Posts tagged ‘random’

Integrity

by Josh Fraser on June 16, 2010


I remember a couple weeks after I graduated college going to the movies with some friends.  The girl behind the counter asked "student?"  We all said "yes".  Of course, none of us were technically students anymore, but the girl behind the counter ...

No risk, no reward

by Josh Fraser on January 5, 2010


If you don't miss a flight every now and then, you're wasting too much time hanging around in airports. If you're a mountain biker without any scars, maybe it's time to earn some. If you haven't wiped out in a while, maybe it's time to push the ...

My wish list for Facebook

by Josh Fraser on August 29, 2009


I'm a big fan of Facebook.  It's one of the few services I use every day and I find it to be invaluable for keeping up with people. One of the results of using any service a lot, is that it makes it really easy to point out the flaws and features that ...

Verifying domain name ownership

by Josh Fraser on May 14, 2009


I got a nice shout-out on TechCrunch today for discovering an issue with the new Kindle Publisher program.  The vulnerability allowed anyone to claim a blog as their own and take advantage of the 30% rev-share that Amazon offers on their $1.99 subscription ...

Learning from wipe-outs

by Josh Fraser on January 22, 2008


Over the weekend I had the privilege of hanging out with twelve of my best friends from Clemson. They flew in for MLK weekend, and we spent our time skiing and boarding up in the mountains at Breckenridge. If you spend any time on the slopes there ...

A roommate’s perspective

by Josh Fraser on November 4, 2007


This is a guest blog from my roommate, Mike Soltys. Mike and I graduated from Clemson together and now he's working on his PHD at CU. Here are Mike's thoughts on start-up life: Hey Tech-blog world! My name is Mike and I'm a guest blogger for Josh. ...

A picture of life at TechStars

by Josh Fraser on July 25, 2007


It's 10:45 on a Wednesday night and the TechStars office is hopping! There are 13 guys working here at the office right now. That's start-up life for you!

The big push.

by Josh Fraser on July 5, 2007


This week has been crazy, exciting and a lot of fun! Recently David has been pushing us to get our products out for people to start using them. We took his challenge to heart and had an early alpha launch with our first online community for a conference ...

A quick break from coding…

by Josh Fraser on June 25, 2007


Notice anything funny about this picture? I think there's a life lesson here: think ahead! Ok, my blog break is over. Time to get back to coding. And by "coding", I mean, fighting stupid IE css bugs. If you haven't signed up for our mailing ...

Content aggregation: Am I missing something?

by Josh Fraser on June 18, 2007


With new web services appearing every day our information is increasingly spread out over a myriad of different platforms. As a result, active web users are forced to log into dozens of different sites to keep up with their online life. There are ...