February 2011
7 posts
Going All In and Risk
This is a re-post from Will Cole’s personal blog
Recently I decided to leave my job at Thomson Reuters to go all in on an unfunded startup that I started with Kevin Marshall. This was a remarkably easy decision, but one that took me a long time to even approach.
I’ve read about risk tolerance and how it’s a major factor in defining an entrepreneur (along with several other...
And we're back
We’re back from fixing up some back end issues and are opening up our alpha to a larger group. We’ve already brought in hundreds of new users from our waiting list, so if you haven’t signed up now is the perfect time!
knowabout.it thinks about 'Big Data' and machine...
Knowabout.it relies on a custom built aggregation platform (that we’ll eventually release more information on and an API into so everyone can play along with us). Like our whole company, this aggregation platform is in it’s early stages, but it’s already clear that we are going to be dealing with massive amounts of data very very quickly.
Getting to play with this massive data...
Down for Maintenance
Know About It alpha users will notice some down time today as we perform some scheduled maintenance. We’re currently moving over to amazon web services which will allow us to open up the site in a formal beta shortly.
We’ll let you know as soon as the site is back up!
Your Video Stream
The core concept of Know About It is surfacing interesting content that flows through your social streams in the form of links. Some of those links that come through your streams are videos, and if you spend any time checking Twitter or Facebook on you mobile phone or at work, chances are you skip over watching those videos in real time. I found myself missing out on lots of interesting content...
What does your tagline actually mean?
In case you haven’t come across it yet, this is the one-liner we use to describe know about it:
Knowabout.it tries to make sure that you ‘know about the great stuff’ passing through your social media services.
We think it’s pretty accurate in describing the basic idea of what we are trying to do…but you might be thinking, “Nice line and all but what does it...
Straight answers to tough questions.
For those of you that don’t know, in addition to improving the entire knowabout.it service, we’ve also started to hit the funding trail. We are trying to raise a small seed round (so we can build out the team a bit more and ramp up our overall efforts to get out of a closed-alpha stage).
In the course of these initial talks, we’ve been hit with all sorts of great feedback,...
