Trendspotting: Chocolate + Bacon

April 17th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

The new Starbucks of chocolate has arrived, Voges Chocolate. The days of us being satisfied with $.50 Hersey bars are numbered. Global competition is forcing prices down to $0 on everything (except gas) and I was extremely pleased to find someone going the other way and charging $7.99 a bar! The one I tried was […]

The Beer Diet

April 4th, 2008 17 Comments Noah

I love optimizing things and one of my new favorite things is my body. Yay! Sexy Noah time. Anyways, I wanted to highlight beer optimization or “de” optimizing it. For some reason people don’t realize the big fat ugly things they can cut in business / life to make things better but neglect for some […]

The Money Problem with Facebook / MySpace / hi5 Apps

April 2nd, 2008 17 Comments Noah

As some of you may know I have been building web games for different social networks with some friends for the past few months. I have noticed a downward trend in revenue with apps and wanted to highlight it here. To generate a discussion, ideas and possible solutions:
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Problems:
1- On social networks in general […]

Labor vs. Capital Round 2: kickball

March 14th, 2008 1 Comment Noah

Last time Labor (entrepreneurs) roughed up Capital (venture capitalists) in dodge ball. Hunter, me and David are doing it again with kick ball!
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Register Here (It’s Free & only 30 slots available)
who? Entrepreneurs / Venture Capitalists in the Bay Area
why? Fun times, prizes and the only chance you’ll have to feel better about rejection.
when? […]

Startup Tips: Accounting Help

February 27th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

Last year my startup made some money then realized come year end we have to do accounting. It is/was a bit more tedious (aka boring) then I expected but something that needs to be done and is hardly talked about online.
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Here are somethings I’ve learned:
- Software. If you are cheap use lessaccounting.com […]

Book Report: Difficult Conversations

January 17th, 2008 5 Comments Noah

I read it so you don’t have to.
Background: Do you have a problem confronting your boss? Not sure how to break up with your boyfriend? Unsure of how to talk about something tough. This book talks about difficult conversations (surprise!) and how to handle them (yay!).

Take aways:

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