Monthly Archives: January 2008

Sad to see you go, John

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

Thanks for the civility. Thanks for the authenticity. Thanks for working to end American Poverty and for making Clinton and Obama promise to follow your lead. Thanks for your fight for One America, even though you see Two. Thanks for … Continue reading →

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Stats: One Way Twitter Can be a Shark

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

Yesterday I posted a rant about Twitter and how little it’s changed in the past year. The point I was trying to make is that for something that I and many others have touted as the next big thing, there’s … Continue reading →

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Current TV Site Relaunch Worked

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

Back on October 15th, Current TV relaunched it’s website. Now it’s filing for an IPO, which made me wonder, “Was the relaunch a success?” Check out this Alexa graph. Lucky for us, when they relaunch they dropped the .tv and … Continue reading →

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Twitter, be a shark, get moving

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

My friend Kristian Hansen — New York playboy and Howard Lindzon’s right hand man — posted an article about how boring he thinks Twitter is. I think Kristian’s on to something here, but not necessarily about the every day use … Continue reading →

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Game: Who is Chris Sacca in bed with in NYC?

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

UPDATE 1: My friends over at Silicon Alley Insider and Caroline McCarthy of CNET have just reblogged this question. I’m always shocked by how few people apparently read Chris Sacca’s blog. Yeah, he never writes on it, but he was … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-01-28

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

12 Learnings From My First Turn As Startup CEO – socialmedian (tags: advice business entrepreneurship startups)

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I used to be a TV star

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

I’m just putting this out there before someone finds it when I’m famous and tries to ruin my life (my buddy Josh already threatened me with this). You may know that I earned my new media stripes as the President … Continue reading →

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Metrics to Measure your Startup Success

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

We’re in the process of putting together a series of metrics to judge BricaBox’s success over the coming (post launch) month. After reading a lot, it’s clear that each startup should go by its own standards. However, there are quite … Continue reading →

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Best Campaign Commercial of the Primaries

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

This is by far the best campaign commercial I’ve seen in the primaries. Simple, clear, and in a format we all recognize: a movie trailer! Anyway, I’ve just given to Edwards’ campaign for the third time (all three very small … Continue reading →

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Develop something cool with us

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Nate Westheimer

We’ll put a formal “help wanted” ad out in a few days, but as things start to get exciting here at BricaBox (launching in February and working on some exciting new special projects), I wanted to start getting the message … Continue reading →

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