d just ridden while in palestine.

Be sure to check out his new book at his site:
http://sean.mcgowan.be/

Ring of the Rockies

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:46:22 -0600

We all come together to help Claus pull off a killer showing at the Concours d’Elegance for the launch of his new race track. Held September 2nd at the Broadmoore in Colorado Springs.

Pictures

ride horse

Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:43:25 -0600

yes, my view most of the way...

horserid photos

Daft Punk concert Red Rocks - 2007

Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:54:56 -0600

Oh, just more of the usual fun madness.

right this way...

iBloggin.com [beta] launches

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:53:16 -0600

Two days after we conceive the idea for a live photo based “twitter” application for our shiny new iPhones eric has programmed the site and we are live! Try it out - especially if you have an iPhone - but even if you don’t it’s still possible from an email enabled phone or computer.

http://www.ibloggin.com

speaking of iBloggin - MS150 OneButton

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:45:42 -0600

See the entire live blog of our MS 150 ride at my iBloggin site:
http://matt.ibloggin.com/

And for the photo album of the event:
OneButton MS150 ride

iPhone changes the world

Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:41:46 -0600

ok, last iPhone post, iPromise.
I was at Dave’s BBQ and talking to Prof. Rick who’s teaching a Mobile Computing class. As we showed him the iPhone we redefined the entire scope of the course while sitting on a picnic bench - cool!
 In the meantime Eric has tweaked his video streaming server. We are encoding all our films so we can stream our movies via either Edge network or WiFi to our iPhone.

we make front page Gizmodo!

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:02:32 -0600

quick click on http://www.gizmodo.com !

Otherwise find us here permanently:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/huge-gallery/iphone-lines-across-the-usa-a-gallery-by-you-273527.php

3 years late, they finally get it!

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:59:51 -0600

So here we sit still in the iLine, my mentor david and I discuss the dirth of lost marketing opportunities to a captive, wealthy audience sitting in line for 12+ hours. Then just after noon o’clock something happens. A wave of marketing insight comes over all the merchants in the surrounding stores. Instead of seeing us as a slobering Technobsessed mob, they start to bring us all kinds of goodies:

• Z-Gallery brings us huge umbrella’s (complete with decorative asian elephant base)
• Petes brings us coffee at 6am and then green tea frosties in the afternoon
• Seattle’s Best brings us bbq cheese sandwiches
• Purple Martini brings us 6 free drinks
• I bring cherries from Harry and David
• Then KPC, PieWay and Mad Greens come out with menus and offer to deliver food in line
• oh - and christie brings us the cutest ball of cotton

iLine - 6:05 am

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:12:40 -0600

Here we are in the iLine awaiting the arrival of our beloved iPhone at 6pm. We’ve been here since 11pm the previous night (ok, I cheated and went out to Pearl St. then slept for 1 hr, but my chair was present since 11). Estimated value of all electronic products owned by line attendees - $20k.

papa’d be proud

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:19:30 -0600

When my grandfather passed away (see here) I inherited a stack of original old car brochures (see here), two of them were sent to him from Dusenberg, still in original mailing envelope, complete with 6 cent stamp.

Not to be counting unhatched eggs and all but I thought that this was a neat story. I did a theater estimate for a fellow who lives up in evergreen. In the garage of his $9.7M house was an original Dusenberg. When I brought up his estimate I took the original brochures. He really got a kick out of them and we found his model for sale originally at $15,500 (now worth well over a million). So in some way, from the grave, papa helped out in our new business - OneButton.

MS 150 OneButton Jerseys

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:35:28 -0600

Our custom OneButton Jerseys have arrived and not only do the look amazing and fit exceptionally but they will increase your electronic-tech-savvy status by +12.

If I look this good at 90...

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:28:10 -0600

Then perhaps I won’t decide to die early. Not bad! We also celebrated Dick and Helen’s 50th wedding anniversary. Hard to fathom as the concept of marriage still seems foreign to me. It’s my first visit to everyone on this side of the family in 10 years.

Wow, two links to my mom’s page in one day!

Pete’s 90th birthday!

um oh ya, i graduated

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:26:49 -0600

Guess I kinda forgot to mention that. Link to my mom’s page for photos!

Graduation 07

Technofabulous on the NIKE + iPod

Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:46:18 -0600

Technofabulous is a column in the Colorado Daily which is written by myself and Sari. Despite being overseas our article forges on!

This article is on my experience with the NIKE + iPod attachment:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/

The article can be read online at the colorado daily’s website:
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/05/20/opinion/your_take/yourtake1.txt

Update: part II is now online:
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/06/04/opinion/your_take/yourtake2.txt

payoff

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:30:49 -0600

The TG Daily has a nice article here about my professor that I worked with through my undergraduate physics degree. Our main areas of research were this thermoacoustic cooling and quazicrystaline thin film sputtering. It’s really cool to see the research move into commercialization. Go Symko!