From the monthly archives: October 2007
As I blogged previously, Justin, Matt & I from blist attended the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department’s annual intern career day today. It was a terrific event that far exceeded my expectations. These are some of my random thoughts: 1) I was blown away by the turnout both in terms of the [...]
Continue Reading →I spent a couple of days in Menlo Park and Palo Alto. Here are ten random thoughts: 1) The area around Stanford University is among the most beautiful in the world. What a wonderful place physically, geologically, geographically, meteorologically. 2) I grew up in the bay area, lived in Orange County from 1996 to 2005 [...]
Continue Reading →blist is starting to build some mind-share in the technical community. Recently, we have gotten some nice words from some smart people like: John Cook at the Seattle P-I Stacey Higginbotham at Tech Confidential / The Deal Andy Sack, serial entrepreneur We’re really excited about blist, and it’s nice to find we are not alone! [...]
Continue Reading →Please forgive this slightly more personal post; it’s Saturday. It highlights an important issue for startups – having good life balance and weighing opportunity costs. blist is my second startup, so my family has lived through the long hours and dedication it takes to get a successful company off the ground. My wife, Karen, is [...]
Continue Reading →Next week I’ll be at the Paul Allen Center at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department at a recruiting event. One of my two objectives is to meet a few top notch computer science students who might want to come work for blist as summer interns next May. To a startup, May [...]
Continue Reading →Last week was a big one for blist. We took a small step towards a future of meeting accelerated milestones and great features rolling into blist. We added another software engineer to the team. Big deal you say. Startups add software engineers all the time and it’s not newsworthy. This time was different. It was [...]
Continue Reading →John Cook’s write-up on blist in yesterday’s Seattle P-I continues to circulate. I thought I’d chime in one more time and respond to a few comments and questions I’ve been getting via email. First, I think people may be overly influenced by the title of John’s post. I would argue that Excel is the world’s [...]
Continue Reading →This morning was fun. I was interviewed by John Cook of the Seattle P-I, who tracks the Seattle VC and startup scene. He wanted to dig in and learn a little more about blist now that we are starting to share more detail about what we’re doing. You can read his write-up here. Sooner or [...]
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