Oliver Roup’s Blog

• The disrupted of Davos « BuzzMachine

February 5, 2010 – Very interesting view of the WEF

• 12+1 Signs That You Have Founderitis – GigaOM

February 3, 2010 – Om Malik on Founderitis

• Dear MBAs who want to work at startups | from This is going to be BIG! – Comments on New York Tech Community, Startups, Venture Capital and Career Education

January 30, 2010 – Charlie O’Donnell, EIR at First Round Capital (one of our backers) writes just excellent advice for MBAs trying to work at startups. It’s a little harsh at first but also spot on. I think this advice goes in both directions (Entrepreneurs shouldn’t think they know what all “MBAs” are like just because they met some asshole who couldn’t shut up about Harvard) but I did see a number of my classmates committing some of these errors.

An awesome and pretty self-explanatory graph from an awesome blog I just got sent. It’s three years old so I guess I’m just behind the times. (MySpace? What’s that?)

• Conan Blowing NBC's Money, Spends $1.5 Million For One Minute Segment (VIDEO)

January 21, 2010 – Conan sticks it to NBC by doing a comedy bit with a Bugatti Veyron ($1.0m car) and by playing a clip from the Rolling Stones. Awesome. (Although I doubt he really bought that car…)

• Chinese Fingerprints Said to Be Found in Google Attacks – NYTimes.com

January 20, 2010 – This is pretty exotic stuff. Is the Chinese government really hiring the types of hackers that read Chinese math journals to pursue their electronic espionage? This stuff all seems pretty aggressive.

• The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

January 19, 2010 – Hillarious Windows 7 bug – solid background color desktop -> 30 second delay while booting.

• (Adobe) Flash Gordon! | MetaFilter

January 14, 2010 – Flash, implemented in javascript. The mind boggles.

• On how Google Wave surprisingly changed my life – This is so Meta

January 13, 2010 – Google Wave being put to use in real life. Very cool.

• Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

January 13, 2010 – Wow! That is some cheap storage!

• This Will Be The Year Adobe’s 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone

January 11, 2010 – Interesting. I always wonder where they get these numbers. Two million (active? de-duped?) flash developers seems like a lot. But the broader point is well put – the number of iPhone apps in the world may be about to mushroom. Now of course if Adobe can add support for Android and Windows Mobile…