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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 sound of

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 in

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 great

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