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Re: Slow Capital

geraldb28 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:19:57 -0000

Not so sure "Get Big Slow" would play out well on Sand Hill :) NASCAR will certainly object (safe money on them digging in). But, I think the airlines have it perfected. Not sure I like this "slow" thing of which you speak. Slow sex? C'mon... seriously?!

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

geraldb28 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:31 -0000

Thought I remembered you weighing in on this not so long ago. I must be a "white hat" pack rat then. I've saved em all (including some of the funnier spam messages) going some ways back. Storage is cheap insurance.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:02:28 -0000

I now use gmail as my official business account. All my email affresses point there and that's where I do all non blackberry email

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:54:31 -0000

I posted about this. I think the post uses the words 'pack rat' in it. So if you want my take on this important issue google 'avc.com "pack rat"'

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

andyswan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:14:26 -0000

Ha no doubt

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

geraldb28 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:13:16 -0000

Keep in mind... we're talking with Mr. Transparency here :) I suspect he's talking gmail acct and not his official business accts. Further suspect Fred's wanting to arbiter which emails are deleted and not pressing the Send then Delete each and every time.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

andyswan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:05:58 -0000

SarbOx is a reason to DELETE all emails, not keep them. Just ask Countrywide and Sen. Dodd :)

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

geraldb28 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:05:59 -0000

Fred, Is there a SarbOx reason we'd want to keep ALL emails? Seems like I recall a situation at a previous employer where what seemed a trivial email exchange turned not-so-trivial at a later date. The key bit of minutiae was irretrievably lost due to aggressive email tending. Could be your Shake Shack emails (or do we call them SHexting?) could be the smoking gun some day. :)

Just a thought/observation. Stay well.

Re: The Way I Work: Marc Lore of Diapers.com

geraldb28 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:23:45 -0000

Ellen's right... Crowded space and getting more congested all the time to be sure (Alice.com, etc). It *DOES* come down to "What's best for the customer" though. Like Zappos, they have their head screwed on straight. Wonder how long it'll be before Bezos and co snap Diapers.com up? Would make a lot of sense at that efficiency.

Can't beat the GREAT domain name either. (Yes... I have domain name envy. Such a geek.)

Re: The NY Startup Scene

fredwilson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:02:02 -0000

I think you should do your startup where you want to live. If that is Tulsa then that is where you shoulkd do it. The issue will come when you want to scale it into a real business with sales, customer service, tech ops, etc. Finding the right talent and the people to manage that talent at scale is simetimes hard outside of the big startup centers like bay area, NYC, seattle, boston, etc

Re: New York City is poised for a tech revival

geraldb28 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:49:06 -0000

To your point about capital efficiency Angus... What does NYC have on flyover country in that dept? It's the capital component of the equation that seems tightholed.

I like that you added Boulder. Toss in Tulsa, Laramie, Little Rock and several dozen others and there's no shortage of talent that are executing the next MONSTER big idea. Just wish the early stage VC would broaden their horizons a bit as the central US has super talent, low cost of living (ie, longer runway) and we're getting it done.

Re: The NY Startup Scene

geraldb28 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:23:20 -0000

NYC certainly has the population and the opportunities to produce talent. Law of large numbers dictates a more predictable, stable pool of talent there. How about the cost of living (as opposed to the quality of living)? Twitter is past that startup stage and barreling into it's next stage of maturity so this may not apply so much to them (or it might)... How does a city like NYC affect the burn rate on capital v. someplace like, oh I don't know... Tulsa? :)

Noah from Twitpic started up here. One guy. Low cost of living. Sean and Adam of Ping.fm... same thing and they're down the hall from me. Vidoop was here (and arguably should have stayed put). There are lots of us doing ambitious bootstrapped startups and getting LOTS more runway out of a lower cost of living. And I'm sure it's that way across the country. Topeka. Fargo. The Long Tail of Startups. Can the ROI on our exits make for a compelling equation for the VC to pay a little more attention to the deals here?

While there's no shortage of potential deal flow in fly over country... I keep hearing from the startup scene here and Kansas City and Oklahoma City and Little Rock that the VC aren't doing many term sheets here because of locale.

What if a quality startup showed eagerness to open an app dev satellite office in Manhattan or Mountain View but remained headquartered in the heartland... Does that change the equation for the VC at all? Board meetings can still happen at the startup's satellite office, etc.

Am honestly curious to know if this tips things. Or, does it really come down to a fundable startup can be anywhere these days (an airplane, a barge, a sailboat or Laramie, WY)?

Re: Salesforce.com (CRM)…Nasdaq’s New Leader?

howardlindzon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:46:01 -0000

thx gerald

Re: Salesforce.com (CRM)…Nasdaq’s New Leader?

howardlindzon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:48:03 -0000

Wow thx

Re: Salesforce.com (CRM)…Nasdaq’s New Leader?

geraldb28 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:36:14 -0000

Howard, 30-day free trial at https://www.salesforce.com/form/trial/freetrial... (five total users)
One of the options on that page is also a 7-day, free trial for "group" which must be >5 users....

Worth the time it will take. We used this at Thrifty Corporate Headquarters and it SAVED OUR ASS at the time. Sales Directors would come and go and customer contact data along with them... This stopped that crap cold.

Have set up something similar (not Salesforce.com) for the day job here at the American Assoc of Petroleum Geologists. Sales and Marketing staff all have access to the same CRM data. Simple glance and we know the status of one another's accounts and liklihood for closing deals. At some point Salesforce gets the assoc's business. They're that good.

Hope you're settling into the new digs. Also, hope we can connect on the exec summ sent week before last. (yeah, flagrant foul... card me)

Re: Going MOBILE?

geraldb28 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:35:16 -0000

Mr. Lindzon, you've seen my plan... and you know I'm keen on following P&G tool... Watch a company called Mobiqa. The players in that space are going to factor nicely. Looking forward to following up some time soon.