Thanks to Steve and Alexis

Special thanks to Steve and Alexis of Reddit.com, who stopped by McIntire last week to talk about their startup experience.

The presentation went over well with everyone, except Alexis's old communications professor, Marcia Pentz-Harris :) I could hear audible groans coming from that side of the room as Alexis ignored a year's worth of presenting advice and started cracking jokes with the audience.

Regardless, it was a great time :)

To the guy taking photos at the talk: Leave a comment! I'd love to either link to your photos or put them online on the VEO wiki.

Meet the founders of Reddit on Monday, March 19th

I've recently invited Steve & Alexis to come down and speak @ UVA. The talk should be a lot of fun, it will be great to hear the story of these two guys, who, IMHO, founded Y Combintor's most successful startup.

If you're reading this in time, you're more then you're more than welcome to come!

Here's the flyer:
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Steve and Alexis of Reddit.com, 5PM on Monday in Room 122
(Click the link for more info)

What's it like to found a startup?
Are you interested in the "startup life?" Come this Monday to hear the story of two UVa grads who pulled it off, founding Reddit.com. Today Reddit has 160,000 unique daily visitors, and is one of the top 250 most visited US sites on the net.

Background:
Steve graduated from the E-school in 2005, Alexis graduated from McIntire the same year. After raising less than $100,000 in VC funding, Reddit was recently acquired by Conde Nast (publishers of Wired Magazine). Press about the site is here.

When: Monday, March 19th at 5PM.
Where: McIntire Room 122
Sponsored by: Virginia Entrepreneurship Organization and AKPsi

COME EARLY FOR FREE PIZZA!!!!
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Gentoo & Mother

About 2 years ago I purchased a dell server, naming it mother...

Well as it turns out, I'm pretty happy with my setup. I've spent a LOT of time customizing / optimizing it (as usually is the case with Gentoo).

But there's just one small problem: I'm beginning to realize that I've come so far, I don't remember how I got here! I'm not sure how long it would take for me to rebuild everything if this server ever went down. I'm not even sure if I'd remember all the customizations / installs I've made, let alone HOW I made them...

So, in that light, I've decided to carefully "blog" all the changes I make to my server on its wiki page (http://bluwiki.com/go/BluWiki:Mother). Hopefully this will help me figure out what I've done, if I ever need to do it again. As an added benefit, it might also help others do the same...

Wikis - surprisingly international

I guess this shows how insulated I am... I never really expected BluWiki to get serious usage outside of the US.

In fact, according to Google, wikis are getting much more (normalized) attention in other parts of the world. The US doesn't even rank in the top 10 countries searching for the term wiki:


My experience with BluWiki confirms this... Of all the sites I run, it is the most "international." Only 55% of visits are from within the US. While this might sound high, for comparison, the traffic to every other site I own is at least 97% domestic.