ya know it's hard out here for a pimp when he tryin' to get his money for the rent. for the cadillacs and gas money spent cuz' a whole lot of bitches talkin' shit . well for what it's worth, i did make rent this month, G. but lemme tell you, it ain't easy being a Web 2.0 P-I-...

Steve Blank  is a pretty sharp guy, and one of the best folks in the valley on technology marketing.  He teaches at both Stanford and Haas/Berkeley, and besides being an academic he's been involved in several startups and actually knows his shit.  His book "The Four Steps to the ...

wow.  gotta say, this guy has balls... as in cojones the size of cantaloupes. Dave Cortright , if i'm fighting a guerrilla war and need a design done that will kill El Presidente, you are my man. best slide i've ever seen to get a point across... bar none . a great vision is: focused on people ...

my former PayPal colleague Yishan Wong , now an ass-kicking, name-taking engineer at Facebook, lays the "Walled Garden" rebuttal smackdown on Kottke, Arrington, et al.   you go, Yishan... you just go. look for more news on the Facebook front coming in a few weeks at the 2008 Face...

StarFUCKs. Originally uploaded by davemc500hats to whomever can promise i never have to enter forgotten password flow ever again: PLEASE ENSLAVE ME NOW.  (screen capture while trying to register my acct/card to get free wifi @ Starbucks) thank fuck you very much, Starbucks. ps - i used to work ...

(so admittedly this is a rather rough post that came out of some comments i was writing up over on a TechCrunch post about the Jerry Yang intvw at D conf... thought i'd just them up here as well) first, let me start by noting i think the Yahoo SearchMonkey initiative is generally a good direction to...

ok, so even after all these announcements about data portability, no one seems to understand what the hell i keep talking about re: using email & IM messaging data stores to improve targeting & make friend lists work better.  i admit it's a bit inside-baseball, but it's actually pretty ...

Congrats to Rashmi, Jon, Amit & team... SlideShare just raised $3M from Venrock :) I can't begin to say how proud i am of the SlideShare team , and what an honor it is to be an advisor & small angel investor in their venture.   it's also a terrific product that i was fan of long be...

Un. Be. lievable. Act I: "Iron Mike" Arrington rents out SF Metreon AMC Theater for private TechCrunch screening of Iron Man for ~500-600 geek / comic fanboys, subsidizes costs so it's only $1 for the Tony Stark faithful to attend (fyi, TC works with AMC & Paramount to buy the tickets ...

  Swear Like a Pirate. Win $50K for Cambodian Kids    Originally uploaded by davemc500hats Beth Kanter didn't sleep for 2 days, and proved that one passionate individual can make an amazing amount of difference.  In this case, over $50K worth of difference .  holy candystrip...