Terry Jones

From here:

So, while you think enviously about the $1.65 billion YouTube snagged from Google (or, as someone pointed out, approximately $3 million per day of their existence), you can feel some sympathy for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp — owners of the site utube.com. Turns out, plenty of people have been hearing the name YouTube and assuming it was UTube. So, those people have been checking out the wrong site… and knocking it completely offline (which is why we won’t bother even linking to it now). Of course, the head of Universal Tube knows an opportunity when his web server stats show it to him. He’s already turned down a million dollar offer on the domain, and is holding out for at least $2.5 million.

From this article:

I had the pleasure of moderating the presenters at the Stirr mixer last
night (see also ValleyWag coverage). I like these gatherings, mostly
because the pitches are very brief: Entrepreneurs get 60 seconds to make
their case. Also, Stirr events are at bars. Can’t beat that. (By the way,
the 60-second pitch is not briefest pitch format. At the upcoming SF Beta
event, the presenters will have to cram their pitches into haiku.)

I love it, and I’d love to try it. It levels the playing field beautifully – with grass cutting blades set to Super Low. There isn’t much room for marketing fluff in a haiku.

Teqlo