Monthly Archives: July 2007

Béa is back from BlogHer '07

Bea is back from BlogHer in Chicago where she spoke about food photography.  In related news, dinner tonight was  lovely.

StyleFeeder Tech Blog

Today, we launched a StyleFeeder Tech Blog for those of you who are interested in the black magic that goes on behind the scenes here.  Jason‘s been doing all of the writing so far, mainly about our CF recommendation engine and Fast Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization.  There’s some cutting edge stuff here. For those of [...]

Startups and business plans

Last week, the Boston Globe published an article about the differences between east and west coast investors and their attitudes towards startups. Someone pointed out that the main difference can be found in one line: “The mentality of East Coast investors is ‘Show me revenue first, and then we’ll talk again.’ “ And while I [...]

The Logo Game

One of the vexing tasks for any entrepreneur is to come up with a name for their fledgling company (see The Name Game), one that goes hand in hand with, if you’re not careful, an excellent opportunity to negate all the hard work exerted in choosing your company name: the logo. Recently, I had an [...]