I love these two videos we filmed with Maya’s Mom’s founder, Ann Crady. It’s a real Silicon Valley garage-based startup (it’s a parenting site, but it’s still cool to see that valley startups are still starting in garages — not too far either from another famous Palo Alto garage-based startup: Hewlett Packard).
Maryam and I both shared this interview, this was done before we knew we’d be parents too (our kid is due September 12).
These videos and others I’ve shot over on ScobleShow (RedFin and Jott are coming later today).
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Robert – Congratulations to you both!
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Robert – Congratulations to you both!
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Good day to be born… well add one and it will. That would be the same as mine so that has to be good.
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Good day to be born… well add one and it will. That would be the same as mine so that has to be good.
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It’s a bit awkard to hear a company that has closed $9M in funding to be working in a garage. Come to think of it, isn’t it a bit absurb? Think about the distractions (I thought I heard a train go by) and the inconveniences for the employees. If you can pay a minimum salary of $40K to 1 employee, can’t you shell out $20K for a small nice and quite office space where programmers can think and have room to be creative?
Julius Alba
CTO, Newbie Labs
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It’s a bit awkard to hear a company that has closed $9M in funding to be working in a garage. Come to think of it, isn’t it a bit absurb? Think about the distractions (I thought I heard a train go by) and the inconveniences for the employees. If you can pay a minimum salary of $40K to 1 employee, can’t you shell out $20K for a small nice and quite office space where programmers can think and have room to be creative?
Julius Alba
CTO, Newbie Labs
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Julius: where did you hear that they raised $9 million? All I can find is they raised about $1 million in angel round. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/27/mayas-mom-raises-angel-round-launches/
I think it’s great when companies are frugal with their cash. I’ve lived through a boom and bust where companies were not so frugal. That wasn’t fun at all.
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Julius: where did you hear that they raised $9 million? All I can find is they raised about $1 million in angel round. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/27/mayas-mom-raises-angel-round-launches/
I think it’s great when companies are frugal with their cash. I’ve lived through a boom and bust where companies were not so frugal. That wasn’t fun at all.
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I believe starting a business out of a garage isn’t cool anymore it’s ‘old skool’, apparently starting your new venture from a coffee shop is 😉
Maybe you will have to start hanging out at coffee shops with your camera Robert..
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I believe starting a business out of a garage isn’t cool anymore it’s ‘old skool’, apparently starting your new venture from a coffee shop is 😉
Maybe you will have to start hanging out at coffee shops with your camera Robert..
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