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founder institute bay area + founder showcase

By cheez80 | Published: January 25, 2010
awesome. that’s how i’d describe two weeks ago — both the fi session on wednesday and the showcase the night after. we got back from fi daygo at 3am wednesday morning. i ended up doing laundry until 5am. we left town at 10, ran some errands, then really hit the road around 11:30. it was a [...]
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ack! new year!

By cheez80 | Published: January 9, 2010
i have an investor session pitch (thanks @founderinstitute) on tuesday — hopefully i don’t cock it up. i think the pitch format is 1 minute long, without the use of visual aids (powerpoint/keynote), so i’m going to be working on Receet’s 1 minute “elevator” pitch this weekend. there’s been some consternation in the program about [...]
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WHATT?

By cheez80 | Published: December 16, 2009
RockYou Hack: From Bad To Worse – TechCrunch It’s absolutely mind-boggling to me that in this day and age, companies are still storing passwords in plain text. It’s also mind-boggling to me that RockYou’s database was pwnt by SQL injection — that’s a basic thing every web developer worth their salt should be protecting against. I [...]
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session 5!

By cheez80 | Published: December 10, 2009
tuesday was session 5 of FI’s san diego session. we had jon carder again, chris capdevila (with oracle, but he used to be a startup founder) and steve iverson, who’s building a green, energy efficient amazon s3-like service (at least, that’s what i got from flipping through his company’s website). we hit epic traffic on [...]
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