Ariel Diaz

I just wrote on the YouCastr blog about the YouCastr blog about the Fantasy Sports Trade Association Conference in Chicago that I went to. Overall it was great to help spread the word about YouCastr, and to meet other people in our industry. Outside of the panels, I went to a Cubs game [...]

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About a week ago there were a couple of very interesting blog posts about why startups fail, taking different view points:

Why Startups Fail: David Feinlab, Mohr Davidow Ventures
vs.
How “Why Startups Fail” Fails: 37 Signals

Both are very interesting reads, and I won’t go through point by point to comment on them. I’ll just pick one [...]

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Does anyone else find it just absolutely inane (I can use a number of other adjectives as well) that Chrysler is offering a $2.99 Gas Guarantee? On pretty much every level you look at it, it’s just silly.
As a promotion, it feels pretty empty, because you can do the math pretty simply and realize [...]

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Last Wednesday I went up to Hanover, NH, to give a talk to a group of Thayer students and faculty at an event called Celebrating Thayer. Thayer is the engineering school at Dartmouth College, where I graduated with a Masters in Engineering Management in 2004, after completing my undergraduate engineering degree at Dartmouth as well.
I [...]

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I write a lot over at the YouCastr blog, where I am co-founder and CEO. However, I have found that there are a lot of thoughts and comments that aren’t really relevant to YouCastr, so this is a blog where I can write and share my own thoughts with some more freedom.
It’s also an [...]

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