August 2011
3 posts
Made it to Crossfit baby!!
despite a late day emergency at the office, I made it to 6pm crossfit and did the following workout:
Warmup
400m run
Stretching - pigeon, cosak, shoulder rom, good mornings
3 sets of 5 each of kettlebell swings, squats and pull ups
Workout
4 by 400m for time - 1:40 ave
3 sets of:
3 bench press
10 sit-ups
3 ring dips
10 pushups
3 pull ups
10 Russian twists
Good times!!
@Home workout - Tabata and more
Today I didn’t have time to go to the gym or to go out for a run and truth be told, I was having really good momentum downloading mashups from Zune Marketplace, so I decided to stay in for my workout. To get some ideas, I went to crossfitendurance.com and scanned through some of their past workouts. That led me to another site I found called gymnasticswod.com. So between both sites, I came...
Tough Mudder workout
On Friday I gave a presentation at work about my upcoming Tough Mudder event (squaw valley sept 17). The question came to how I’m planning to train to which I had absolutely no idea. I figured I would eventually come up with some sort of plan, but with only 43 days remaining my time was starting to run thin. Since that day (yesterday), I’ve already done 3 workouts and since I’m...
October 2010
2 posts
"If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you...
I watched The Social Network last night and I thought it was a brilliant movie. It did a great job of telling the Facebook story and seemed to capture the underlying characteristics and motivations of all players involved. Yes, I am sure many of the situations were dramatized and made for Hollywood, but given all of the actual true-to-life accusations and settlements, I believe that many of the...
“You know, I was relentless, took a lot of time, I used to say when I was...”
September 2010
1 post
To refer or not to refer
I was a friends house yesterday when the topic turned to referrals. One of the guests asked the host for an attorney, when the host responded with an interesting story.
Here goes:
So the host was working on a real estate deal a few years ago and one of his clients needed an introduction to an attorney. So the guy worked with the attorney and surprise surprise the attorney fucked up. So the...
August 2010
26 posts
"To run or not to run? That is the question"
Well, actually the original Shakespeare quote was:
To be or not to be
But the vein of my existence isn’t my debate tonight. I’m pretty certain of the answer to that one. Or at least I’m certain enough to not debate it.
Today my debate is whether I should run or not to run. I’m training for a marathon and for very practical purposes, I NEED to run tonight. My...
If the wings of a butterfly can...
Ok so everybody has heard the famous quote:
“The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.”
So today I went for a run and well, there’s a lot of time to think about stuff while on a long run. So of all the random things that go through my head, I got to thinking about this quote. I was thinking that if something so...
The World's Toughest Foot Race (pure badassness) →
Just tell me reading this paragraph doesn’t make you feel like the world’s biggest pussy yet at the same time motivate you to run head-first straight through whatever insignificant little hurdle you’re currently working to overcome in your life (at least compared to the badassness of this event).
AdventureCORPS, Inc., an event production firm specializing in ultra-endurance...
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Founders Showcase was OK (I'd give it a solid 3)
Earlier this week, I attended the Founder’s Showcase, an event put on by the guys behind TheFunded, a community site driving transparency in the venture capital business. This event featured 10 pitching startups and keynote presentations by Jason Calacanis, Founder and CEO of Mahalo and Elon Musk, Founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.
So the presentations, the startups and the judges were...
Sorry twitter but this has got to be one of the worst recruiting videos I’ve ever seen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6epAkC9wg
Congrats Matt Damon, I mean Max Levchin (@mlevchin) on your exit to Google. A bit lower than your earlier 500M… http://fb.me/C2WqxcEy
Snoop partners with Frito Lay “Hollr at me and let’s make some Snoop Dogg Chips and sell em at the Snoopermarket” #youknowyouvesoldoutwhen
Just curious whether I am the only one who thinks this Twitter recruiting video is horrible and will actually turn… http://fb.me/xnJziplm
working on my blog post summarizing last night’s #foundershowcase. turns out I have more to say than I thought
Listening to elon musk talk about how he invested all his savings to keep tesla alive. #respect
Jason calacanis is about to start speaking. MC is pumping up his open angel program and angel investors in general #foundershowcase
Per Jason: Two ways to attract angel investors - join their conversation via social media or befriend their friends. #foundersinstitite
At the founders showcase - the startups are about to start their pitches.
VC’s from Javelin, Charles River and Morgenthaler are judging.
Planning to run a raffle at The Founders Showcase tonight. Need some give away ideas. What’s a good recruiting… http://fb.me/C0jxXlRB
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Sponsoring the Founders Showcase Tonight
BINC Onsite will be one of the few companies sponsoring the Founders Showcase this evening which will be held at the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley.
On Tuesday, August 3rd, ten companies elected by over 14,500 registered CEO Members of TheFunded.com will present to over 300 investors, founders, and members of the press in Silicon Valley. A panel of experts will critique the pitches, and...
CIA, Google Invest Future Of Web Monitoring http://ow.ly/18oyHe (via @svartling). Sounds like Minority report!!
July 2010
18 posts
Great directory of twitter lists - go nuts!! http://mashable.com/twitterlists/
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I will not let Crowdsourcing pass me by
I am now thinking in terms of crowdsourcing and I love it. It’s the same effect I had after reading Tim Ferris 4 hour workweek where all of a sudden I wanted to outsource everything to the Phillipines. So 3 years ago when I first read that book, I had all these plans to outsource various functions of my business and life. Literally, I was ready to outsource my data entry, my receptionist...
I am reading tweets by @playdom on twitter.com with the Tweetbeat Firsthand browser addon http://bit.ly/9xJyzN
I think this is an awesome acquisition for Playdom, Disney and the world of Social Gaming. With Disney’s brands… http://fb.me/wSNrngNn
BuzzLogic gets 8.8 Million in Funding. Plans to do some hiring in Sales and Product Development…. http://fb.me/CsIqvsvR
Great writeup by David Hornik from August Capital about his first 10 years in Venture Capital… http://fb.me/CAEoqww5
Why I moved to the Bay
I arrived in the Bay Area last Wednesday (over 1 week ago already) and although I have come up with all kinds of interesting topics to write about (yes I have been keeping a list), I have yet to write my first blog post.
So here goes!! For my official first post, I thought I would share my reasons for moving up here. I moved here to grow a new business - plain and simple. Everything else in my...
Why I moved to the Bay - Personal Reasons
I’ve come to appreciate and even like a lot of things about the Bay Area as compared to my experiences in LA - people are nicer, people have better follow through, people are less materialistic and pretentious, weather is a solid 15 degrees cooler, landscape is waaay more green and lush, more outdoorsy lifestyle (lots of people riding bikes, etc.), more ethnic diversity (or at least a...
Spending my day looking for Big Data Platform Architects for Kosmix
Quick Facebook Test
I want posts from my Tumblr Blog to post onto my Facebook and for people on Facebook to be able to click on the link and be taken back to my blog. Let’s see if this works.
ellealison asked: So what do you think of the Bay Area so far?
At the crowdflower crowdsourcing meetup in sf.
ASKBINC Question - Going to an interview with XXX for a readership research associate (1 yr.assignment with… http://fb.me/DgjKrtuI
RT @wvca: Foursquare talking to Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft about search deals http://bit.ly/a5OLsG by @Anwaraizer http://ff.im/nUfQ1
The next big flow of Real Time Data - #Foursquare looking for search partners ala #twitter and #facebook. On that… http://fb.me/AcWr2Hio
Need 3 more followers to get to 900. Follow @binc if you’re on twitter.
Will be attending this CrowdFlower meetup later today. They were founded by Lukas Biewald and Chris van Pelt -… http://fb.me/BPkGYavo
has a lot of good things in the works. stay tuned!!