This past Sunday me and my boy Nick went to see Counting Crows for the umteenth time. (Ben and I actually saw them this past March at Pulver’s VON conference. In fact the same people standing next to me there, where standing in front of me here. Bizarre). Anyway, during the opening act (cool band [...]
Entries from June 2006
June 27, 2006
Stowe doesn’t wear a beret!
It was cool meeting Stowe Boyd a couple weeks ago. I had been meaning to mention it, but was buried in my playbox for a few weeks. The purpose of our meeting was to introduce Stowe to what we’re up to, and get his feedback. This cat is very cerebral, and has lots of product [...]
June 27, 2006
Chris groked it quickly
I had the pleasure of sitting down today with Chris Shipley from Guidewire Group who probably sees as many startups as a VC does. She spends her time mapping trends to the marketplace and displaying those insights in a variety of ways, not the least of which is the very well known DEMO show. I [...]
June 23, 2006
the communications liberation
We had a meeting today where we verbalized what we’ve already realized. We aren’t about anonymous phone services so much as liberating people’s phone behavior. As characterized by Tim in a meeting today anonymous calling gives us the mental picture of an old white van with shades in the windows. That’s not us at all. [...]
June 15, 2006
SMS is the next inflection point in text communication
Ben and I have been talking lately about SMS being the next inflection point in the evolution of text messaging. For time sake, I’ll spare handwritten letters, faxes and telex, and go straight to modern times with e-mail and then IM. In each of these inflections, consumers basically did the same thing from a behavioral [...]
June 9, 2006
we got the beat
It’s been fun to watch what was an early rendition of our story expand from what was one blog by Mike Bazeley. It was more surprising to see it picked up by Gadgets Blog on CNET, mostly because we haven’t even talked with them yet. There was one clarification I thought I’d make to [...]
June 6, 2006
The paper lives on
I went to the store to get some bagles for the family this past Sunday. I kind of felt everyone was looking at me for some reason. On my way out of the place I saw a huge picture of Ben and I on the cover of the Business & Technology section of the Contra [...]
June 6, 2006
The paper
I went to the store to get some bagles for the family this past Sunday. I kind of felt everyone was looking at me for some reason. On my way out of the place I saw a huge picture of Ben and I on the cover of the Business & Technology section of the Contra [...]
June 1, 2006
Anonymity: 1-way or 2-way?
There seems to be growing noise (and thus confusion) around what constitutes an anonymous calling solution. Most of the noise is based around the 1-way anonymizers (meaning only that my privacy is protected when people call me on that number, but not when I call them). These are the many companies that offer consumers a [...]
