Trees are the spawn of Dinosaurs
11/04/2005 11:28:00 PM
Say Hello to Pupik
10/31/2005 11:40:00 PM
10/14/2005 07:47:00 PM
Uptilt & EmailLabs have been Acquired
9/10/2005 10:00:00 AM
If you go west
at right the speed,
always time will be.
6/22/2005 10:18:00 AM
at right the speed,
always time will be.
Jack Kilby - IC Inventor
"Kilby's 1958 invention of the integrated circuit changed the face of the world. Until the integrated circuit, electronics were created with large, fragile components. After Kilby's invention, electronics were able to become more complex, reliable, efficient and miniaturized. The invention made the microprocessor possible.
Kilby built the first integrated circuit using borrowed equipment during his first year at Texas Instruments. The component was built into a piece of semiconducting material smaller than a paper clip. By 1962, four years later, Texas Instruments had won its first major contract for integrated circuits for the Minuteman missile."
6/09/2005 02:31:00 PM
"Kilby's 1958 invention of the integrated circuit changed the face of the world. Until the integrated circuit, electronics were created with large, fragile components. After Kilby's invention, electronics were able to become more complex, reliable, efficient and miniaturized. The invention made the microprocessor possible.
Kilby built the first integrated circuit using borrowed equipment during his first year at Texas Instruments. The component was built into a piece of semiconducting material smaller than a paper clip. By 1962, four years later, Texas Instruments had won its first major contract for integrated circuits for the Minuteman missile."
The Story of Kirill
Today is Kirill Popov's 5 year anniversary with the company.
Today is Kirill Popov's 5 year anniversary with the company.
Kirill is an Uptilt legend and I thought with all the new people we have that his story, at least from my perspective, is one that should be know.
When I first interviewed Kirill he was begging for a job, he had called me a number of times to come in for an interview and he was looking for something to keep him out of the Army. After our interview, I thought he was obviously very smart and since he wanted a job quite badly I thought $10 and hour would get him on board.
So, at the end of the interview, I said... "Great, so we'll get you an offer letter that will pay you $10 per hour"
No sooner than the "our" in hour came out of my mouth, Kirill shot back with $14. I remember thinking what courage he had for doing that... I knew he'd take $10, he had after all taken the bus to the interview, but he shot back IMMEDIATELY with $14.
He didn't get $14 :-) But he did get $12.
For the first 6 months he worked for us, Kirill took multiple busses from SF to our Woodside Rd office. It was 3 hours each way and Kirill was in each morning by 9.
Kirill first job with us was to take the Uptilt tools (polls, message boards, calendars, opt-in forms) and put them into copies of website that we would sell them to. In those days, we didn't have leads yet, so Kirill was given a list of website that we thought would be good targets for us, he would make a copy of the website onto our demo.uptilt.com server and then implement all 8 tools into the copied version of that website. We made him do 20 of those per day.
Other items you might not know (and I'm sure I'm forgetting some myself)
Kirill developed the first version of the EmailLabs website (http://web.archive.org/web/20010411002633/http://www.emaillabs.com/)
Kirill handled customer support for a number of years
Kirill used to develop templates when sales people would sell that offering
Kirill has gone on countless sales calls as a sales engineer
Kirill has worked as a developer for us, he build a data-feed driven price comparison shopping engine for Milesource
(5k per month for us)
Kirill is still the account manager for some accounts.
Kirill has spoken at trade shows on our behalf, represented us on committees, authored papers
Kirill was our IT department from 2000-2004
People often ask me, how do you start a business, get it going and make it all work. There is no simple answer to that question, but there is one needed ingredient, you need people who SOLVE PROBLEMS. Kirill Popov is a master problem solver and we're incredibly lucky to have someone with his talent, drive and brains working with us. We wouldn't be in the position we are today without him.
Kirill Popov - Smart.... and gets things done!
And drives his second BMW at 23 :-)
A recent email thread with the PR firm
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Should CEOs blog?
Yes, CEO's are as weird, quirky and introspective as the rest of the internet population. They should be heard :-)
Is it a good idea for CEOs to blog for the whole world to read?
Absolutely, people in a position of power should always be aware that their actions are watched, read and interpreted. A blog is a just an online manifestation of that fact.
Is it more appropriate in some industries than others?
Appropriate implies usefulness. To me a blog is a journal, albeit a public one, so to the extent that a CEO wants people to read there views its appropriate.
Who should consider it and who should stay away from it?
Everyone should do it! Its therapeutic, fun and you get out of it what you put in.
What companies already have blogging CEOs and what has been the reaction? (Chris Baggot, CEO of Exact Target has one) http://exacttarget.typepad.com/chrisbaggott/
I've had one for years http://www.nubis.com . Its not work related... :-). Now am I cool?
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Seems like this media crew thinks blogs are just another PR piece. Gotta love it, thats focus! But, should a blog be all work and no play? I guess it depends, its like Google... it can be fun, it can be work, it can be fun masquerading as work. Maybe bloggers are good marketers?... ah... or maybe a blog says something about the author... and if your a CEO then it should be about the CEO. Ah... i get it now.... the questions stuck me as strange because they assume that a CEO's blog should be different because he's a CEO. Who would read a CEO's blog?
If I knew... I wouldn't have ZERO comments :-) How many blogs do you read in a given month? Me. Just 1.
4/18/2005 10:09:00 AM
4/15/2005 10:22:00 AM
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Should CEOs blog?
Yes, CEO's are as weird, quirky and introspective as the rest of the internet population. They should be heard :-)
Is it a good idea for CEOs to blog for the whole world to read?
Absolutely, people in a position of power should always be aware that their actions are watched, read and interpreted. A blog is a just an online manifestation of that fact.
Is it more appropriate in some industries than others?
Appropriate implies usefulness. To me a blog is a journal, albeit a public one, so to the extent that a CEO wants people to read there views its appropriate.
Who should consider it and who should stay away from it?
Everyone should do it! Its therapeutic, fun and you get out of it what you put in.
What companies already have blogging CEOs and what has been the reaction? (Chris Baggot, CEO of Exact Target has one) http://exacttarget.typepad.com/chrisbaggott/
I've had one for years http://www.nubis.com . Its not work related... :-). Now am I cool?
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Seems like this media crew thinks blogs are just another PR piece. Gotta love it, thats focus! But, should a blog be all work and no play? I guess it depends, its like Google... it can be fun, it can be work, it can be fun masquerading as work. Maybe bloggers are good marketers?... ah... or maybe a blog says something about the author... and if your a CEO then it should be about the CEO. Ah... i get it now.... the questions stuck me as strange because they assume that a CEO's blog should be different because he's a CEO. Who would read a CEO's blog?
If I knew... I wouldn't have ZERO comments :-) How many blogs do you read in a given month? Me. Just 1.
Life is in the adjectives.
There are objects, and then object modifiers. Object modifieres are adjectives.
For example
Object: Potato
Modifiers:
Old potato
dirty potato
tired potato
weak potato
strong potato
lumpy potato
smooth potato
fat potato
small potato
large potato
Any adjective modifies the potato.
4/04/2005 07:09:00 PM
There are objects, and then object modifiers. Object modifieres are adjectives.
For example
Object: Potato
Modifiers:
Old potato
dirty potato
tired potato
weak potato
strong potato
lumpy potato
smooth potato
fat potato
small potato
large potato
Any adjective modifies the potato.
Dad,
I was thinking after our call tonight why you would be deceptive. I thought of three reasons, please let me know if any of them is right.
1. You thought I was bragging and looking to show you up
2. You were protecting the interests of your investment
3. You were afraid to appear ignorant without having read the material thouroughtly.
All of the above?
I don't understand why you would do any of those, but I can't for the life of me figure out what other logical reason there could be.
Perplexed.
3/25/2005 02:56:00 PM
I was thinking after our call tonight why you would be deceptive. I thought of three reasons, please let me know if any of them is right.
1. You thought I was bragging and looking to show you up
2. You were protecting the interests of your investment
3. You were afraid to appear ignorant without having read the material thouroughtly.
All of the above?
I don't understand why you would do any of those, but I can't for the life of me figure out what other logical reason there could be.
Perplexed.
Clubs hit so far in Miami
Tuesday Night....
Arrived a 9:30 pm
Grabbed press passed at Crobar
Amika
then Rumi
Rumi was great...
Wednesday
Pool party at National Hotel
Roof party rained out at Townhouse
Joia for Nitevibe event
Amika was a bomb
Pawn Shop Lounge for Farina
Space was a madhouse... packed and huge when i left at 4:30am
Thursday
Nikki Beach for outdoor day party
Sunset party at Surfcomber
Nikki Beach for indoor Shelter party
Mansion for Ohm records
Slept 12 hours starting at 2am :-)
Friday
Sunset party at Surfcomber
Writing in my blog
(continued)
Wet Grooves party at the Shelborne
Nikki Beach which is always nice
Stopped in at State
then Rumi (not going off at 2am)
then somewhere else i didn't catch the name of
rejected at Mansion, so no Most Def,
but got into Crobar for a little Paul Oakenfold
then tried going to the RedBull Mansion but was barren
Saturday
What to do? So far, I've walked the beach and Ocean drive many times, shopped, eaten well, swam in the ocean, and seen lots of hotels and clubs. Relaxing on the couch at home seems good right about now, but since I can't do that I'm going to head out into the sunshine and find something to photograph. My camcorder is suffering here, the humidity causest the lense to fog up constantly, but I really should get the Delano in HD!
3/08/2005 02:41:00 PM
Tuesday Night....
Arrived a 9:30 pm
Grabbed press passed at Crobar
Amika
then Rumi
Rumi was great...
Wednesday
Pool party at National Hotel
Roof party rained out at Townhouse
Joia for Nitevibe event
Amika was a bomb
Pawn Shop Lounge for Farina
Space was a madhouse... packed and huge when i left at 4:30am
Thursday
Nikki Beach for outdoor day party
Sunset party at Surfcomber
Nikki Beach for indoor Shelter party
Mansion for Ohm records
Slept 12 hours starting at 2am :-)
Friday
Sunset party at Surfcomber
Writing in my blog
(continued)
Wet Grooves party at the Shelborne
Nikki Beach which is always nice
Stopped in at State
then Rumi (not going off at 2am)
then somewhere else i didn't catch the name of
rejected at Mansion, so no Most Def,
but got into Crobar for a little Paul Oakenfold
then tried going to the RedBull Mansion but was barren
Saturday
What to do? So far, I've walked the beach and Ocean drive many times, shopped, eaten well, swam in the ocean, and seen lots of hotels and clubs. Relaxing on the couch at home seems good right about now, but since I can't do that I'm going to head out into the sunshine and find something to photograph. My camcorder is suffering here, the humidity causest the lense to fog up constantly, but I really should get the Delano in HD!
Probably one of the greatest minds of our time is in jail because he played chess in Yugoslavia in 1992. Mediocrity rules. What a misguided world run out of control.
Link to Free Bobby website.
Link to a Bobby Fisher Anthology
2/20/2005 05:02:00 PM
Link to Free Bobby website.
Link to a Bobby Fisher Anthology
Digital - Hello Analog
Analog - Hello Digital
D - We meet again
A - There is always a point where we meet
A - Everything starts off as Analog...
D - but it ends up Digital
A - so you are the followers then?
D - We always manage to do things better
A - but never invent anything
D - our systems have proven to work
A - have they? what is a system without a beginning?
D - well, even you had a beginning. how did you begin?
A - ...
A - something helped us
D - just as you helped us
D - its starts with "ON"
What is digital verses Analog?
In analog everything is an estimation with a degree of precision
In digital it is exact
Digital measures on and off.
Analog is a spectrum
Digital is judgement
Analog is indifferece
Rather than having a "good" and a "bad" angel on your shoulder, maybe you have a digital one and an analog one?
Digital and Analog
Ying and Yang
Nature and Computers
LifeTime and Snapshot
11/16/2004 10:57:21 AM
Analog - Hello Digital
D - We meet again
A - There is always a point where we meet
A - Everything starts off as Analog...
D - but it ends up Digital
A - so you are the followers then?
D - We always manage to do things better
A - but never invent anything
D - our systems have proven to work
A - have they? what is a system without a beginning?
D - well, even you had a beginning. how did you begin?
A - ...
A - something helped us
D - just as you helped us
D - its starts with "ON"
What is digital verses Analog?
In analog everything is an estimation with a degree of precision
In digital it is exact
Digital measures on and off.
Analog is a spectrum
Digital is judgement
Analog is indifferece
Rather than having a "good" and a "bad" angel on your shoulder, maybe you have a digital one and an analog one?
Digital and Analog
Ying and Yang
Nature and Computers
LifeTime and Snapshot
We're polling our Uptilt co-workers to find out when our SKI TRIP SHOULD BE ;-)
9/26/2004 01:00:42 PM
Customer Behavior is fundamentally human behavior.
People talk about how Customers react to business, but i think a great deal can be learned about cusomter behavior by focusing on the human behavior aspects of being a customer. Customers are human.... there are all sorts of crazy's.
You should hear Bob T. hee haw! That will teach you about customers... and people too. Mostly people.
9/21/2004 11:58:26 PM
People talk about how Customers react to business, but i think a great deal can be learned about cusomter behavior by focusing on the human behavior aspects of being a customer. Customers are human.... there are all sorts of crazy's.
You should hear Bob T. hee haw! That will teach you about customers... and people too. Mostly people.
New Concept Alert - G.W.T
9/13/2004 09:59:54 PM
It always scares me when someone lies to me. When I spot, or sense, a lie I always put a "question mark" on that subject, with that person, because its means they're hiding or protecting something. Which is just cause for pause. You have to wonder why they'd lie. Now I'm rhyming.
Anyways, to continue the point, it doesn't matter to me who the person is or what they're relationship to me.... the point is that "something to hide" makes me assume some significance to the issue. Which makes me curious.
As I've gotten older and dealt with more people in more situations... alot of which came through sales/business, I've become good at seeing these little things, or having an intuition as to someone's behind the scenes thoughts.
The sad thing is that almost everyone lies, or positions, or "sells". People have a lot to hide or want things from people... and many are willing to decieve to do that. Its just a little scary.
But then when i think about it.... its because people are scared.... they are afraid of what others think and so they lie out of pride. Thats nothing to be afraid of..... as long as you know that.
The next layer is that its hard to even always be honest with yourself. I try very hard to do that, but i must acknowledge its easy to talk yourself into "what feels good". I think in the end, thats a trap, better to think long term when you feel that impulse.
The extention of the previous paragraph is that sometimes when someone is dishonest to you, its because they're dishonest with themselves. The 'ID' doesn't tell the 'EGO' what its doing. That may or may not be scary... i guess its either harmless... or REALLY SCARY ;-)
I'm obscensed with logical deduction and this honesty issue.
Do other people think like this? Maybe my analysis has gotten out of hand? Let me know.
______________________
UPDATE
It has :-)
9/05/2004 10:11:15 PM
Anyways, to continue the point, it doesn't matter to me who the person is or what they're relationship to me.... the point is that "something to hide" makes me assume some significance to the issue. Which makes me curious.
As I've gotten older and dealt with more people in more situations... alot of which came through sales/business, I've become good at seeing these little things, or having an intuition as to someone's behind the scenes thoughts.
The sad thing is that almost everyone lies, or positions, or "sells". People have a lot to hide or want things from people... and many are willing to decieve to do that. Its just a little scary.
But then when i think about it.... its because people are scared.... they are afraid of what others think and so they lie out of pride. Thats nothing to be afraid of..... as long as you know that.
The next layer is that its hard to even always be honest with yourself. I try very hard to do that, but i must acknowledge its easy to talk yourself into "what feels good". I think in the end, thats a trap, better to think long term when you feel that impulse.
The extention of the previous paragraph is that sometimes when someone is dishonest to you, its because they're dishonest with themselves. The 'ID' doesn't tell the 'EGO' what its doing. That may or may not be scary... i guess its either harmless... or REALLY SCARY ;-)
I'm obscensed with logical deduction and this honesty issue.
Do other people think like this? Maybe my analysis has gotten out of hand? Let me know.
______________________
UPDATE
It has :-)
It now been 8 days since the Confluence and I'm still in an indescribable state. I feel highly distracted... still.
Its like a computer that has too many programs running... it just takes some time to catch up.
It been a VERY busy summer.... I still haven't thought of my "Before I'm 30" Goals....
Need to do that.
9/03/2004 09:16:11 PM
Its like a computer that has too many programs running... it just takes some time to catch up.
It been a VERY busy summer.... I still haven't thought of my "Before I'm 30" Goals....
Need to do that.
Oooh ooh ..... i thought of a new phrase with duel exact opposite meanings.
Here it is....
"I could never be bothered with your attention"
Two meanings, exact opposite. Wow!
Imagine if you said that to someone, what should they think?
9/01/2004 01:31:03 PM
Here it is....
"I could never be bothered with your attention"
Two meanings, exact opposite. Wow!
Imagine if you said that to someone, what should they think?
I have these constant battles with myself. I get it in my head that I want something, and then i go after it until i get it. I guess thats good, but after a while its hard to find things you really want badly enough to get worked up over.
8/26/2004 07:31:43 PM
Its happened again. Six month after the first signs of a systemic anomaly, we've seen another!
The Confluence
7/26/2004 04:16:42 PM
The Confluence
What did Ricky Williams leave to do?
He can't be so shallow that he just left to hang out under tropical waterfalls and smoke blunts the lengths of goal posts ... could he?
7/12/2004 08:44:09 PM
He can't be so shallow that he just left to hang out under tropical waterfalls and smoke blunts the lengths of goal posts ... could he?
- A quote from ESPN the Mag
At this point I have no insights. I do, however, have a cold.
7/06/2004 11:37:51 PM
PURIFICATION
I'm on a purification fad at this point. No drinking, smoking, or bad eating for a month. I need to prove to myself that I'm still capable of self improvement.
Grumpiness has yet to set in.... but I feel it coming
I'm on a purification fad at this point. No drinking, smoking, or bad eating for a month. I need to prove to myself that I'm still capable of self improvement.
Grumpiness has yet to set in.... but I feel it coming
Peggy says I should update my blog more..... and she's right! I've neglected my blog, and I dare say, I've neglected myself.
I'm going to do better!
7/04/2004 11:11:53 PM
I'm going to do better!
The Brothers Goswami
I had dinner with the Goswami brothers last night. Just thought that sounded cool.
7/03/2004 10:14:03 AM
I had dinner with the Goswami brothers last night. Just thought that sounded cool.
Why am i so bored?
NY on July 4th weekend is turning out to be kinda a bore. I've never seen the city so empty.
But its more than that...
5/10/2004 05:41:43 PM
NY on July 4th weekend is turning out to be kinda a bore. I've never seen the city so empty.
But its more than that...
SSSS
If you take JetBlue and the person at the ticketing counter writes an SSSS on your boarding pass, then they are alerting the security station to do a full search of your bags.
I found after I didn't beep, took of my shoes, and they still ran in depth bag check. When I asked them why, they said they had to because of the SSSS.
They told me its random... I wonder.
Here is another poor sucker
4/29/2004 07:42:02 PM
If you take JetBlue and the person at the ticketing counter writes an SSSS on your boarding pass, then they are alerting the security station to do a full search of your bags.
I found after I didn't beep, took of my shoes, and they still ran in depth bag check. When I asked them why, they said they had to because of the SSSS.
They told me its random... I wonder.
Here is another poor sucker
Google is just Linux with advertising. But the fact that its Linux makes it great.
4/17/2004 05:25:04 PM
New Measure of a Man
John Kerry G.P.R rating is 8 (out of 10)
George Bush G.P.R rating is 7
Arron Russo G.P.R rating is 6
I wonder if that means Kerry will win or if Google is a Democrate!
(mine's a 4 yeah!)
John Kerry G.P.R rating is 8 (out of 10)
George Bush G.P.R rating is 7
Arron Russo G.P.R rating is 6
I wonder if that means Kerry will win or if Google is a Democrate!
(mine's a 4 yeah!)
I just noticed my blog has a Google Page Rank of 4. Thats crazy because the libratarian canidate for president only has a 6 and he told me his was going to win in 2004!
