Andy Rankin

For the past several weeks a dedicated team of folks at Viget have been working on updating the web site. We set a target launch date when we started and they managed to make the deadline! A lot of hard work was put in by a few key people and many others chipped […]

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Health insurance is a huge pain - in many ways.  The entire health care industry is a bit screwed up.  Don’t get me wrong, I have had the good fortune (depending on how you look at it) to deal with quite a few very competent doctors and nurses over the past several months so I’m […]

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The talk over the past couple of weeks has been about the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! Other than Flickr, does anyone still use Yahoo!? Okay, I’m sure plenty of people do - actually my wife and I use the Yahoo! address book because we’re still waiting for Google to come out with a […]

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There’s a new Computerworld article out about Rock Star Coders. Several folks at Viget talked with Mary Brandel, the author of the article, about the concept of rock star coders. Our connection to the “phenomenon” is that Emily used the term in one of our recent creative job postings. Overall the article […]

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I could make this a long story but I’ll try to keep it short. It starts off with me buying something from Verizon Wireless so you can guess where this is going.
I’m finally ready to give up on my Treo 700p. I’ve been using a Treo for years now. It seemed so […]

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My involvement with Startup Weekend goes back to when Brian headed out to Boulder to give a talk for the TechStars guys. His trip overlapped with the first Startup Weekend so Brian took a detour out of his follow-on vacation to stop by. He talked to Andrew Hyde and the guys and mentioned […]

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Startup Weekend is cruising along (without much participation by me due to baby #2’s schedule) and they have picked a name; check it out: HolaNeighbor.
Brian has an update up on the Viget Blog.

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The latest edition of Startup Weekend got kicked off in the DC area this evening.  Brian and I are hosting the event over at our new space and so far things seem to be going great.  We had a lot of people turn out tonight and we hope a lot of them come back tomorrow.
My […]

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I’m liveblogging BarCamp DC over at Viget’s Four Labs.

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My company, Viget Labs, is in the process of having new space built out. By September we’ll be moved over to the new space. I’ve been scrambling over the past several weeks to get our essential needs squared away. One of the toughest thing is picking the right phone system.
The system we’re […]

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