2008

OliverSiminoff.com

I bought my about to be born son the only gift that really matters (at least to a tech entrepreneur...

Article about PhoneTag in today's issue of...

Lemonade stands are a great way for kids to begin to...

More great news on high gas prices

Image via Wikipedia The benefits of expensive oil are continuing to come out.  Ridership on...

For the first weekend in a while I have nothing to do, so I...

Ycombinator is a VC firm/Incubator with a special twist,...

Motorola Claims Executive Now With Apple Took...

Richard Wolpert's Waverunner Adventure

A new friend in LA Richard Wolpert, who is an entrepreneur and venture advisor for Accel partners,...

Email marketing is tricky.  If you have customers email and...

More bank losses?

Image via Wikipedia While everyone is focused on the Mortgage market that is currently hitting the...

Angry users

Marco, who is one of the founders of Tumblr (the platform that this Blog is on) wrote the below...

And my response...

I thought I should post my response to the email that was sent to me in my last post, I tried to...

Selling 101

I grow more tired by the day of companies contacting me that work with my competitors and touting...

““The economy may or may not be in a recession, but it...”
— Fred Wilson Read the rest of...

The Dow is at 7,700 today, seriously

Image via Wikipedia I did a post over the weekend about the Dow and where it is based on historic...

Oil Policies-Long term thinking

On CNBC right now there is a discussion about Bush’s decision to open up additional offshore...

This was a pretty funny post by Ben Stein.  However he has...

have to love the irony…

The TWIT podcat this week talked about Michael...

““The story goes on to state the the primary reason...”
— Image via...

Great insight from Chris on the US aging infrastructure...

There is an interesting article on the front page of the...

Because I post all of my information, email address and...

I would definitely buy one of these. huge: My lifelong dream...

Getting close to the IPO

My friend and possible relative (we think we are 2nd cousins) David Siminoff at Venrock calls having...

My wife and I ate breakfast at Snug Harbor in Santa Monica...

Three Statistics That Lie

July 5th- Annual Voicemail Independence...

Image via Wikipedia Well yesterday we celebrated America’s independence and today I feel that...

An idea I had on my list to do...

When gas prices started to rise about 18 months ago my dad called me up with an idea, he told me...

What Zemanta looks like when posting on Tumblr

Zemanta

I downloaded a browser plugin called Zemanta yesterday.  Zemanta is basically a blog assistant.  It...

CNG Cars

Image by Getty Images via Daylife As many of you know I bought a Prius back in February.  I have...

There was a great article today in the Wall Street Journal...

Sign Up for PhoneTag

This article was in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about...

I am on a few companies email lists (I am talking about...

Posterous, a Tumblr competitor?

I was catching up this morning on the weekend TechCrunch posts and saw this one, Posterous Beats...

Helio bought by Virgin

So it was reported today that Helio was bought by Virgin wireless.  The MVNO industry is the only...

JerichoPalooza Update 4

Well we have really had some time to think about things in regards to JerichoPalooza and we have...

In NYC tonight.  Stopped over at H&H bagel on 80th and...

American Airlines has created a total disaster with their...

This is such a clever ad campaign.  I love seeing things...

T-mobile VOIP (known as T-mobile @home)

I was helping a friend set up his PhoneTag today to all of his lines, Skype, Mobile, Office, Home,...

I was just browsing a site using Firefox 3, www.local.com,...

JerichoPalooza Update 3

Well we had hoped to launch a scaled back version of the model today.  But when we really looked at...

Nice article including PhoneTag in July’s issue of...

Received this card from Toyota in the mail today.  I am not...

Because of this leak of info over the weekend I got a lot...

JerichoPalooza Update 2

Hello all,  First of all, thank you for your kind welcomes to the Jericho community and your...

JerichoPalooza Explained

Hi, this is James Siminoff, owner and creator of Jerichopalooza.com. I feel the need to clear the...

Well I thought I was going to spend the weekend digging in...

Started last night ripping out the backyard.  Rented 2...

Great… :)

Would You Pay $715 for $630 in Cash?

Last week I was meeting with Josh Kopelman at his Philly office and we were talking about all sorts...

Big day over at PhoneTag as we are about to officially...

Firefox is trying to set a download world record today....

Yahoo is advertising for new hires on TechCrunch I thought...

I bought Predictable Irrational after reading about it on...

The airline business simply sucks.  In the history of the...

I was helping people register to...

I have hope that the below will be correct, because it is very true that right now most people are...

I hosted a cruise around Manhattan for a few entrepreneurs,...

Saw this ad on Google this morning for Facebook.  It is a...

This is a grainy photo (I took it quickly from my blackberry...

28 years later...

During Hillary’s speach this weekend I was thinking that since 1980 (when I was 4 years old)...

On my way into NYC, had a nice Redeye flight from LA.  It is...

Oil is becoming a BIG bubble, the same as the tech stocks...

Trading Places with Indian Outsourcers

This is the bad part of LA, not 1 accident but 3 accidents...

Amazon's rough Friday

It was not only the stock market having a bad day but also Amazon.  They were down for almost 2...

The Stock Market is Drunk

Yesterday according to the market recession fears were over and the market went up over 200 points,...

“But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The...”
— Dr. Randy Pausch in the “Last...

Voodoo is burning down its site

That is right not only does my friend at Voodoo cut his birthday cake with a Mac Book Air but he...

I have been really sensitive to names of companies lately. ...

Congratulations to Barack Obama

I could not believe when I saw this picture today. ...

Converting Voicemail to Text then Back...

I would not exactly say that this is how we envisioned the product being used but in the world of...

“Dear Hillary, conceding after your opponent has already won...”
— Rafeco (via deadlybrad42) (via...

They had the CEO of Michelin tires on CNBC about an hour...

Mobile Commons is a real interesting business run by 2...

Went to see Sex and the City last night with the wife and...

Spent the day at Banff and Lake Louise, if you ever have a...

Another angle of the Mac Book Air cake knife

Still in Calgary and we just celebrated our friend, Rahul...

I got this in the mail this morning. It literally made me...

Let's just set gas at $20 per gallon

The below is a GREAT post from Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch.  This is exactly why I want gas prices...

I got this email from Fly Clear, the service that gets you...

They are about the same in LA now.  I hope I am not getting...

Cleaning out an old desk and found this, the PalmVIIx with...

When I was at Macy’s this weekend buying a couch the...

This is a great post from my new friend down under, Rand...

Can this even be legal?

So when I upgraded my American Express to one of those stupid Black Cards I canceled the old card...

“McCain has apparently invited two governors and Romney to...”
— From AVC, talking about...

LinkedIn will be down for over an hour… I am glad that...

Finally got my Fly Clear card today.  The whole process from...

Comments

“The prices that we’re paying at the pump today are, I think,...”
— This is exactly what we need...

BUG + Twitter = a big idea

This is why I think that BUG is going to be such a big hit.  There are so many services out there...

This is a good start for Microsoft to gain advertisers but I...

So Comcast bought Plaxo…  I guess when Microsoft...

Netflix announces $100 set top player

Just ordered my BugLabs kit. I have been wanting to do this...

Do customers really know what they...

In listening to customer requests for new features you have to be very careful in my experience to...

I love this business model.  I hate getting mail, the idea...

We have a farmers market in town (Pacific Palisades, CA) on...

Blog fight

I am having what I would call a “Blog Fight” on Dan Graham’s blog. He wrote...

PhoneTag Fuck's Voicemail

| View | Upload your ownWe have been having a lot of fun with our Fuck Voicemail T-shirts. 

WTF??  I was in Japan yesterday and was surprised to walk...

Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video...

Vayama continues to impress me as the best travel site ever...

Successful Launch of Grand Central...

While I am bouncing around Asia this week we had a really successful launch of our PhoneTag Grand...

Arrived Sydney at 8am, 12 hours later I was back on a plane...

I left for Sydney Australia on Sunday night from LA. I...

Just went to the UCLA household chemical recycling...

Free Idea for Microsoft

I had lunch with one of the best VC’s in the valley today.  At that lunch we were speaking...

Cheap vs. Stupid

At PhoneTag and any other business I am involved in I am always very attentive to the money out.  I...

Some old Airforce bomber just flew over my house.  It was...

I presented PhoneTag at the Plug and Play expo in Sunnyvale...

When I was taking off at LAX yesterday I saw this… I...

Had a great entrepreneurial fuelled breakfast this morning...

“It is entirely possible that before Twitter makes its first...”
— This is a really interesting...

Yahoo and MSFT not going to happen, I hope...

47 dead Americans in Iraq last month....

We should never use the number of how many “Americans” died in Iraq.  We should only use...

More thinking about Obama and his...

Obama may have lacked some judgment in associating with Wright but that is nothing compared to the...

Airlines Advertising

I do not understand why Airlines Advertise. 99% of people don’t care what airline they fly as...