Web 2.0 Expo - We Got It For Cheap

In San Francisco this week for Web 2.0 Expo - and I can guarantee with 95% confidence that we spent less cash than any other exhibitor - We Got It For Cheap

Ask me how!

Service Learning Through Jihad

My brother just got back from a trip to India arranged by his high school. In the 1980's, Saudi Arabian teenagers would go on service trips to Afghanistan to train as Mujaheddin in places like Tora Bora:

"Their commitment to the Afghans resembled that of American students who spend a few days a year hammering houses together for the poor. They might be moved by altruism, but they also sought a touch of cool."

From: The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll.

A Little Bit Like Family

Top Five Startup Dev Tensions

Kevin has a great post up describing the five primary tensions inherent in developing a new web application. If you take Kevin's post, and execute on all five points, you'll have a success on your hands.

Ad Copy, Quant Trading, Shakespeare, Chimps

While Pan Troglodytes might be able to write Shakespeare, don't bet on advertising copywriters being able to design trading algorithms:

My Favorite Spam Ever

Advertising Posts: Fred Wilson, Andrew Chen

Two great advertising posts in the last couple of days from:

Fred Wilson and Andrew Chen

Lots of people read both of these blogs, so I am not really doing a lot of unearthing here, but definitely voting for these insights and saving them for myself by linking here.

I have a strong interest in the intersection of advertising as art and advertising as science - both posts relate to this area.