by Will Marlow | Dec 26, 2009 | Original Blog
I was just reading the 2005 by Ryan McIntyre about the plummeting cost of doing a startup, and thought I’d share the comparison of prices for hosting services in 1995 versus 2005. Bandwidth: $1100/megabit/month in 1995 vs. $128/megabit/month in 2005 Cage Space:...
by Will Marlow | Dec 25, 2009 | Original Blog
This year I gave two types of Christmas presents (with the exception of my gift to Amy, which was a Nikon DSLR): (a) photographs, and (b) AlumniFidelity t-shirts. The older I get, the more I appreciate gifts that are homemade. I hope you can enjoy the holidays with...
by Will Marlow | Dec 24, 2009 | Original Blog
This is a follow up to a recent post I wrote on . Yesterday I noticed that Google provides “Alert Templates” which make it easy to keep track of changing trends in your web traffic. I took Google’s suggestions (with a few minor edits),...
by Will Marlow | Dec 23, 2009 | Original Blog
An MIT meteorologist did an experiment with mathematical formulas that showed that the pressure of a butterfly’s wings beating in Brazil can cause a Tornado in Texas. If we lived in a more optimistic world, would the meteorologist have demonstrated...
by Will Marlow | Dec 22, 2009 | Original Blog
The rarest and most valuable people in a startup company are the ones who not only understand their role, but can perform that role, even when things that should happen first, don’t happen first. If you can’t find these people, you can still be one...
by Will Marlow | Dec 21, 2009 | Original Blog
There is a Facebook application that is surprisingly difficult to find called the "Friend Tracker." Once you set it up, it will tell you how many friends you have added, and how many friends have "unfriended" you, in the days since you last...
