Brian Ma's Blog (@zealoustiger)

Weekly insights from an Entreprenuer: To spend one year as a tiger is better than to live forever as sheep

Monthly Archives: March 2008

Haha. BigDog does it again.

A couple days ago, my eye caught the awesome BigDog robot experiment. And today found out from Drew’s post that Beau (a Zillow buddy) and gang at pantlessknights has done it again after their awesome Mac or PC rap.  I was super confused at first, but it was SOOO funny after I got it. Here’s [...]

It is lonely being an Entreprenuer…

So I like to take some time everyday reading about how others have gone through it. Today, I was lucky enough to run into this great post from CuriousOffice comparing Entrepreneurs vs. arm chair quarterbacks. Here’ s a highlight: (But I encourage you to read the whole blog post, it’s concise and to the point) [...]

Startup Studio: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

Unemployment for me so far has meant – working out alot + fooling around with IPhone + startup stuff. In the interest of multitasking and making my time more efficient, I’ve managed to combine all those things into one. Check out Startup Studio. As they put it, they’re about “Interviews with extraordinary entrepreneurs. Hear how [...]

Best IPhone Apps

I’ve tried to stay away from Apple for the longest time cause I’ve never been able to figure out their single button mouse, but yesterday, that was no more. I GOT AN IPHONE! (and I named him TIGER) Iphone is by far the best design I’ve seen in a long time – both the hardware [...]

Skillbit: Tragic startup ending

I’ve followed Skillbit pretty closely while they were still in development, so I’m sad to hear John Cook report that they’ve officially been dissolved. For those of you that haven’t heard of Skillbit, it was an experiment to run and build a startup from initial conception and incubation, to actually building out the product and [...]

I have a secret…

Two weeks of sweet and blood (no tears yet) and I’ve finally completed my first business plan. I had no idea it was going to be so hard. So I’m now officially in “stealth mode”. :) Sounds cool huh? Let me know if you wanna know my secret plans to take over the world and [...]

“Business is easy”

“Business is easy.” Rich Barton, the big man at Zillow, said this once at an all company meeting… And it’s haunted me ever since. I can still remember where I was, what the weather was like, what pizza I was eating, and even what shirt Rich was wearing. I can replay it over and over [...]

Zillow Dueling Digs

I try not to write too much about Zillow, but this is definitely worth mentioning. Zillow just launched its new Dueling Digs feature yesterday.  Basically, Hot or Not for homes.  First move into the home improvement space with a game?! Genius. I know the team worked extra extra hard on this (since I was there), [...]

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