Got an email from Change.org inviting me to sign two competing petitions. One of them is to ban "illegal" Uber in one state of Australia, and the other is to change the rules to allow Uber in another state. On face value, the numbers are pretty clearly
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This summer my fiancee and I took a vacation to Europe, and we decided to go to Majorca (also spelled Mallorca) for our "relax by the Med" part of our trip. One of the hardest things to work out what was how to avoid the hordes of chavs
Entrepreneurship
TL;DR: the ecosystem of early-stage investors (angels, seed and VC) has a structure and set of incentives that creates ideal (or even necessary) points in a SaaS startups life for raising capital. Unfortunately, changes in the ecosystem have created what I call a "Death Zone" between Seed
Economics
In summing up the situation in Europe, the APM's Marketplace show today made an interesting point: while the US and the EU both have a Monetary union, only the US has a Fiscal union - in short, the Federal Govt in the US raises taxes from all over
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TL;DR: renewing your E3 visa in Canada is possible, but there's a bit of a quirk that means rolling the dice. This an outline of how I did it in Vancouver in late June 2015. Almost four years ago I wrote a long and detailed blog post
After announcing our first institutional round of funding for AffinityLive last week and highlighting why we deliberately raised a small round of capital, a number of entrepreneurs reached out asking the same basic question: why is the belief that raising as much money as you can any time you can
After getting a bunch of great publicity (thanks Techcrunch, SMH and many others) over the last few days following our funding announcement, I've been inundated by recruiters reaching out to let me know about the great candidates they have. The reply to all of them is the same:
Today we announced we've raised a $2 million dollar round of funding for AffinityLive. More than three years after our launch, this is the first institutional money we've taken; until now, we've built a crazy-ambitious product and worldwide client base through bootstrapping. Over these
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While the email campaigns are still as constant as ever, it has been a couple of months since I noticed a true face-palm email campaign. Thankfully, the idiots at Varazo sent us a gold medal Inside Sales Idiot email this morning. Feast your eyes on this beauty! Aside from the
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This post was originally an email written to the StartMate 2015 companies soon to be arriving in San Francisco to pitch investors and raise their seed rounds. Hopefully this information will remain useful for other folks following in their footsteps and coming to this great but confusing city as wide-eyed
I've been a user of Windows since the version 3.0, but this weekend I finally broke up with Windows. While there were plenty of times Windows had frustrated me in the past (Vista anyone?) the debacle that is Windows 8 was the final straw, and I'
This one sold itself as an ISI nominee from the subject - "Albany Ford Subaru - Flagged No Response". As much as I love getting an email with subject of the sender prominently displayed (hint: it is better to write a subject that your audience cares about), the