September 2011
andrewgreene asked: If you could take a bike ride anywhere in the world, where would you go?
August 2011
texturism asked: let's assume that you're a talented musician hoping for a big break. given that, if you could sing or play one song with one band - what would that night look like? the song (could be a cover), the band, the venue. but what i really want to know: what would you wear? thanks!
gbattle asked: Morning Bijan. If you had $50K in 2011 US dollars to invest in a single entrepreneur at any point in human history, what would you invest in and why?
kirklove asked: How old is you dog? And how did he adjust to kids?
david-noel asked: What has been your biggest challenge so far this year and how did you approach it / learned from it?
documentedthoughtsandsuchofagirl asked: hi:)your picture of your family is beautiful:)how is life treating ya?
newspeedwayboogie asked: What is your favorite Clash song, and why?
Ask me anything
ask me anything
The upside of rejection strikes again
Just got off the phone with a friend of mine.
He’s a very talented person that recently lost his job.
I was determined to help him find him a new gig that he would find inspiring and fullfilling.
Today we had a call set up to catch up on where he was at. I had a few ideas for him.
He told me he just accepted a position. When he told me about the job and company, I just smiled. This...
♪ Frightened Rabbit – Confetti
one awesome band...
Arctic Monkeys - That Where You Are Wrong
turn it...
Thoughts about signal to noise
As we all know, the east coast is dealing with Hurricane Irene.
And as result, there are a lot of posts on various social networks about the storm (photos, videos, commentary, news, etc).
It’s dominating various streams I hang out in.
I’m sure I’m missing some stuff but the great stuff is being retweeted or fav’d and I’m getting it that way.
This brings up the...
♪ Beirut - Goshen
from the upcoming new album,...
Metric - The End Has No End
great cover of a...
A month later in an all Google world
About a month ago or so we ditched our Microsoft Exchange server and moved everyone at our firm to Google.
I had moved to Google about a year before everyone else but it was a hack. I basically forwarded all my Spark Capital mail to google. It was messy. I had a screwed up address book. And I had mail in gmail and contacts and calendar on the Exchange server. Like I said - it was a hack.
Now we...
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the clash - somebody got murdered
“Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.”
– John Gruber
“Last night we passed our goal of raising $50,000 for teacher’s projects...”
– A VC
So awesome fred.
White Stripes - You Don’t Know What Love Is
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Anonymous asked: when are you going to respond to my questions about comments? a blog without comments isn't a blog -- its a soapbox. what happened to the emphasis on "conversation"? steve
One song can change the world
I recently finished “The Life”, an autobiography by Keith Richards. Now I’m in the middle of Philips Norman’s biography of John Lennon.
Amazing that both artists were blown away by the same song - Heartbreak Hotel.
John Lennon:
“Heartbreak Hotel’ sounded a corny title, and his name seemed strange in those days. But then when I heard it, it was the end for me…I...
♪ Neil Young - Out On The Weekend
Live...
Write once, share anywhere
Over the past week or so, I’ve switched text editors on the iPad.
I’m now using Elements (instead of iA Writer).
Elements does a number of things in addition to keeping things simple and clean.
It connects to Dropbox so all the documents I create with Elements are automatically saved to the cloud. It supports Markdown which the inner geek in me appreciates.
And best of all -...
♪ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
...
“audacity beats predictability over the long haul”
– Clay Shirky - http://bit.ly/qQBRr4
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“Oh man. They are sooo lazy.”
– My son James,age 5, muttering under his breath after taking too many orders from his older sisters
fred-wilson:
There Is A Light That Never Goes...
Foursquare introduces Events →
So damn awesome
♪ Listening to Miss K. by Deer Tick...
♪ Listening to How Come You Never Go There by...
Taxing the rich
Like many of you, I’ve read Warren Buffets NYT op-ed.
I’ve also read Arringtons, Screw the Rich post. http://t.co/Ku49HHR
To be clear I am not a macro economics expert. I loved the class in undergrad but that was a few years ago :)
I have a very simple way of looking at this
1. I would like to see the country do more with less waste. Everyone does. When I hear people say we...
“She weird but funny. Like you daddy.”
– My daughter Ellie, age 9.
What record labels can learn from the NYT's porous...
A few years ago I wrote a post about what music labels could learn from the app store model (http://bijansabet.com/post/272385429/).
Unfortunately it’s as hard as ever for startup to get licensed. Thats not good for anyone.
We need a way for artists to get paid and for consumers to get smooth and easy access
Last week I had lunch with my friend Anthony (twitter.com/fascinated) who...
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♪ Listening to Belle & Sebastian – “Space...
♪ Listening to Arctic Monkeys – Reckless Serenade...