Archive for September, 2007

When you know just enough to be dangerous

by Josh Fraser on September 27, 2007

I’ve always been amazed by the number of books that promise to teach you how to program in just a few days or weeks. I recently stumbled across a book at Amazon entitled: Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes. 10 minutes!!! Why do we think it ...

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We’re funded!

by Josh Fraser on September 23, 2007

I've been looking forward to writing this post for a long time! I'm happy to announce that we have closed our series A round of funding for EventVue. Our angelic investors include Brad Feld, David Cohen, Dave McClure, Wendy Lea and several other ...

Tags: eventvue, funding 3 Comments »

Shut up and listen when smart people are talking

by Josh Fraser on September 12, 2007

When we first got accepted into TechStars, we planned on building an event registration system. Thankfully we had some awesome mentors who encouraged us to focus solely on social networking. They pointed out that there are plenty of other companies ...

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Hi. I'm Josh.

I'm the CEO of Torbit which is a service that can automatically speed up your website. I enjoy solving interesting problems, coding, public speaking and playing outdoors. I previously founded EventVue. This is my blog where I share what I'm learning about life, entrepreneurship and software development. read more »