I had no idea. I just now saw this. And this blog post is from a while ago.
Greplin: The First Y Combinator Company To Get Me Excited
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Showing posts with label Greplin. Show all posts
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Chris Dixon Kind Of Person
Image by Zach Klein via FlickrThere Are Two Kinds Of People In The WorldThis blog post by Chris Dixon has been making the rounds of the blogosphere. It has generated many comments at the blog itself. I happened to see the post soon after it came out, and I was the first or second person to leave a comment. I returned a few hours later, and there were already close to 100 comments. Obviously the post had sparked something.
Future Of The Internet: Easy, Says Dixon
One of my favorite Chris Dixon posts is equally short, it is one where Chris is relaying as to how the Internet stands to transform anything and everything.
Adding Intelligence To The Biggest Screen: TV
Nuggets From The Paulson Auditorium
Owning Equity, Owning House
Top VC Bloggers: The Numbers Don't Look Right
Chris Dixon: A New Breed Early Stage Investor
Will Online Ads Rise To The Occasion?
Venture Capital Segmentation
Event At Hunch: Gender Talk (3)
Event At Hunch: Gender Talk (4)
Is It A Bubble?
So Chris Dixon says there are two kinds of people in the world. My third comment at the post says, yes, there are, one is the rotten kind, wait, what are we talking about here?
Chris Dixon: There Are Two Kinds Of People In The World
You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. It means starting with no money, no help, no one who believes in you (except perhaps your closest friends and family), and building an organization from a borrowed cubicle with credit card debt and nowhere to sleep except the office. It almost invariably means being dismissed by arrogant investors who show up a half hour late, totally unprepared and then instead of saying “no” give you non-committal rejections like “we invest at later stage companies.” It means looking prospective employees in the eyes and convincing them to leave safe jobs, quit everything and throw their lot in with you. It means having pundits in the press and blogs who’ve never built anything criticize you and armchair quarterback your every mistake. It means lying awake at night worrying about running out of cash and having a constant knot in your stomach during the day fearing you’ll disappoint the few people who believed in you and validate your smug doubters.Wow, 237 comments and counting. This is like of those Fred Wilson posts about Android.
I don’t care if you succeed or fail, if you are Bill Gates or an unknown entrepreneur who gave everything to make it work but didn’t manage to pull through. The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the line, made commitments to investors, employees, customers and friends, and tried – against all the forces in the world that try to keep new ideas down – to make something new.
In the same vein I am throwing a challenge to Chris. You, of all people, especially after this blog post, should be able to recognize an entrepreneur when you saw one. I am not only claiming I am one, I am claiming I am a big one. When the Google guys started they had this PageRank thing. I am claiming I have something similar but it is not in software, it is in group dynamics. When I say Group Dynamics I mean the offline component to GroupOn, that would be one small example.
I want you to bet 100K on me based on a 10 million valuation for my microfinance startup. I want a one page legal document like you say you like. I want to know if you can recognize me.
The Google/Facebook Of Microfinance
To Iran, With Love (1)
My Non Personhood Of 2009, 2010
Fred Wilson has repeatedly longed for an iconic tech company to emerge out of New York. Well, I am going to build that iconic company. Come along for the ride. I will compete with Greplin in your world in terms of market value.
Consider this a blog post mail. As opposed to an email. I think this is the most efficient way to communicate. And it leaves open options to meet in person, get on the phone, on Skype, and the like. I can take you out for dumplings, if you like.
Doing Two Tech Startups
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
48 Hours
It was two days before Demo Day at Y Combinator and Daniel Gross had moved from product to product like I had changed majors at college. The guy had nothing for Demo Day. The textbook thing to do for Paul Graham was to say, you know what, you had your 12 weeks, tough, you are out. But Paul Graham took the road not taken, and that made all the difference.
Greplin: The First Y Combinator Company To Get Me Excited
Greplin happened during the final 48 hours.
Paul Graham: Disrupt
Paul Graham: Y Combinator
Big Churns In The VC Industry
Paul Graham, Brad Feld, Me, BBC
Image by NandorFejer via Flickr
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Jessica Mah: The Most Promising 19 Year Old Tech Entrepreneur In America
Or maybe she is 20 now. But still. Daniel Gross and Jessica Mah you have you to watch out for. Jessica's InDinero, the Mint.com for businesses, is headed for a hundred million plus kind of exit in a few years. Daniel will be swimming in the billion dollar range, if only because his product, Greplin, is just more fundamental. But Jessica has started by monetizing from day one. Three years from now they will not be by the roadside, a has been. They will be bigger than anything we can imagine right now.
I got to know Jessica in New York where she took over a MeetUp I had started and had kind of let go. It had become sort of defunct, and she resurrected it, and I started attending it. I was not aware of her Y Combinator stint. But then I read about her in Inc. magazine. And I shot her an email. Is this you? Yes, it's me, she said.
I got to know Jessica in New York where she took over a MeetUp I had started and had kind of let go. It had become sort of defunct, and she resurrected it, and I started attending it. I was not aware of her Y Combinator stint. But then I read about her in Inc. magazine. And I shot her an email. Is this you? Yes, it's me, she said.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Google Is Messing Up Google With Social
Image via CrunchBaseI don't want to get into the details. But I liked it much better that Google dealt with the content farms than I am liking Google's clumsy efforts to add social to search. Those two don't go together. The best information, by definition, will be with people I don't know. Facebook has not grown at Google's expense. Facebook's rise has been to fill the social void. Most people most of the time just want to talk soap. They don't want to be educating themselves all day. And that's Facebook.
Google's best bet is to stay an information company. So, say, did you digitize all the books yet? Android is sexy, Chrome is sexy. Google's Facebook envy is misplaced and unnecessary. Social? She just is not into you.
Image via CrunchBaseI have been alarmed the past few days. You do a search on Google, and the first page is okay. And the subsequent pages are littered with your own blog posts. It is flattering, but that is not what I want from Google. Google should keep attempting search in its pure form.
On the other hand, just like they have a real time search thing for Twitter, they might create a separate stand alone search for social. That might work. But that's Greplin, no?
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