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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

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I am a co-founder of Notches, an early stage startup currently based in NYC. We are building a free, open reviews network that anyone can participate in and anyone can build on top of. You can find out more on our official blog.

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Jul

2008

The Exaggerated Death of Voicemail

Mike Arrington said “ voicemail is dead ”, and I used to agree. I hated voicemail forever but it was a reality we had to live with. (I’ve made my suggestions in the past on how to leave good voicemail ). The thing that changed that all for me was voice-to-text voicemail conversion. I couldn't live...

Posted Jul 09 2008, 03:37 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Productivity, Business

Jul

2008

Why you SHOULDN’T start a tech company in Silicon Valley

There’s been a bit of back and forth on what the best place to start a technology company is these days. The conventional wisdom these days is that the place to start and run a technology company is Silicon Valley. The key reasons put forth to justify this is money, talent, and expertise. If you’re...

Posted Jul 08 2008, 09:00 AM by Tim with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Rants, Business, Entrepreneurship, NYC, Startup, Venture Capital, NextNY, Notches

Jul

2008

Google is “fast becoming just another company”

An interesting article about the backlash with Google increasing its day care costs ( via Alex ). Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google’s day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company’s plan to raise the amount...

Posted Jul 05 2008, 10:38 AM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Business, Microsoft, Google, Startup, Facebook

Jul

2008

Is IIS7 on Vista not serving static content?

If you add IIS7 and ASP.NET on Vista, many of the common HTTP modules are not installed by default – including the one for static content. The problem is that it doesn’t return a 404 or other error, but rather zero-byte files. If you’re seeing empty files returned for CSS, images and JScript files, this...

Posted Jul 02 2008, 02:10 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Software Development, Vista, Microsoft, .NET, Programming, Knowledge Base

Jun

2008

Technology really only matters when it creates new possibilities

I've gotten a bad rap over the years as a "gadget guy". Every time something new is released, people have come to expect me to have it. I'm definitely a gadget guy, but I think people often miss why I buy gadgets. Unlike, say, Alex , you'll rarely, if not never, see me buy something...

Posted Jun 22 2008, 09:03 AM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Technology, Rants, Gadgets

Jun

2008

We are looking to hire good developers

Notches is hiring developers . We’re looking to bring on developers to be part of the core engineering team. We want people that can contribute to the product in a myriad of ways beyond coding. We want people who can ask the tough questions and challenge us. We want people who are not afraid to take...

Posted Jun 12 2008, 01:47 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Software Development, Personal, Web 2.0, C#, .NET, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Programming, Notches

Jun

2008

Explaining copyright with a drawing

While obviously a bit of an oversimplification, I think Erik’s drawing really does a great job of capturing the base dynamics of how copyright works ( via Dan ). Basically, anything in the left circle requires permission; anything in the middle requires justification under the Fair Use test; and...

Posted Jun 10 2008, 08:33 AM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Intellectual Property, Copyright, Law

Jun

2008

Serial Entrepreneurs and High Valuations

I wrote in the past that sometimes you can take too much money - doing so creates certain expectations for an exit that might not be achievable and limits your flexibility. In the context of the discussion last week, I think it's important to highlight that these economics are not always the fault...

Posted Jun 09 2008, 09:06 AM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Web 2.0, Business, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Venture Capital, NextNY

Jun

2008

Simultaneous Discovery and its impact on stealth mode

We’ve talked a lot about the anti-stealth movement here and on the nextNY list, and the topic has resurfaced again recently thanks to Brad Burnham’s post about the advantages of being open . I noticed that, at least anecdotally, there was a correlation between how open entrepreneurs were...

Posted Jun 08 2008, 09:49 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Intellectual Property, Rants, Patent, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Social Behavior, NextNY, Notches

Jun

2008

Give me an “elite” leader, please

Susan Jacoby’s latest article examines how the word “elite” became a slur. Pity the poor word “elite,” which simply means “the best” as an adjective and “the best of a group” as a noun. What was once an accolade has turned poisonous in American public life over the past 40 years, as both the left and...

Posted Jun 07 2008, 06:30 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Rants, Politics

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