Archive for: Business Reviews

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: 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) [...]

Book Report: The Art of Happiness

January 29th, 2008 17 Comments Noah

Background: I think we are all challenged at what really makes us happy (wow, that’s optimistic). We want a guidebook to give us that answer and unfortunately I doubt we will ever find it. In the mean time it’s exploring new ways and hopes to find our own happiness. This book is a great way [...]

Spend $500 of Noah's Money

March 26th, 2007 12 Comments Noah

I was recently at an amazing dinner at Aqua SF with Andrew, Akash and Dave (thanks for treating!) where everyone at the table was using Prosper.com. I heard the name before and thought it was some shady place where loans happen. IGNORED. Nothing really happened when I saw them on sites a few months back. [...]

Exclusive: AllFreeCalls.net Launches, Make Free Calls Anywhere from Your Phone

January 11th, 2007 85 Comments Noah

Congrats to my friend Pat who just launched All Free Calls. A free way to call anywhere in the world from your own phone. Dial 712 858 8094 Enter 011, Country Code & Phone # Enjoy free phone calls to anywhere. How they are going to make money? Who knows. Take advantage of the service [...]

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