Congrats to Ramit Sethi, I Will Teach You to be Rich is #1 book on Amazon

March 24th, 2009 10 Comments Noah

After I graduated Berkeley I wanted to meet some new interesting people. A friend said I should meet this Ramit guy. We agreed on a time and right when he came up to me and told me a joke about his name and women. I was hooked.
Fast Forward, 5 years later and he is [...]

Gambit is now Live

March 11th, 2009 14 Comments Noah

After 2 years of working at my startup (kickflip) we’ve released what we’ve been working on to the public, Gambit.

There are many stories of how my 2 partners and I got to this point, which I’ll share later. For now, Gambit is a payments engine for social games and communities.
For a more in-depth review [...]

The Ass Wiping Business

February 18th, 2009 22 Comments Noah

I was having some delicious Ryowa ramen with a friend in Mountain View today when he asked me questions about an LED business his friend runs. I immediately quipped, it’s no ass wiping business. Oy vey, here goes Noah again. What does that mean?
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People will ALWAYS need to wipe their asses regardless [...]

We are hiring and “interesting” job descriptions…

February 11th, 2009 10 Comments Noah

Okay, I am swamped with work and my startup is hiring two people. Though you guys could help:
link
PHP Programmer
- Must be able to do the work of 3 Americans or 10 outsourcers:)
Data Manager
- Must love bitch work and have a good attitude.
Opportunity for growth, make lots of money and fun included. Email me, job [at] [...]

Startup Stories, Jason Satler founder of Iwearyourshirt.com

January 5th, 2009 10 Comments Noah

I think I met Jason while at Mint.com and he’s doing something cool with this new iwearyourshirt.com. I feel like I’ve heard of this type of idea before but I was impressed when he said he has 200 of 365 days sold already! Here’s his story on wearing your companies t-shirt:

1- Why are you doing [...]

My Gmail was hacked and what to do next time…

December 31st, 2008 16 Comments Noah

Two nights ago while merrily enjoying some two buck chuck and responding to emails I got an email saying my personal server password reset happened. Strange. And then 5 minutes later I was kicked out of my gmail. Weird. I tried logging back in. Nothing. Fuck. Wtf is going on. Am I hacked? Youp. Shit! [...]