Jeff Lee

The Value of the Designer Who Codes by @garrytan

Great piece by Garry Tan of Posterous and now Y-Combinator. If you can design and code, you’re a double threat. Add business/management experience to the mix: Triple Threat.

http://www.inc.com/garry-tan/the-great-value-of-the-designer-who-codes.html

There’s a new breed of tech experts out there, and they’re poised to take over design and engineering at the most innovative of start-ups.

Path: The Social Network That Stole Christmas

Good piece from Gizmodo about Path. I recently started using Path myself. The Android app is gorgeous on my Galaxy Nexus. Not a ton of friends using it yet, but the potential is great. Also FYI, Path has the most beautiful office view in San Francisco. I visited it in August on the Zaarly startup crawl (see photo).

http://gizmodo.com/5872488/the-social-network-that-stole-christmas

Imagine a social network that combines the voyeurism of Facebook with the visual intimacy of Instagram, the real-time newsreel of Twitter with the exclusiveness of a backyard barbecue.

One Of My 2011 Highlights: Having my startup@sevenlunches featured on @TheNextWeb

One of the highlights of my 2011 was getting my startup 7Lunches featured on The Next Web in a piece written by Brad McCarty. The piece ran right before I left for a month long trip in August to San Francisco and Silicon Valley to promote 7Lunches (link in left column). On my first day in “the valley” I went to a TechCrunch meetup and party, and met several important people who had read the article and knew who we were! It was the beginning of a pretty successful trip.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/22/sevenlunches-sends-you-daily-lunch-specials-based-on-your-location/

If there’s one thing that the daily deals have yet to master, it’s the art of reliability. Oh sure, I can get a discounted dinner once in a while, but there’s not been a solid way for …