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fitbit is tricky to make me care about the flower.
Me: did i tell you about the goodie bags we got yesterday
Me: from TEC
Me: we got tote bags filled with cool stuff
Me: my favorite is this gadget from one of their other portfolio companies, called fitbit
Me: it's a tiny clip
Me: that you clip to a belt loop or put in your pocket
Me: and it tracks how active you are throughout the day
Me: haha
Me: and it uploads it wireless to a website
Me: i laugh because
Me: i looked at my record from today (i started wearing it today)
Me: and unsurprisingly i am very sedentary :-/
Me: it has this silly feature
Me: where like, if you press a button on it it shows you a flower
Me: that has more or fewer leaves based on your activity
Me: so like
Me: i think it starts with 4 or 5 leaves default
Me: but by the end of the day my poor flower only had 2 leaves
Me: so then i danced around the kitchen a little
Me: and it went up to 3 leaves!
Me: haha
hanyin cheng: see i don know if this is actually gonna make me become healthier
Me: i dunno
Me: i mean
Me: i did dance around the kitchen to give my flower another leaf
Me: they're tricky to make me care about the flower.
Chuck Klosterman's "23 Questions I Ask Everybody I...
The following 23 questions are really entertaining to do with friends. :)
peterwknox:
jennifur85:
loveinatrashcan:
1. Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks—he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card, and two others in a similar vein. These are his only tricks and he...
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Blog post #4, on 1) picking the right VCs to fund your startup, and 2) what’s the right way to network?
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Blog post #3 for True Ventures’s TEC program, on the value of an MBA for an entrepreneur.
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Blog post #1 that I wrote for True Ventures’ TEC program (which I’m part of this summer). The program places you in one of the early-stage startups in True’s portfolio.
WatchIt was inevitable. iPhone 4 parody vid!