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Facebook Developer Garage

Published by Ryan Junee August 28th, 2007 in Thoughts. 2 Comments

A lot of people are talking about the Facebook Platform lately, so this past weekend I decided to check out the Facebook Developer Garage, held at Facebook’s Palo Alto HQ, to find out what all the fuss is about.

The event packed a lot of geeks into a small room, and was fun and informative. […]

Back Where I Belong

Published by Ryan Junee July 28th, 2007 in Thoughts. 0 Comments

In the sky that is :) After a long hiatus I finally took flight again today. The last time I flew was back in January - and that was in Sydney. The last time I flew out of Palo Alto was almost a year ago!
When I arrived at the airport at about 3pm […]

The Myth that High Valuations are Bad

Published by Ryan Junee July 11th, 2007 in Thoughts. 1 Comment

There have been some VCs blogging lately about the dangers of taking an investment at too high a valuation. Despite the fact that VCs have an intrinsic interest in lower valuations (it gives them a larger share of your company thus a chance at making more money), these particular VCs argue that too high […]

Reptation Systems and Road Rage

Published by Ryan Junee May 20th, 2007 in Thoughts. 1 Comment

A while ago I was toying with the idea of how we could use technology to do something about all the a**hole drivers on the road (hey, I live in California :)
I really like the idea of online reputation systems, as they provide a means for a community of peers to self-regulate (e.g. think of […]

Web 2.0 expo

Published by Ryan Junee April 17th, 2007 in Thoughts. 0 Comments

There’s lots of stuff going on in San Francisco this week due to the web 2.0 expo. I checked it out on Monday and I was actually a little shocked at how small it was (even though a lot of other people seem to be saying they are impressed with how big it was […]

Seth Sternberg of Meebo

Published by Ryan Junee April 8th, 2007 in Thoughts. 3 Comments

People generally seem to like when I post write-ups about events I have attended, so I thought I’d do another one. Today I attended the “I don’t know to CEO” conference at Stanford. Overall it was a good event with a variety of speakers. I decided I’ll just focus on one speaker here - Seth […]

Startup School

Published by Ryan Junee March 25th, 2007 in Thoughts. 2 Comments

Today I attended ’startup school’ which was held at Stanford - basically a Y Combinator event that is co-sponsored by BASES. I was surprised at the huge turn out - I would estimate around 500 people, and judging from those I talked to a lot had flown in from out of state for the […]

Screening Startup Opportunities

Published by Ryan Junee March 14th, 2007 in Thoughts. 1 Comment

There is a lot of conventional wisdom out there concerning the characteristics and indicators of success for potential startup opportunities. I decided to see if I could quantify this wisdom, and come up with a method for ’scoring’ a startup opportunity. The score in itself probably doesn’t mean much, but by using a […]

Decision Making for Start-Ups

Published by Ryan Junee March 1st, 2007 in Experiences. 0 Comments

Another event report - this time I went to a talk on ‘Startup Decision Making‘ by Konstantin Guericke (LinkedIn founder and now Jaxtr CEO).

The event was hosted by BASES - if you want to hear about other events like this, sign up for the BASES digest (and also check the event listing […]

The Singularity

Published by Ryan Junee February 28th, 2007 in Random. 0 Comments

If you want to stretch your brain a little and contemplate the possible future of mankind, given the advances in technology towards ‘intelligent machines’, then you might enjoy reading this paper that was published in the Winter 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review.
Will we see the ‘end of the human era’ by 2030? What […]