Dailymile.com launches, go get healthy

December 19th, 2008 5 Comments Noah

I am back in the bay area for the holidays and loving the cold weather. Anyways, while I was in Austin I had the chance to meet Ben & Kelly of Dailymile.com who I met through a Eric Stephens of Mahalo and BeerMenus. We quickly became good friends and I’m proud to see them launch [...]

Startup Stories: Pharmahelper.com aims for lower drug prices

October 30th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

Pharmahelper is a drug search engine that helps you find the lowest prices for prescription drugs. Huge market, check. Competition, not too much online. Great margins, yuop. I got a chance to talk to the founders and here’s their story.

What gave you the idea to get into it?
We were interested in starting up our [...]

Why Google should buy Yelp? And how wrong I was;(

October 27th, 2008 21 Comments Noah

I was just adding another bookmark to Yelp.com and realized they added some Google ads to their site. See pic below. I really hate when people make wild predictions about someone should buy someone so I’ll apologize ahead of time. I was talking to someone yesterday who was saying Google was dumb to buy YouTube. [...]

Startup Stories: SsasyChic.com founder, Crystal Marchand

October 17th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

Recently my business partner’s wife Crystal quit her day job teaching to explore one of her passions, fashion. Many people are unhappy with there day jobs and just sit in there cubicles and do nothing. I was impressed that she took the plunge to try something new and here’s her story starting ssasychic.com a fashion [...]

Startup Stories: AntiClothes founder, Bryan Hewitt

October 9th, 2008 22 Comments Noah

I thought it would be interesting to interview some other people doing start-ups. I am sure many of you have seen all the shirt companies out there, Threadless (they rule), Busted Tees, etc…So to find a new one launching I was a bit skeptical. Let’s here what the founder of AntiClothes, Bryan Hewitt has to [...]

Exclusive: Bankaholic sells to Bankrate for 15 million and no one noticed;/

September 26th, 2008 25 Comments Noah

All day on Techcrunch, Techmeme and other tech sites there is a good coverage and some not so good about start-ups that are doomed for failure. Surprisingly, they all missed the story of my resident in the dorms from Berkeley, Johns Wu, who by himself created bankaholic.com and sold it to bankrate.com (a public company) [...]