How Compete.com kicked everyones Ass

September 4th, 2008 12 Comments Noah

If you haven’t noticed in the past 4 months slowly all the techies, bloggers, VCs, soccer moms, etc… refer to compete.com for all site traffic.

WTF happened to Alexa? Remember them, we use to clamor over those #s for our sites and others to prove that we are worth some valuation .
And before that a few [...]

How do you make new friends? (and I moved…)

September 2nd, 2008 32 Comments Noah

I have talked about this issue with many people over the years. When you move to a new place, how do you make friends? On many social networking sites its easy to list and index all the friends you currently have. But what about the friends you don’t have yet…
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If I didn’t mention [...]

Is your website broke?

August 20th, 2008 8 Comments Noah

With our new start-up we have tried so many different ways to monetize. Eventually, I asked my friend Rachel if she could pull together top advertisers and we could have a Community Next::Monetize.
Some great companies are going to be there: Google, Yahoo!, Myspace, Imeem, Photobucket, Slide, RockYou, Flixster and more…
Also, I am looking forward to [...]

Here we go again…Triathlon

August 19th, 2008 17 Comments Noah

Last year I trained and ran the Napa Valley Marathon with you guys. It was great! This year I have been training for the Santa Barbara Triathlon: 1 mile swim, 34 mile bike ride and 10 mile run. Insane? Yes. Fun? At times. Why am I doing it? Makes working out more enjoyable.
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Should you give discounts?

August 14th, 2008 17 Comments Noah

Fortunately, my car and motorcycle have both broken within the week. Yay! Now, my mom is driving me to meetings;) Anyways, I was at JP Automotive (car mechanics) and trying to get a deal. Our conversation went like this:
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Noah: “JP, I am broke, poor and hungry. Please can I get a discount.”
JP: “No.”
Noah: [...]

Tired of the Cube Life?

August 4th, 2008 5 Comments Noah

While I was in Argentina I was fortunate enough to reconnect with Cesar Gonzalez who I met briefly at a Twiistup in LA. It’s funny at events how you meet so many people, follow up with a few but you never get to know them or care to. Luckily, I got to get to know [...]