April 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
Alright, I am probably going to get an Ipad
It’s a little embarrassing to say this while living in San Francisco but I’ve never been a big fan of Apple. It’s the smugness in some of my friends in the way the way the talk about Apple and their products that always annoyed me. And while I appreciate Apple’s design aesthetic I never found it worth paying significantly more for. More than anything I’ve always...
February 2010
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
The Walkmen (1)
Death Cab for Cutie (1)
Interpol (1)
Band of Horses (1)
Frightened Rabbit (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The panic and pleasure of that first paycheck
Last Friday I received my first ever paycheck from Klout. After almost 18 months living out of my savings as we bootstrapped this company it was an exciting day. We have investors now, a real office and employees. We are officially a “real” company. After watching my bank account dwindle down to near zero it couldn’t have come soon enough.
While it’s awesome to see my...
Board Meeting 101 Slideshow (click to link) →
hiten:
dcancel:
evanschumacher:
Board Meeting 101 Slideshow (click above to link to it)
No list of “do’s and don’ts” rather a board meeting template that i more or less use. i get asked a lot by folks for tips on how to put together a board deck so i figured i’d share one
Why should you care?
- experience - 10 years of startups x 10 board meetings per year = 100 board meetings with 8 or...
January 2010
1 post
davehyndman:
Social Distortion - Under My Thumb...
December 2009
3 posts
2009 The Year in Sleeping
Places I slept at least one night in 2009:
New York City
Singapore
Bangkok
Ho Chi Minh
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Austin
Seattle
San Jose
San Francisco
Pismo Beach
The list doesn’t look that crazy except for the fact that I actually lived in and rented apartments in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco all in the same year. I also spent almost 6 weeks in Singapore.
October 2009
2 posts
Twitter Lists - A spammers new best friend?
So I am one of the lucky guys who ended up with early access to the Twitter Lists functionality and so far I am loving it. Not necessarily from a functionality standpoint (it’s really bare bones but at Klout we are building some cool stuff to make it more useful) but from a data perspective. Everyone has always been obsessed with follower count (huge mistake in my opinion) but now the...
Are Twitter list going to encourage people to have...
For the last couple weeks I’ve been part of a lucky group of testers with access to Twitter’s new list functionality. In case you some how missed it, Twitter lists are going to allow any user to curate a list that any other user can then follow. The key here though is that when you follow a list you are not necessarily following each of the people on that list. The list themselves...
September 2009
6 posts
“If you have data — flaunt it! Releasing some interesting piece of data, ideally...”
– Flaunting 101 by Getty Images via Daylife
Flaunt Your Data (PR 2.0) - Continuations
Rafer sez: This goes double for analytics companies, for whom the process is more repeatable. All graphs and charts in your reports should offer embed code so that your users can easily blog their _live or...
newspeedwayboogie:
Soulsavers - You Will Miss Me...
“If you knew which of your followers had clout, you could invest more time and...”
– Seth’s Blog: Clout (via hiten)
Rafer sez: Hence Klout.
(via rafer)
It was a mixture of excitement and confusion this morning as I worked through my feed reader and stumbled on Seth’s post. How come he was talking about us and why did he spell our name wrong? Then I realized he...
August 2009
6 posts
I like moving
Think I just found an apartment in San Francisco today. I am getting close to being able to check all the most famous US cities off the list.
Las Vegas
Miami
Los Angeles
NYC
San Francisco
At some point I need to live in Chicago and Boston and I will pretty much have things covered.
July 2009
11 posts
“After being robbed at gunpoint at a southwest Atlanta gas station, Forrest...”
– Three boxers died in the last 30 days. I thought Gatti’s wife strangling him was the craziest until I read this.
Pro boxer Vernon Forrest fatally shot in Atlanta | ajc.com
Sad day for boxing. Can’t believe Arturo Gatti is dead.
just landed at lax. Exhausted
Michael Jackson funeral procession passed us on the freeway. Could see the coffin in the hearst (and several hundred cops)
rt @howardlindzon loving Klout.net @klout a very cool waste of time while watching Tiger.
RT @klout Klout helps power the Twitter Approval Matrix! Check it out - http://bit.ly/rh7eD
on my way to the belly of the beast - Twitter HQ
June 2009
25 posts
Starting to seriously consider moving to SF. Will be looking at apartments there next weekend. What neighborhoods do I need to see?
Perhaps the Pastrami burrito was an invention that was better left to the imagination.
I just ate a Chinese dumpling the size of a nerf football.
Feel like I’ve learned more in the last month than I had in the past 3 years combined. Not sure if that’s good or bad.
‘90 UNLV, ‘97 Marlins, Lakers 3peat, 07 NY Giants, 08 Lakers - some how I bring championships to wherever I live.
RT @adamplease: disappointed in people using twitter for gov subversion. guys, don’t forget about interacting with brands!!
San Francisco, I think I could love you if it wasn’t always so damn cold outside.
too many big things going on in Sf so I am back on a plane heading back there.
“Dingle said that employees from a neighboring Catholic Charities of Southern...”
– Cancer, not ball, killed zoo lion Midas - News - ReviewJournal.com
Something so strange about this.
Seems that only people that knew me when I was like 12 years old friend me on FB so I’ll make it easy: http://www.facebook.com/joeyfernandez
Guy in front of me going through airport security had every liquid except a gallon of milk.
RT @Joshmedia: of startups claiming to have solved the “influencer” challenge. Klout is my fav w/ their contextual influencer approach
Sand Hill Road today takeover today.