Last night we presented lil’grams for the first time publicly at the Web Innovator’s Group sponsored by MSFT and VenRock Capital . The event is put on by VenRock’s David Beisel who invites three unfunded startups to present to a group of non-paying attendees as the “Main Dish” and several more as “Side Dish” presenters. […]

Our business model is based on a local interaction front (Ranvir and I are between Cambridge and New York, Greg is mostly in San Francisco) for our distributed (US and international) team of Rails and PHP developers and designers.
It’s been a very interesting process up until now, and safely we can say it’s definitely challenging […]

For more years than I can remember, I’ve advocated the position that all things social are inherent to our understanding of the world, making them unable to be bottled or packaged in any way that doesn’t automatically feel a little disproportionate to our understanding of them.
I’ll grab one old quote to illustrate this disconnect:
The two […]

When we first started Blue Whale Labs, Ranvir and I were both product guys who realized we had gathered a lot of experience about building applications. Of course, when you make the switch to providing services, it’s hard to put away your product aspirations.
Early on, we came up with the concept of our […]

I woke up this morning to a surprise tweet point me to an article on the New York Times site.  As the page appeared, the title “Twittering from the Cradle” showed up and my interest was naturally peaked.  As I read through the article, I encountered the names of many people and products that I […]