Disqus - Friends of Sameer

Re: Another VC Blogger – Kim Davis King

fredwilson — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:04:12 -0000

yeah, but blogging the fundraising process is a no-no. frontrunning, hyping issues galore.

Re: Caddyshack

fredwilson — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:54:10 -0000

That movie is one of the best ever. It's up there with the Marx Brothers as far as I am concerned. Josh watched it last year (without us knowing it) and has been begging me to see it again.

Re: Boston Marathon – Major Emotional Bummer

fredwilson — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:13:53 -0000

you have to have thick skin to blog

emails and comments like that are tough to take

but posting the email and your response is very cathartic and its worked well for me too over the years

good luck tomorrow

Re: Musee Rodin

fredwilson — Thu, 25 May 2006 07:41:26 -0000

musee rodin is joanne's all time favorite museum

Re: Silicon Valley? Why Not Second Life?

fredwilson — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:22:40 -0000

funny

i was just suggesting the creation of "venture life" yesterday to several VC friends of mine

Re: Lack of Critical Thinking

fredwilson — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:11:20 -0000

it's time to add some new feeds to your feed reader.

we all spend too much time reading about the tech/startup/vc world and there's way too much groupthink in that space driven by the twin tech's (techmeme and techcrunch).

check out gary becker and richard posner who give the blog world serious critical thinking every week

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/

Re: VCs and Non-Disclosure Agreements

fredwilson — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:51:40 -0000

one way to think about this is the age old adage that contracts can never protect you as well as good judgement. if you share your plan with an unethical person who does sign an NDA, you'll be at greater risk than an ethical person who won't sign an NDA.

Re: Why I Love My Board

fredwilson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:40:18 -0000

now that i&#039ve had the benefit of one competition under my belt, i am ready to take on any and all comers in blackberry typing.

i just had jitters on that one.

Re: Why I Love My Board

fredwilson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:40:18 -0000

now that i&#039ve had the benefit of one competition under my belt, i am ready to take on any and all comers in blackberry typing.

i just had jitters on that one.

Re: Why I Love My Board

fredwilson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:40:18 -0000

now that i've had the benefit of one competition under my belt, i am ready to take on any and all comers in blackberry typing.

i just had jitters on that one.

Re: Feed-based Architecture? Um.

fredwilson — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:02:20 -0000

Hooman,

I think you are reading too much into my post last night and too little into my previous one.

Sure I'd like to see FeedBurner extend their value proposition into widgets and I think they will. But I don't think that people should simply "give up" if they do.

I do think that RSS and the other feed oriented architectures provide the best publishing system for widgets. I am simply saying that I want a 'write once, publish everywhere" solution and I think widgets that are powered by feeds will do that best.

Fred

Re: Feed-based Architecture? Um.

fredwilson — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:02:20 -0000

Hooman,

I think you are reading too much into my post last night and too little into my previous one.

Sure I'd like to see FeedBurner extend their value proposition into widgets and I think they will. But I don't think that people should simply "give up" if they do.

Fred

Re: People Ready

fredwilson — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:22:30 -0000

i think it's much ado about nothing. slow news on friday evenings makes for these kind of things.

here's my take

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/06/why-is-nick-den.html

Fred

Re: The Brussels Affair

fredwilson — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:56:54 -0000

testing out the new comment system

Re: Trying Out A New Comment System

fredwilson — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:49:50 -0000

52 comments in the past 7 hours! I guess the way to get a lot of comments is to try a new comments system.

Re: Release Early and Often

fredwilson — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:58:46 -0000

funny coincidence

a YC startup called Disqus asked me if they could use my bog to demo their new comment system at tomorrow's YC day in Boston which I'll be attending.

I said yes and put it on my blog last night.

had no idea that there was an almost identical company coming out of Techstars.

Just shows once again that different people come to the same ideas in different places at the same time.

fred

Re: Selling Too Soon

fredwilson — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:04:35 -0000

there's nothing to forgive scott.

i mean that.

fred

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:28:58 -0000

yes, i did that. after i tried about a dozen other id/pw combos. thanks for the suggestion though. i'll take any and all of them.

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:37:16 -0000

maybe the problem is my install disk is an older version of osx than is now running

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:45:55 -0000

been racking my brain for that. it's a machine we don't use much except the summer months so my mind is hazy

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:46:36 -0000

rich, i updated the post with a picture of the reset password screen i am seeing. strangely, it doesn't show a sys admin (root) user either.

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:48:34 -0000

interesting idea. how do i mount it on another machine? connect my macbook to the mac mini with a firewire cable? i guess i should go out and get one

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:57:38 -0000

tried that but i don't think that's it. i set it up for joanne.

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:59:43 -0000

benedict

this is really helpful and i think you are on to the issues i am facing.

thanks

fred

Re: OSX Help Please

fredwilson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:07:16 -0000

i heard this from a number of sources and i did it. but it didn't work.