Finding the valley
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After a couple of minutes of driving south on 101 from SFO, me and my  co-founder buddy realized there was no valley. Instead, we found an old long Mexican road taking us through the suburbian fast-food life. And it all seemed pretty flat to us. Buildings were houses or 3-story offices for real-estate brokers. Where was the corporate HQs? Next to that pizza-place?

Was this really it?

Is this where they throw money at you if you're an advanced user of basic features in Microsoft Power Point?

It sure didn't look like we had imagined. And they all spoke Spanish anyway, so what was the point of having left Chile in the first place?

Eh, what the heck... lets just find a great bar and party all night long...

 

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Posted by oskar on 18/07/2008 at 07:40 PM

 … Is when you overdo advertising.

Now… I might not be the smartest guy around, but I am a fairly fluent web-user. Probably top 20% in the world. I could not remove this ad from ask.com, there was just no way… and as you can see it LITERALLY made it IMPOSSIBLE to use Alexa...

 

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I tried to click on it, maybe 30 times. Maybe more. But nothing.

Any other good ideas to get rid of it? I already did take a screen-shot and kind of “wiped” the ask-box away using a photo-editor but couldn’t see what’s behind (and it’s hard

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Is it me? or all of them?

Posted by oskar on 14/07/2008 at 01:21 AM

1 AM and I am preparing to go to sleep. As a true Swedish internet entrepreneur, I am in my underwear with my laptop safely distanced from my skin with an IKEA-pillow.  It’s hot in Menlo Park. Not hot like “it’s rocking” (it’s really boring) but rather just plain warm… temperature that is. But not Celsius!

 

No, to make it even harder for us in the quest for the valley they have chosen an alternative way of describing the world around us. Meters are miles. I think. Temperature is “in the 90s” but I am not in a (Read more)

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Is it everywhere?

Posted by oskar on 12/07/2008 at 10:32 PM

Next time I met with the valley it sneaked up on me during a shorter trip to Mexico City. I flew in together with my amigo and CTO @Daniel for a voluntary participation in an entrepreneur's competition. One could imagine a competition in the true spirit of Mexico...

MBAs fist-fighting after a heavy tequila-race? violently (what else) shoving Business Plans down each others throat... but it was nothing like that. We aren't even MBAs.

...but in reality it was a very civilized event. Three panel-debates would decide if we were worthy a membership or not. I didn't like the idea

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July 2007

Posted by oskar on 11/07/2008 at 01:17 AM

First time ever in the invisible valley and getting prepared for some mentoring meetings with the so called VCs. The VCs are people and shall not be confused with toilets even though they do cause that same feeling of hesitation and being nervous when you are about to go, the nice relieving feeling when you’re doing it and that pointless wish of never having to go again when you’re done.

 

Having googled a little bit about “this and that” we had realized that the best entrepreneurs would show up to these meetings in shorts and t-shirts. So we dressed up (Read more)

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