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Elance & Mechanical Turk
The folks at Elance were interested in hearing how we used their service. I found Elance helpful for my company because we could hire subject matter experts on specific projects instead of hiring generalists on a longer term basis. With Elance you get to pull from a global audience of contract workers. For smaller, more [...]
Continue reading...Delaware Division of Corporations: Very Good
25. August 2008
My company, TownConnect, is incorporated in Delaware and I recently had some interaction with their Division of Corporations. My experiences with state and local governments has been limited to dealing with the Registry of Motor Vehicles and paying lots of parking tickets. It used to be these agencies were designed to suck the life out [...]
Continue reading...Castaway: A Startup Movie
27. April 2007
Starting a company and developing a new product is like Tom Hanks in Castaway. In the early stages you are locked away in a cave. In solitude talking to yourself. No one knows who you are, where you are or what you are doing. People with corporate jobs look at you a little differently — [...]
Continue reading...The Kremen Patent
7. February 2007
In 2003, Gary Kremen, Mike Zapolin and I acquired the assets of Electric Classifieds, Inc. (Gary’s old company) for “several thousand” dollars and legal costs. Electric Classifieds had sold their technology to Match.com, where Gary was a founder, but eventually went defunct after a few years circa 1997. The buried treasure? U.S. Patent 5,706,434. See [...]
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22. June 2009
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