Look at “Bubble 1.0″ (as it’s known in the relatively young tech industry: the 1997-2000 tech-media-telecom bubble and the general IPO / equity bubble that went along with it).
1. A real change occurred — the uptake of Internet technology — and created some initial successes (think Netscape IPO). This [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2007’
Bubble Factors: Real Change, Easy Credit, and Self-Interested Lies
Textmate Cheat Sheet
Option+PgDn Page down while moving cursor (caret) Esc Autocomplete Command+/ Comment/Uncomment (Ruby, at least) Ctrl+Command+V Paste without reindenting
VCs and the Naughty Bits
I spotted a piece by Paul Kedrosky today during a blog-feeds-catchup-session where Paul talks about a sort of “(minimum) two degree of separation” rule that VCs maintain between themselves and the sex industry. (Quotes above for my words, not his.) In other words: benefiting from infrastructure, transport, payment mechanisms — [...]
Liquidation Preferences: A Response to Leo Dirac
In a recent blog entry, Leo Parker Dirac poses the question of the fairness of liquidation preferences in VC financings of startups. He’s going to be delivering a lightning talk based on it tonight at Ignite Seattle.
(To those of you who don’t know, liquidation preferences, or prefs, are [...]
Rails form_tag Changes in Rails 1.2
I recently updated my dev machine (Mac OS X) to the latest Rails gems, and was getting deprecation warnings for using form_tag in its old, non-block, pre-Rails 1.2 way.
Then, in moving between my development and acceptance-testing boxes (you do have a mirror of your production environment running as an acceptance testing [...]
God Help You If You Get Derailed: "Model is Deprecated"
The comprehensible but often superfluous model method in Rails is used in an ActionController to tell it about an ActiveRecord model that it ought to have loaded in order to have the AR classes available to it. It’s kind of got the feeling of a require or a use in Perl. [...]