Sam Lessin, founder of media startup Drop.io, is shutting down his blog and has started a subscription email newsletter, much like the one Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis started in 2008. Lessin has also started a service called Letter.ly to allow others to follow his example. Read More »
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The Open Angel Forum, a free, meetup-style event hosted by technology industry raconteur Jason Calacanis through which five startups are subsequently matched up with angel investors, is coming to San Francisco on March 4th. Read More »
Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis has called for a public boycott of comScore because of a controversial change in the way it measures web traffic, and has pulled Union Square VC Fred Wilson into the fight as well. Read More »
Last month we offered bootstrapping founders a short index of cost-optimization sites to help cut expenses for things like health insurance, web hosting, wireless plans and electric bills. Many of you wrote in to offer your own recommendations, so this week we’re expanding the… Read More »
By now you’ve all read some of the controversy over Jason Calacanis’ blog post on cost-savings for startups, in which he urged founders to “fire people who are not workaholics.” We posted Monday (‘Mahalo ‘for Tips on How to Save $$), before the firestorm… Read More »
Founders can never get enough advice on how to save money. Last week Weblogs founder Jason Calacanis wrote a handy post about how he’s done this over at Mahalo, where he is currently CEO. Jason took some TechCrunch flak for one… Read More »