January 2012
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I'm in Google's SOPA/PIPA video... →
Huge thanks to EngineAdvocacy for making this happen. Really really well done.
December 2011
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Spare me from "Product Guys" →
I wrote a post for Tech Crunch? Cool!
November 2011
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Tutorspree Blog: Why NYC isn't Silicon Valley:... →
tutorblog:
Aaron is a cofounder of Tutorpsree, and a tutor. He also tends to write blogs every now and then.
I love New York City. I grew up 10 miles away. I left for college and came back. I left for YC and came back to build Tutorspree with Ryan and with Josh. We have more New York City…
October 2011
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WatchMaybe it would have been cooler if I had pitched in the elevator, but this was pretty great anyway.
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Cycling Propaganda from NYC
Good job NYC…but the poster might be more effective if you didn’t photoshop one of the pictures to just be…darker.
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Tumblr Redesigns Edit Theme Panel
Smart move by tumblr allows you to actually edit your custom html in window. Solid little built in text editor.
Ryan Fitzpatrick. NFL Quarterback...Harvard Grad. →
Not only that, but he beat Yale a lot…
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September 2011
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Tutorspree on Stage at YCNYC
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YCNYC Talk from Aaron Harris on Vimeo.
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The Great Dictator Speaks to the Future (feat/hans...
Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4
While this is playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrAm9Eiqcw
Charlie Chaplin and Josh Abrams for the win.
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The Hustle and the Bustle, aka Startup Life →
Strongbad, I miss you.
August 2011
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new favorite aphorism
Old School: Two birds, one stone.
New School: Many pigs, one bird.
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July 2011
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Google is serious about this whole design thing →
Agree with @kn0thing that it’s a solid video. Even more interesting to me is Google’s obvious intent to create a friendly, “styled” feel for the page. Though they could do with a nice bit of css3 hover state on that button.
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The best job at Google →
This is the link you find when you google “google jobs.”
How long until google is a thinkum dinkum?
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Apple discovered a new feature! Full screen... →
I love OSX, I really do. But I love apple’s self laudatory announcement on finally adding fullscreen windows even more.
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June 2011
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It's not about the t-shirts
We don’t have Tutorspree tshirts yet. Shocking, no? We’re incorporated, launched, have users, growth…but no shirts! And there’s a simple reason for that: it hasn’t made it to the top of our priorities yet. We simply haven’t gotten around to it, and that really isn’t a big deal.
I’ve met a number of other folks in the startup space recently who, I...
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Alley vs. Valley, or, why we're coming home
A little over four months ago, we found out that we had gotten into Y Combinator. After we were done jumping up and down and shouting, we realized that meant we were going to have to pick up and move from NY to the Bay Area. Between running around and looking for subletters, buying tickets, packing, and saying goodbye to friends, we had glimpses of what the move might mean. We talked about whether...
March 2011
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Shout out to Tutorspree from the WSJ →
February 2011
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Amelia does crazy awesome things with The Black...
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Tutorspree in the NY post →
Totally worth remembering.
January 2011
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It's not you, it's your users: the new bizdev
There’s a funny thing happening in a consumer facing world increasingly focused on social media as a means of advertising. There’s a lot of talk about the virality of various campaigns, but there’s a side of that paradigm that isn’t discussed as often: the disruption of the traditional model of biz dev.
In the old days, there was a guy, or a team, whose job was to go out...
Simonbrief: My deep MLK Day roots →
siguy:
My experience at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School shaped me tremendously. One of the most unique aspects of the school was its fervent and seemingly religious celebration of Martin Luther King Day. I have powerful memories of our school assemblies and the songs we would sing like If I had a…
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if {Smarter AND Harder AND Faster} then TRUE else...
I was a huge fan of Ducktales growing up. I can still sing the majority of the intro song, recall most of the characters, and was always willing to allow for the physical impossibility of both Scrooge’s ability to swim through money and the existence of Duckburg as a city where dogs and various billed fowl lived in cross-species harmony.
The really interesting thing about the show, looking...
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Scale means never having to say you're sorry?
AT&T had me locked in as a customer the other day. As far as I knew - following quite a lot of research on the interwebs - they were my only choice for broadband. I had just spent an hour getting bounced around by Comcast (including one woman who sounded like a Russian expat living in Delhi) before being told they could not help me. So, I surrendered to the less good DSL being promised by...
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ABCD some more: Craigslist, stolen parking spots,...
Turns out that picking up Craigslist items and using the wrong parking spots can be a hell of a way to network. Recently bought an air mattress and a futon from two different startup CEOs. Then, when Josh and I got back to the apartment, we parked in a spot that turned out to belong to the head of the science department of a local high school who loves the idea of Tutorspree and wants to talk...
December 2010
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NASA\'s Internet in the Classroom Video - The... →
A reminder of the power of the internet…especially in the minds of early 90s students. No small thing that everyone quoted lives in silicon valley, but let’s ignore that for the moment
The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’ « OkTrends →
Perhaps the best use of data analysis I’ve ever seen.
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Of Tax Cuts and Proton Micropiles
I had drinks with my friend Alex last night. As it often does, we started talking about the Fed, Wall Street, economic turmoil…and physics. Or, more precisely, we started discussing how insane it is that the best and brightest in the country go work on Wall Street instead of at JPL, or CalTech, or even Skunkworks.
I brought up an incident I remember from the heart of the financial crisis....
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Who am I? Identity in the cloud and the new...
I’ve always had my fair share of nightmares (literal, here…you know, wake up in a cold sweat kind of thing). They ranged from the truly terrifying upon waking (big big dangerous spiders), to the nearly farcical - trapped in a cage of excel? Yep, that happened several times and probably reflects some of the pain I experienced as an entry level investment banker.
Every time one of these...
November 2010
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you don't have to be an ass to network
There seems to be a strange virus propagating through networking events. Main manifestation: being a jerk and throwing the word “network” around. Not really sure why or where that came from, though I have some theories.
I think that there is a perception among certain people that the best way to get respect, connections, and deals is to drop names and list accomplishments. By doing...
