TJ's WeblogTechnology, Venture Capital and EntrepreneurshipMy first ever marathon- October 23, 2007 Nicole and I signed up for the Nike Women&39;s Marathon back in February as we heard so many good things about the event and really wanted to run our first marathon together. So Nicole git pregnant and dropped out but I was still determined. I trained quite a bit during the year and really had a good time. However the last weeks had been rather tricky - complicated by a first a back and then a knee injury plus jetlag traveling to Europe twice. However it was enough I made to the finish line.http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/my_first_ever_marathon.php creative comparison advertising- October 18, 2007 CW used to have all server with a company called thePlanet in Texas (formerly Servermatrix). They deliver good products and have an outstanding customer support. However they got desperate and raised prices, reduced number of operating systems they support drastically and pushed very expensive servers in their sales team. Then Layeredtech came around - in almost the same location (data center might just be minutes away). They offer superb products and choices and ok customer support. We save.http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/creative_comparison_advertising.php Finally Full Feed- October 18, 2007 As you might have noticed we have switched to (ad supported) full feeds here. In the past we had a lot of issues with sites scraping our content from feeds and putting Google Ads around it. Thus generating duplicate content warnings from Google. However we have decided to give it another go. We hope you like it. See full article. Related Entries: SBC says Full Lightspeed Ahead - 27 July 2005 Full Text Feeds - 24 June 2004 Full RSS Feeds - 31 January 2005 YAHOO delivers PIPES to take..http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/finally_full_feed.php The Facebook numbers- October 18, 2007 Cem has numbers about the real size of Facebook - astonishing! Facebook now has more than 42 million active users (double the number one year ago when it opened up registration and growing at more than 200,000 per day since January) More than half of Facebook users are outside of college (85 percent of US college students still use Facebook) More than half of active users return daily (users spend an average of 20 minutes on the site per day) Facebook is the top photo sharing...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/the_facebook_numbers.php A picture post card from California- October 11, 2007 So we got some recent queries about how does it look like working with you and can I trust the good images about California that I saw Surely enough I took my new cam today and decided to brag about our office location a little... We rent office space from the friendly folks at The Angels Forum - they have helped us since day 1. Our fleet of cars has grown a bit too... My favorite lunch place is around the corner... Semra comes back from lunch... And the rest of this office...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/a_picture_post_card_from_california.php Founder Founder Team for European Internet startup needed- October 9, 2007 Here is what I recently posted in Linkedin - but I wanted to let my readers here to have a share (now that I know that Richard Branson is reading my blog too :). There is a business idea I have which has a basic business plan and some existing technology. It needs a business developer and founder that starts the business and gets his head behind the idea. Ecommerce experience is a big help. Funding is probably available for that idea (no big numbers but good enough to develop it for 12...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/founder_founder_team_for_european_internet_startup_needed.... Richard Branson&39;s &39;Losing my virginity&39;- October 5, 2007 So standing in Frankfurt&39;s train station I finally discovered Richard Branson&39;s autobiography "Losing my virginity". It&39;s an amazing book with rich detail about Branson&39;s beginnings in the 70s and 80s and the scaling of &39;the empire&39; after that. Branson has shown appetite for many business and business strategies most analysts would reject immediately. Virgin Atlantic had nothing to do with Virgin Music but still Branson was determined to run both businesses at teh same...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/richard_bransons_losing_my_virginity.php the comforts of some German hotels- October 2, 2007 Traveling through Duesseldorf this beauty of a hotel welcomed us. Most astonishing were the (really not normal) list of amenities.... See full article. Related Entries: Hotels give away Gas coupons - 08 May 2006 (Leider nicht) nach Diktat verreist: Urlaub im BIO-Hotel - 28 Mai 2007 eSuites Hotel re-invents hotel experience - 12 June 2007 W Hotel Westwood Starts Surfing- Internet Style at the Pool - 21 August 2007 Hotels in Best Price Guarantee! Laughter and irritation on the client...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/the_comforts_of_some_german_hotels.php |