July 2010
8 posts
Zach Klein's List of Very Good Internet Jobs:... →
Jonathan Marcus was Vimeo’s first GM and is responsible for helping Jakob Lodwick and I recruit most of the talent that was the original Vimeo team. He taught me critical lessons in organizational scaling and he continues to impress me with the success of his pragmatic approach to…
List of Very Good Internet Jobs →
A new Tumblr I’m publishing.
WatchThe first Box arrived from the D-Link Factory
The Man Who Planted Trees →
This simple, gorgeous and very touching film is worth 30 minutes in peace and quiet.
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
Have a...
June 2010
1 post
WatchWaking up in a tree.
May 2010
9 posts
“It will contain all the news on every sphere of human interest, and the news...”
– Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, describing their new magazine, TIME, to potential investors in 1923.
This sums up most of today’s media startups, too.
American Apparel's shares have shed 60% of their... →
Cotton Caught in a Global Price War →
I have contacts in the cotton and t-shirt industries left over from my Busted Tees days. One of my guys wrote to say:
We are being told by our suppliers that there may be some disruption in supply and delivery of t-shirts this Spring and early Summer.
There is specifically a worldwide shortage of 30 singles cotton yarn - which is the yarn that American Apparel uses to make the shirts we are...
April 2010
10 posts
Cabin Porn →
I use this Tumblr to keep track of architecture and furniture that keeps me daydreaming about the farm I will build someday. We all need a carrot.
“Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are...”
– The shock of the old: Welcome to the elderly age
Mux Mool - Lady Linda
My Svpply →
Now part of my universal feed.
Balkan Beat Box - My Baby
I heard this song on...
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
11 posts
“Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a...”
– Anonymous member of Royal Geographical Society, quoted by David Grann in The Lost City of Z.
Nicholas Felton gave me the book and I can’t put it down. It’s an account of Col. Percy Harrison Fawcet, one of the last great explorers commissioned to chart the thousands of blanks present on...
Anonymous asked: Is Spurd launching anytime soon?
Anonymous asked: Who would you recommend (can be an individual or small shop) in Brooklyn or downtown Manhattan for UI/UX contract work to build exceptionally sharp reporting/stats/analytics interfaces. The client is a VC-backed startup.
Anonymous asked: what was your major in college?
Anonymous asked: You, and the rest of the CV founders seem to write frequently about the internet as not being a worthy business idea, yet you have certainly made a more than sustainable living, and perhaps more importantly, developed a great reputation for yourself to further your career, off of internet business ventures, do you think this is a recent phenomenon? Was it, or did it at least seem, different when...
heykurt asked: Will you be visiting any other countries in the Middle East?
Boxee's response to NBC's president and CEO, Jeff... →
The US Congress asks NBC, "What about Boxee?" →
This is particularly fun for us.
NEW MIDLAKE ALBUM!!! →
Listen to the album free on Lala … It’s a near perfect soundtrack for February.
January 2010
4 posts
Local Natives - World News
Fuck Buttons - The Lisbon Maru
This is good.
WatchQuick peak at the hidden branding on the Boxee Box on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
December 2009
13 posts
