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Become a member of Founder’s Card

May 19, 2010 – 4:31 pm

Most discount/membership cards are either a hoax or a phishing scam. Not this one. I want to tell you about my experiences with the Founder’s Card. It’s a members-only community for industry leaders and visionaries, providing elite access to the entrepreneurial lifestyle and business opportunities. One of my colleagues turned me on to this, and [...]

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SimpleGeo, here I come

March 22, 2010 – 3:38 pm

I am very excited to help build a new office in San Francisco for SimpleGeo, a new location-based infrastructure company built by Joe Stump and Matt Galligan. I’ve really enjoyed working at Ning for the past 7 months; it’s not easy to leave such an awesome place and team. I’ve learned valuable lessons here in [...]

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Why marketing isn’t bullshit

February 23, 2010 – 2:47 pm

Alex Hunter from FOWA 2010: Why the hell should I care about marketing? I’m a developer. Marketing is the cancer on the nutsack of creativity. You cannot afford to take your eye off your brand for one second. No excuses. This is 100% relevant to our industry because we are directly responsible for changing it. [...]

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Wanted: PHP Application Developer at Ning

December 11, 2009 – 12:19 pm

I’ve been working at Ning for 3 months now, and it’s never felt like “work”. One of the cool things about working here is that we have a lot of engineers; both Java and PHP. And they move very fast. Everyone is in IRC channels all the time talking about projects (#product), managing deployments (#maint), [...]

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Varkfarts: because there really are dumb questions

December 7, 2009 – 12:08 pm

I’m a huge fan of the subjective search site Aardvark. Anyone can ask a question, and Aardvark looks for the best person to answer that question based on their knowledge. A couple weeks ago, a co-worker of mine sent me a skitch to a funny question she received on Aardvark. I immediately thought, “let’s make [...]

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