August 2008
15 posts
Gallup Site is Awesome!
Gallup, the highly reputable polling institution, has an awesome website. They’re focused on interpreting raw polling data for insights around national headlines. They provide clean analysis without the exaggeration that comes with most other news sites. My favorite sections:
The overview landing page
The youtube channel
The Election 2008 section and headlines in RSS
The Video...
Current Firefox Tabs
Discovering some nice startups & great people here in San Francisco
The mint.com folks are working on adding investment tracking to their budgeting and financial aggregation offering.
Asking questions and searching for answers in twitter-like, and equally silly-named fluther.
Checking out a couple awesome designers: metalabdesign & dustincurtis
Using SMS as business cards from...
Go Tigers!
Two students from my high school discovered large-scale mislabeling of fish sold in New York City using DNA testing.
Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated this year from the Trinity School in Manhattan, took on a freelance science project in which they checked 60 samples of seafood using a simplified genetic fingerprinting technique to see whether the fish New Yorkers buy is what they...
YCombinator
I just got back from YCombinator’s first demo day here in San Francisco. Perhaps this is perfectly obvious to everyone else, but I think entrepreneurial ideas fall into a few general categories. The higher-listed items are generally easier to find opportunities:
Friction: Rendering easy an existing task that is harder than it could be. (anyvite)
Tools: Filling an identifiable void in...
Next for me!
Effective tomorrow, I’ve resigned my position of four-plus years at Clinton Group. The team at Clinton has afforded me the confidence to seek out new and exciting projects. At this moment, I feel a total freedom to play in new areas, return to old hobbies, and explore the world around me. I may even find endeavors riskier than statarb at a mature hedge fund! In the immediate future, I...
