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From VC to IT: Blissfully's Origin Story

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From VC to IT: Blissfully's Origin Story

Alone in the dark I’m in a coffin-sized closet, alone in the corner of a dusty basement, sweating and staring at a blinking BIOS terminal. I'm being asked to pick a number between 1 and 4, and I can no longer hear the deafening server-fans over the

Wealth, Health, Work, and Weight

Wealth, Health, Work, and Weight

(originally published on Medium [https://medium.com/@aaronwhite/wealth-health-work-and-weight-522f97698892]) At the beginning of 2010, I bought a Withings Scale [http://amzn.to/1OSQF6X], which turned out to be pretty awesome, because now I have half-a-decade’s worth of weight and body-fat data to examine. I spent the majority of this

Four Stories about Storytelling

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Four Stories about Storytelling

(originally posted on Medium) [https://medium.com/@aaronwhite/four-stories-about-storytelling-830225ecf55e] Or the story about Helen Keller, the Kudzu, Babe Ruth, David Copperfield, & Your Startup. The Power of Stories As a child I believed logical arguments were enough to convince anyone of anything. You just needed enough time to explain them

Our Web is Fertile

The web went “Social” last year, and in a big way. This means that the next round of influencers won’t be technologists, but instead social organizers. With the new social fabric & norms now in place, we can amplify any social behavior to involve millions. Know someone who is

Insecurity key ingredient for success?

I’ve often wondered if this is the case. I think early Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, etc, are good examples of people have harnessed insecurity to fuel their business obsession. You need to have a burning desire to prove something to get you through rough spots and keep you going.

Big & Simple Ideas

There are two types of Internet startups…. 1. Those that invent new technology. 2. Those that invent new cultures. Google is an awesome example of #1. Tumblr is a fantastic example of #2. Tumblr does very little that is ‘new’, and everything it does was already possible (and presumably still