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webmission08

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

In March last year I visited London and to start a conversation about ‘UK vs US’ entrepreneurialism, and in a small way I helped pushed along this idea of a trade mission.
Ideas are easy, execution is hard. Congratulations to the team that put this together:
Oli Barrett, Julia French, and Jim and Bron.

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Worse things happen at zee.

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Redefining search… with a red animated zebra?
http://www.redzee.com
The result of applying the ‘Cindy Crawford’ test has her homepage at position 11 in the results. Not so good.

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Cuill Funding

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Cuill announced its funding today - $25 million from Madrone and $8 million from Tugboat and Greylock.

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