From the monthly archives: November 2007

Sorry blogging has been a little slow the last few weeks. We’re busy on numerous fronts. We’re finally settled in to our new office. If you are in the Pioneer Square neighborhood feel free to stop by or invite us for coffee. We also love to host lunch and learn sessions with other startups, who [...]

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We’re ready to expand the team again, for several disciplines, but for this post I’ll focus on software engineers. If you are a phenomenal software engineer, or know one, drop me a note at my first name dot last name at blist.com.  What’s in it for you? 1) You’ll get to work on a really [...]

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Excel is two-dimensional. Columns run horizontally. Rows span vertically. Initially we think of data as having two dimensions as well. In fact, two key terms in database lexicon are rows and columns, just like in Excel. Here’s an example of what an Excel database of some fictitious people might look like: In reality, however, data [...]

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One of the things I love about blogging is that it allows me to share with the world some sense of identity about who blist it. This is the first of what I hope are many annual Thanksgiving posts in which we candidly share some of the things for which we’re thankful. 1) I’m thankful [...]

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What’s it like to work at blist? Well, for comparison, my wife is an engineer at Google, so we can share our impressions of working at blist versus Google: * At Google, you play video games and foosball for entertainment. * At blist, Kevin tells you jokes. * At Google Seattle, you work in Fremont, [...]

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View Larger Map   Pioneer Square is the place to be for Seattle startups. It’s no secret that geographical concentration fosters the creativity, contacts, conversations, and sense of healthy competition that lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures. Since we moved in to Pioneer Square from the wilds of Kirkland last week, it really feels like we [...]

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As many of you know, we recently moved from Kirkland to the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. I wanted to share some of the motivations behind the move. The simple answer is recruiting. This is where the top talent wants to work. We want to hire top talent, so it boosts our chances of hiring [...]

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I’m sure most readers of the blist blog are already passionate TechCrunch readers, but in case you missed it, blist was profiled on TechCrunch today. A lot of you have asked when we’re going to release some screenshots of our application and we agreed to let the cat out of the bag and show a [...]

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