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December 2011

  1. Benny and the jetts by tv girl shared from exfm
  2. Public vs private sharing
  3. Eating in New Orleans
  4. Fuck this place by frightened rabbit this song is
  5. Scenes from the french quarter new orleans
  6. Six weeks by of monsters and men i know im late
  7. When you love somebody fruit bats by the
  8. Back at the hotel and playing chess with my buddy
  9. As i mentioned in my previous post today 3rd
  10. If i try my best and fail well i tried my best
  11. Winter song by the head and the heart shared from
  12. Tagstand – NFC tags, labels, and stickers
  13. Android Apps in 2012
  14. Fred wilson christmas day she him more
  15. The first noel by bright eyes shared from exfm
  16. My favorite albums of 2011
  17. Redemption song by joe strummer the
  18. It is not healthy for companies to trade at prices
  19. Talking about Santa with my youngest daughter
  20. Yo la tengo here comes my baby
  21. Cults oh my god shared from exfm
  22. Bright eyes first aid kit were going to be
  23. Getting promoted too quickly
  24. People try to get offline as much as they can but
  25. Jamessabet bowler
  26. Dr dog shadow people shared from exfm
  27. Overbroad Censorship & Users
  28. Morning chat with my five year old
  29. Youth lagoon goodbye again original by john
  30. Little things I’d like to see polished in Ice Cream Sandwich
  31. Daily mail by radioheadso good shared from exfm
  32. A few times a year they let the parents watch a
  33. A poem by my 5ry old yellow jump crunch
  34. Ben kweller commerce tx live bk just what i
  35. Via tumblr staff neat addthis just published
  36. Go to sleep by the avett brothersshared from exfm
  37. Mobile Platform Wars
  38. Snow porn
  39. Humanity is social social peaks when humanity
  40. The national bon iver vanderlyle crybaby
  41. Two high level congressional staffers who have
  42. Grateful dead uncle johns band shared from exfm
  43. MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet Without A Problem, Why Can’t The US? | Techdirt
  44. I love newnewtwitter and i love how they
  45. Stars asleep original by the smiths happy
  46. One Way vs Two Way Relationships
  47. Needing an arctic monkeys fix
  48. The thing about open source
  49. Dr dog that old black hole such a great
  50. Paycheck just frosting on change the world cake
  51. Verizon is making a mistake
  52. Gorillaz 19 2000 soulchild remix turn it up
  53. Bon iver holocene enjoying this sunday evening
  54. Homemade ornaments from the 70s this is
  55. Dealing with email
  56. Do for love vodka milk remix by 2pacshared
  57. So embarrassing
  58. Well the first days are the hardest days dont
  59. Siouxsie the banshees dear prudence happy
  60. Stars bbc radio 1 session by the xxshared from
  61. Academia.edu

November 2011

  1. New order temptation shared from exfm
  2. MG’s excitement about CrunchFund investments
  3. Newbury street boston took this photograph
  4. Connecting local voices
  5. David noel the head the heart when i fall
  6. Tree by the river by iron wine shared from exfm
  7. M ward post war shared from exfm
  8. I was doing a bunch of errands early this morning
  9. Band of horses the great salt lake shared from
  10. The decemberists king of carrot flowers part
  11. Does your startup suffer from the Inner Circle
  12. The other day i wrote about discovering the
  13. The coasts john lennon shared from exfm
  14. A five year olds prized possession taken with
  15. Newspeedwayboogie kanye west and neutral milk
  16. It appears that tumblr built in a day or two what
  17. RunKeeper
  18. Bright eyes gold mine gutted shared from exfm
  19. You wont who knew discovered this first on my
  20. Gatekeepers
  21. Fred wilson whats going on marvin gaye cover
  22. Dawned on me live solo acoustic session version
  23. American Censorship Day
  24. The national twenty miles to nh part
  25. Most problematic though the fire does not have
  26. Daryn Nakhuda: iOS to Android (and back again)
  27. Youth lagoon cannons loving this band shared
  28. Tumblr doesnt show others how many followers you
  29. A minor place bonnie prince billy by
  30. Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
  31. Who doesnt like a seesaw leica m9 1180sec
  32. The radio dept heavens on fire acoustic ooh
  33. Leaf pile 160 sec f40 28mm iso 400
  34. Never interrupt someone doing something you said
  35. Steve Jobs: The parable of the stones
  36. And how does a cleantech enthusiast motorcycling
  37. Morning run crisp fall morning taken with
  38. Mgmt all we ever wanted was everything i missed
  39. How to Fix iPhone Camera Roll Crash
  40. Love out of lust by lykke lishared from exfm
  41. Design like youre right listen like youre wrong
  42. Some thoughts about A/B testing
  43. Young people who move to an apartment or get a
  44. Eminem sing for the moment shared from exfm
  45. @twitterstories
  46. The decemberists sonnet new song from one of my
  47. how are you liking the M9? Worth the plunge?
  48. A painter and a painting on newbury street leica
  49. Tokyo police club wait up kexp shared from
  50. Since 1980 the gdp has doubled but wages have
  51. Bright eyes lua
  52. Harvard bookstore took this at 10pm last night
  53. Blood red moon demo version by the xxshared from
  54. Oh darling the beatles cover by florence the
  55. David karp at tumblr hq just got my first range
  56. Clap your hands say yeah maniac ive got the
  57. When big companies kill internal products
  58. David noel the black keys lonely boy the
  59. 10 weeks in a row whos gonna save me taken
  60. Ive always bristled at companies that get overly
  61. Sonic youth superstar original by the
  62. Geofencing has arrived
  63. Oh wow oh wow oh wow

October 2011

  1. M ward carolina fuckyeahmward used to feel
  2. New song from the Decemberists
  3. My gapingvoid image arrived today now hanging in
  4. Snow patrol mysterious ways great cover
  5. Jonsi animal arithmetic so good
  6. Startup Audacity
  7. To that end the proliferation of twitter logos
  8. The district sleeps alone tonight by the postal
  9. I walked by sufjan stevensshared from exfm
  10. Some of my favorite startups that haven’t raised venture capital
  11. Pitchfork arcade fire and neil young perform
  12. Idontswim baby its cold outside she and
  13. You know what an oval is its a circle cept way
  14. One u2 by damien riceshared from exfm
  15. There are so many options now for fledgling startups now for seed investment and advice – YCombinators, Tech Stars, 500 Startups, etc. Should one pursue them all? Is one better than the rest? Does geography of where one is matter? Thanks in advance for your thoughts…
  16. Google Galaxy Nexus. Yay or nay? ;)
  17. How are you doing?
  18. Some thoughts about Siri
  19. Spoken band of horses cover by noneshared from
  20. Via 20x200 print information cbgb stage by
  21. Eels looking up shared from exfm
  22. Brin: “I’m Not A Social Person” But “Google , I Instantly Found Compelling”
  23. Walked thru yerba buena gardens this morning
  24. Ben kweller from hank to hendrix love this
  25. Believers vs non-believers
  26. The only thing we want to do is get the product to
  27. Were the free speech wing of the free speech
  28. The company has gone from having 30 of its 100
  29. Tv on the radio you turn it up shared from exfm
  30. Siri on the meaning of life
  31. Youth lagoon afternoon heard this for the first
  32. We had a good time apple picking today fuji
  33. Arctic monkeys no buses shared from exfm
  34. So funny
  35. The future of the tablet
  36. Fred wilson just like heaven the cure cover
  37. A kiss
  38. Soccer practice fuji x100 iso 200 f22
  39. My tv takes 5 10 seconds longer to turn on than my
  40. You dont eat people food and give your developers
  41. Finding new music
  42. I now have more twitter followers than the town i
  43. Via brycedotvc occupywallstreet on foursquare
  44. Metric collect call
  45. Here comes autumn i should have increased the
  46. Mumford sons golden slumberscarry that
  47. Startupquote no more romanticizing about how
  48. A knot fuji x100 iso 800 f40 1250 sec
  49. Lets go dad
  50. We are at disney world with the kids and our
  51. Jedi in training taken with instagram at
  52. Family vacation
  53. Apple’s influence on my life
  54. Azspot steve jobs 1955 2011
  55. https://bijansabet.com/2011/10/06/7780/
  56. If everything is shared automatically nothing has
  57. The Carrier Question
  58. Last night lauren and i went to the ica fuji
  59. Constraint
  60. Hell-bent on making it work
  61. Kick drunk heart by the avett brothers this song
  62. Bon iver bethrest solo piano version whoa
  63. The head and the heart lost in my mind the
  64. An afternoon at the playground
  65. The head and the heart down in the valley we

September 2011

  1. Cover Fridays
  2. Scenes along my walk to work fuji x100 iso
  3. Hello, comments are back on
  4. Arctic monkeys colour of the trap alex turner
  5. Bedtime story iso2500 f20 160sec
  6. V3 is nearly here
  7. Way yes johanna found this song on exfm so
  8. Im having an absolute blast with my new x100
  9. Personality make product friend you help friend
  10. There are two types of companies those that work
  11. The national conversation 16 acoustic via
  12. https://bijansabet.com/2011/09/27/7827/
  13. There are no rules for good photographs there are
  14. But the fear at least in my case is less about
  15. When you talk to people you dont know on tumblr
  16. One Cloud To Rule Them All ?
  17. Yellow ostrich tightrope my addiction
  18. If i could sit in a room with david karp then i
  19. There is however one other characteristic that
  20. Google: 2/3rds of our mobile search comes from Apple’s iOS
  21. Via tumblr is a pageview machine now bigger than
  22. Yellow ostrich zebras im obsessed with this
  23. Morning ride with lauren
  24. Skateboarder
  25. Ugc taken with instagram
  26. Clap your hands say yeah same mistake you can
  27. Via fred wilson new facebook layout translated
  28. I may not know troy davis but i dont have to in
  29. Yellow ostrich fake empire i love this
  30. There is nobody in this country who got rich on
  31. Eleven by thao mirahshared from exfm
  32. Day 1 with my new camera taken with instagram
  33. Listening to electrocution bill fox by nada
  34. gordy’s wrist straps
  35. My dual citizenship on Tumblr
  36. The kooks is it me the two songs ive heard off
  37. David noel soupsoup foundation 10 dennis
  38. Fuji x100
  39. Trojans by atlas geniusshared from exfm
  40. Dedication
  41. Florence the machine shake it out new single
  42. Whatever your role is at the company you work
  43. Bon iver your love original by the outfield
  44. Via jasons tweet
  45. Greplin makes the cloud better
  46. The head and the heart down in the valley live
  47. Via parrot asteroid an android powered car
  48. Lauren just sent me this photo of james first
  49. Driving from sf to sand hill first time driving a
  50. Simple girl by dale earnhardt jr jrshared from
  51. Nielsens social media report
  52. Startups and COO’s
  53. Joe strummer burning lights
  54. Lykke li sadness is a blessing gold panda
  55. She and him taken with instagram
  56. A beautiful evening in westport
  57. Daddy when you were little did you ever wonder
  58. Learning from your engaged users
  59. The rolling stones not fade away happy cover
  60. Just ordered
  61. We should think of revenue as the way people think
  62. Conor oberst breezy
  63. A tale of two rounds
  64. Delayed taken with instagram
  65. Radiohead there there live via exfm
  66. My new digital photography workflow
  67. Time for a morning ride taken with instagram
  68. His go to pose these days
  69. Tokyo police club long distance call loving
  70. Joshuanguyen my god were growing so much so
  71. Tokyo police club all my friends
  72. While newsweek and the wall street journal and
  73. Some thoughts about Sonos
  74. Via superman vs google comic nitrozac and
  75. Bright eyes train under water live unplugged
  76. If you could take a bike ride anywhere in the world, where would you go?

August 2011

  1. let’s assume that you’re a talented musician hoping for a big break. given that, if you could sing or play one song with one band – what would that night look like? the song (could be a cover), the band, the venue. but what i really want to know: what would you wear? thanks!
  2. Morning Bijan. If you had $50K in 2011 US dollars to invest in a single entrepreneur at any point in human history, what would you invest in and why?
  3. How old is you dog? And how did he adjust to kids?
  4. What has been your biggest challenge so far this year and how did you approach it / learned from it?
  5. hi:)your picture of your family is beautiful:)how is life treating ya?
  6. What is your favorite Clash song, and why?
  7. The upside of rejection strikes again
  8. Frightened rabbit confetti one awesome band
  9. Arctic monkeys that where you are wrong turn it
  10. Thoughts about signal to noise
  11. Beirut goshen from the upcoming new album
  12. Metric the end has no end great cover of a
  13. A month later in an all Google world
  14. Quoting steve jobs via david
  15. The clash somebody got murdered
  16. Jobss greatest creation isnt any apple product
  17. Last night we passed our goal of raising 50000
  18. White stripes you dont know what love is i got
  19. when are you going to respond to my questions about comments? a blog without comments isn’t a blog — its a soapbox. what happened to the emphasis on “conversation”? steve
  20. One song can change the world
  21. Neil young out on the weekend live
  22. Jackson and ellie
  23. Write once, share anywhere
  24. Clap your hands say yeah in this home on ice
  25. Audacity beats predictability over the long haul
  26. Kids had a blast this week on cape cod
  27. Oh man they are sooo lazy
  28. Fred wilson there is a light that never goes
  29. Listening to miss k by deer tick
  30. Lauren reading
  31. Listening to how come you never go there by
  32. Taxing the rich
  33. She weird but funny like you daddy
  34. What record labels can learn from the NYT’s porous pay wall
  35. Later john watch out fred
  36. Listening to belle sebastian space oddity
  37. Listening to arctic monkeys reckless serenade
  38. Just got a ride on the back of david karp vespa
  39. Listening to 505 by the arctic monkeys
  40. Sharing music from the cloud to Tumblr
  41. Listening to luckiest guy on the lower east
  42. Generationals carrying the torch shared via
  43. We may have split team loyalties in our family
  44. Lykke li jerome
  45. Latest tech things I’m playing with
  46. Listening to jens lekman an argument with
  47. A warm beautiful summer night along the charles
  48. Rolling stones love in vain cant help but play
  49. A high cliff along the eastern edge of nantucket
  50. “Silence was the canvas”
  51. How do you feel about investing in single founder companies ?
  52. Angus julia stone silver coin my new
  53. James taken with instagram at galley beach
  54. People say why dont you give it up i cant
  55. Always Be Recruiting
  56. Monsters of folk losin yo head
  57. A summer weekend in Vermont
  58. The clash stay free

July 2011

  1. Riding thru vermont
  2. Taking the jump at warren falls vt
  3. My ipad home screen
  4. On a hike with laurensabet lincoln mountain
  5. Bright eyes first day of my life song goes out
  6. Sophia self portrait 2
  7. Fear of new technology
  8. Notorious big x grateful dead
  9. Memory lane
  10. New headphones taken with instagram
  11. Listening to in the summertime by the head and
  12. Leaving money on the table
  13. Listening to dale earnhardt jr jr nothing
  14. Morning chat with Ellie, age 9
  15. Ra ra riot can you tell love this
  16. Problem with gmail and iphone
  17. A quick review of Lion
  18. Listening to stars asleep original by the
  19. Business attire taken with instagram at spark
  20. Wearing my awesome foursquare hoodie taken with
  21. Stars celebration guns
  22. Garychou david noel beastie boys vs sesame
  23. Do we want multi-user profiles on our devices?
  24. Twitter users now create a billion tweets every
  25. Listening to the tallest man on earth weather
  26. The kooks jump of the heart happy brand new
  27. Listening to the coastals know your onion
  28. To regulate or not regulate technology
  29. Ring out by justin vernon heard this on on
  30. Sleepy jamessabet taken with instagram
  31. So working in a group of 10 people within a large
  32. Lol
  33. The flaming lips buggin an awesome summertime
  34. Beirut the rip tide new album coming next
  35. Tumblr gestures & data
  36. Application developers play a fundamental role in
  37. The clash somebody got murdered 2
  38. Beastie boys say it via joelaz
  39. A skateboard and a jet pack what else do you
  40. Hey Bijan – Really love your thoughts on maintaining conversations on the Tumblr platform, but I couldn’t help but notice that you haven’t enabled replies on your posts. Curious why that is, whether you’d prefer to use the Tumblr ask over this native dashboard feature or if you logic is, “If I can’t
  41. why didn’t you answer my question about comments? cmon, dont be andreesen. be wilson. enable comments. why would you not have comments? :) your humble servant, steve kane
  42. Arctic monkeys colour of the trap alex turner 2
  43. Lauren and ellie are up in vermont for a few days
  44. This is my central issue with google s current
  45. Its heating up again but its still not anything
  46. There was a point in the late 90s where all the
  47. The raconteurs feat pete townshend the seeker
  48. Sweet
  49. Company culture is so important
  50. David noel apex manor under the gun ive had
  51. Random things this morning.
  52. Kid cudi best coast and rostam batmanglij all
  53. My favorite google post so far
  54. We found a cool place called the lobster shack in
  55. Whoa laurensabet jut found these twitter napkins
  56. Cold war kids mine is yours
  57. The national pretty in pink heard this on my

June 2011

  1. Margot and the nuclear so sos broadripple is
  2. Big Pictures
  3. Lets mutually agree to cut each other some slack
  4. The evolving venture capital business
  5. The national about today sometimes you wake up
  6. Still figuring this out
  7. Modest mouse the good time are killing me
  8. Now we have google which in turn allows you to
  9. Now we have google which in turn allows you to 2
  10. Now we have google which in turn allows you to 3
  11. Still figuring this out 2
  12. Modest mouse the good times are killing me
  13. The good times are killing me modest mouse
  14. The good times are killing me modest mouse 2
  15. The good times are killing me modest mouse 3
  16. The good times are killing me modest mouse 4
  17. The good times are killing me modest mouse 5
  18. Modest mouse good times are killing me
  19. Modest mouse good times are killing me 2
  20. Modest mouse good times are killing me 3
  21. What’s your favorite gadget these days?
  22. John a year in the life of tumblr and now at
  23. Skateboarding taken with instagram
  24. Band of horses the general specific i love this
  25. Biking running taken with instagram
  26. Looking for help updating to iOS 5 beta 2
  27. Foursquare is not just about the check in or
  28. Modest mouse gravity rides everything
  29. I was at foursquare hq the other day in nyc when
  30. We are not asking for tax breaks or favorable
  31. Bon iver i cant make you love me an unreal
  32. If exfms early efforts with its iphone app are
  33. Clap your hands say yeah same mistake brand new
  34. exfm for iPhone !
  35. Our investment in CSN Stores
  36. Margot the nuclear so sos as tall as cliffs
  37. Andrew Parker – The Gong Show: Welcome David Haber
  38. Jimi hendrix like a rolling stone
  39. I distinctly remember switching from altavista to
  40. I got your point about “Tumblr isn’t quite a blog. It’s something else.” But I believe knowing the reaction of you audience is always important. Many times comments bring great value to the post, plus having that idea exchange with your audience is always healthy.
  41. Testing out Tumblr w/o comments
  42. An amazing fathers day taken with instagram
  43. Pavement gold soundz
  44. Time Warner Cable Considers Usage-Based Internet Billing – Bloomberg
  45. Ellie and i grabbed the front row seat on the
  46. Black kids im not gonna teach your boyfriend
  47. A tired little boy taken with instagram
  48. Painted palms i will truck happy cover friday
  49. Some advice for students that want to work at a VC firm
  50. M83 graveyard girl
  51. Im giving a short talk at angel bootcamp this
  52. Eels fresh feeling
  53. What makes a good founder if there were a word
  54. iCloud vs Dropbox
  55. Tokyo police club breakneck speed its monday
  56. Michael jordan vs lebron james no contest mj
  57. And when chris messina a developer advocate at
  58. The radio dept heavens on fire
  59. Soccer fan taken with instagram at weston middle
  60. Cold war kids hospital beds via daytrotter
  61. Newspeedwayboogie thom yorke after the gold
  62. Here at least light blue beats dark blue
  63. The roots the seed 20
  64. Hi Bijan, knowing your love of music I thought I would reach out and see if you had any plans to attend the Newport Folk Fest this year. We are in Boston’s backyard and putting together a team of influential tumblr’s to attend. It would be great to you and the family out to the fort enjoying the mus
  65. A day with iOS 5 beta
  66. A big piece of the story we tell ourselves about
  67. The individual members of the cupertino city
  68. David noel brett dennen san francisco
  69. https://bijansabet.com/2011/06/08/8323/
  70. The asteroids galaxy tour the golden age this
  71. My room on turntablefm is on fire right now
  72. Ios 5 makes it even easier to tweet from your
  73. Breakfast brown rice cake organic peanut butter
  74. There are too many leaders anointed because they
  75. Via goodforyourears east harlem by beirut
  76. At the park
  77. Bon iver michicant shared via exfm for iphone
  78. Apples market cap vs microsoft intel
  79. M ward howlin for my baby
  80. Series awesome via
  81. Are you at all interested in investing in music startups?
  82. Dinner chat with @jamessabet, age 5
  83. There is no shame in monetization
  84. My morning jacket first light digging the new
  85. New from twitter search photos beautiful
  86. Took 3 years to send first billion tweets now we
  87. David asked me to share my thoughts about
  88. Business attire taken with instagram
  89. Death cab for cutie home is a fire posted
  90. After we launch a new feature i keep a close eye
  91. Sometimes in life you meet people that inspire

May 2011

  1. Noah and the whale blue skies 2
  2. Bon iver cant make you love me live on jimmy
  3. An afternoon ride with my little guy taken with
  4. Do you have any advice on how to avoid common mistakes when accepting seed capital from friends/family? I’m a first-time entrepreneur and would very much appreciate your input.
  5. Thoughts on 20 Under 20
  6. Sorry for the radio silence
  7. Extended family pic
  8. Mobile Only
  9. Startup fundraising isnt about convincing
  10. My old friend taken with instagram
  11. Arctic monkeys piledriver waltz acoustic alex
  12. Inside rounds
  13. The rolling stones sway
  14. Youre only taking the first ten employees so by
  15. The second half of this album is as glorious a set
  16. Morning chat with @jamessabet, age 5
  17. New order hellbent david sent me a link to
  18. A tip for all CEOs: do you have to attend that meeting?
  19. Getting ready for the spark portfolio summit look
  20. The real time vs the later web
  21. Davehyndman bon iver calgary new bon iver
  22. We were able to notify displaced patients via
  23. Bon iver lump sum via texturism lump sum
  24. Family sushi night taken with instagram at yama
  25. The map on my iphone is so much better than the
  26. But i have zero experience or expertise in
  27. If they big companies cant succeed at it i
  28. The shins taste of cindy a jesus and mary
  29. Blitzen trapper maybe baby a single from this
  30. Why are we listening to the bush administration
  31. Comparing Tumblr to WordPress
  32. Shout out louds my friend and the ink on his
  33. Do you hold office hours or is there a startup event in Boston that you would be attending in the near future? Would prefer to come by and introduce myself and then chat/email about our venture rather than just send a cold email.
  34. I just folded my last venture and looking to start again fresh. What do you think is a better approach when assessing ideas/opportunities to pursue: top down (pickingg a market/industry and finding the gaps) or bottom up (finding a problem and then working your way up)?
  35. what is your favorite album of 2011 so far?
  36. The strokes ill try anything once love this
  37. Loving Instagram
  38. Alicia keys superwoman a song for all you
  39. Shared startup experiences
  40. The cure vs the commodores mashup how great is
  41. John lennon be my baby a cover of the classic
  42. The Monster In Your Head » Work-Life Balance is Bullshit
  43. So, my mom dropped HBO
  44. Peter gabriel heroes a powerful cover original
  45. Ellie in a wind tunnel taken with instagram at

April 2011

  1. My morning jacket holdin on to black metal new
  2. Frightened rabbit confetti inspired by
  3. Theres a lot of stuff thats accidental about fog
  4. Don’t be shy (continued)
  5. At 42 im now wearing reading glasses taken
  6. Colin meloy goodbye girl jumping the gun on
  7. Information Arbitrage – The Entrepreneur/VC Dynamic
  8. Melodramatic Bullshit
  9. Bon iver re stacks ive been traveling a lot
  10. The drama of being a venture capitalist isnt
  11. Square’s Keith Rabois: Websites are dead, reinvent for mobile | VentureBeat
  12. Jenrobinson tv on the radio caffeinated
  13. A beautiful view of nyc on my flight this morning
  14. Founder liquidity
  15. A Message To Graduating MBA’s
  16. Conor oberst milk thistle acoustic
  17. James ellie
  18. Sleigh bells rill rill turn it up
  19. The often-rumored Apple HDTV – Marco.org
  20. Just had a long catch with my daughter easily the
  21. M ward bye bye love
  22. Came downstairs and found the little guy ready and
  23. Joshuanguyen bravo apple thanks for making
  24. Wilco color me impressed a replacements cover
  25. Weve had lots of positive press from fortune in
  26. Solving real problems
  27. And i second with emphasis the focus on fairness
  28. Of monsters and men from finner the addiction
  29. My daughter made this at school last week taken
  30. When your startup is grinding it out in a market like this
  31. Photoboothing taken with instagram
  32. Why I switched back to iPhone on ATT
  33. Adele last night i like this cover original by
  34. If this vc gig doesnt work out im starting a
  35. Additionally mr applbaum said his company could
  36. Schwepervesence essence beastie boys make
  37. Who is your customer
  38. Doerr just about fell off his chair surely he
  39. Eels all the beautiful things
  40. The end of the app store innocence?
  41. The head and the heart cats and dogs love
  42. Generationals trust from last years trust ep
  43. She plays he sleeps taken with instagram
  44. Rhett miller motorcycle club
  45. We received this email today from my daughters
  46. A final word of advice dont punk out and dont
  47. Hot chip sexual healing

March 2011

  1. Sensitive VCs or something else ?
  2. Had a facetime chat with my little man james this
  3. David bowie five years its been awhile since i
  4. While i doubt ill get so lucky a third time as
  5. A few days with only data, no voice
  6. The head and the heart chasing a ghost i am so
  7. Now thats what im talking about
  8. Some thoughts about competitive portfolio companies
  9. The head and the heart sounds like hallelujah
  10. Echo the bunnymen ticket to ride liking this
  11. At the twitter 5th birthday party taken with
  12. Arctic monkeys riot van acoustic and awesome
  13. When we started we thought we were looking for
  14. Launching new products with video
  15. Echo the bunnymen the game acoustic demo a
  16. Does your company culture allow mistakes
  17. The vaccines if you wanna im digging this
  18. Im on cloud nine just got this amazing and
  19. The 140 character limit is the essence of twitter
  20. While it took about 18 months to sign up the first
  21. Arcade fire ready to start live session from
  22. The jam the gift
  23. The national think you can wait new song by the
  24. Colin meloy bring it on home to me a wonderful
  25. It occurred to me that i could be in the ramones
  26. I am going to see Ben Kweller for the first time tonight. I’m “studying” up on his work thanks to @rdio. What albums would you recommend I “focus” on?
  27. Hey Bijan, There’s a Boulder startup called SparkRelief, a non-profit that aims to connect people displaced in a disaster with anyone who has resources to spare. They’ve got a website, http://quakehousing.com/ which has hundreds of listings from people affected. Please help to get this message and U
  28. I know it sounds aw shuckish but its true
  29. Okkervil river wake and be fine fred and i have
  30. Help Japan
  31. Its an age old problem exacerbated by
  32. Bright eyes nothing gets crossed out the last
  33. Startups are in a unique position to weave the
  34. My youngest daughter put my hair in a ponytail
  35. Bright eyes a perfect sonnet the bender
  36. Some thoughts about my tweets
  37. Bright eyes from a balance beam turn it up
  38. Bright eyes papa was a rodeo the show last
  39. Startup quote
  40. Competing with your ecosystem
  41. Bright eyes going for the gold headed back to
  42. Stack Exchange (fka Stack Overflow)
  43. We had a blast at the bk show tonight
  44. When anonymous speech is destroyed whether under
  45. Ben kweller run laurensabet and i are going to
  46. Our new investment – Kik
  47. Arctic monkeys brick by brick brand new song by
  48. If youre not designing an app that is meant to be
  49. Arcade fire month of may acoustic live turn
  50. Laurensabet wearing her twitter tee taken with
  51. Since you can’t outsource your soul, you can’t outsource your design
  52. Shout out louds spoken original by the band of
  53. In most peoples vocabularies design means
  54. Whitneymcn pavement cut your hair ah
  55. Thingsthatscarelaurenleto
  56. Neutral milk hotel holland 1945 turn it up

February 2011

  1. Looking for the Vimeo of photos
  2. Our last morning on the beach we are heading home
  3. Gcn buffalo tom age of consent orig by new
  4. Taken with instagram
  5. The best priority inbox
  6. The kids are alright taken with instagram
  7. David noel yellow ostrich fake empire the
  8. Nobody is proud of their identity on facebook
  9. Dont be a google bitch
  10. Nevis peak nofilter taken with instagram
  11. This made my day taken with instagram
  12. Dinner along the beach and under the stars was
  13. Attack of the clones
  14. My model for business is the beatles they were
  15. Taken with instagram 2
  16. https://bijansabet.com/2011/02/22/8722/
  17. Sleeping poolside taken with instagram
  18. The thing about music startups
  19. Family vacation taken with instagram at boston
  20. The rural alberta advantage coldest days i
  21. Radiohead lotus flower via joelaz a
  22. Anniversary taken with instagram at troquet
  23. Some thoughts about Android Tablets
  24. Our greatest stars were alienated they were not
  25. Bright eyes first day of my life 16 years ago i
  26. Working late taken with instagram at the
  27. David noel the shins so says i when in
  28. Meritocracy inside our social networks
  29. Netflix support was the most common request we had
  30. David wilcox burgundy heart shaped medallion a
  31. His favorite bedtime story these days taken with
  32. M ward to save me sunday morning with m ward
  33. In the past we could do little things for love
  34. Making cool paper airplanes with jamessabet
  35. The decemberists cuyohoga i missed tumblr cover
  36. A little older
  37. Ben gibbard farmer chords
  38. Music Piracy
  39. Conor oberst sausalito heading to the bay area
  40. Lunch with santopoliti and mokoyfman taken with
  41. Dear Microsoft, I don’t want your dividend
  42. Angus and julia stone santa monica dream
  43. The alarm absolute reality acoustic in high
  44. Getting in a workout removing the snow off our
  45. Ben kweller believer
  46. Traditional tv has too many ads users have
  47. Catching up on my tweets taken with instagram at
  48. Eels i could never take the place of your man
  49. Spark Capital is Hiring
  50. Eels a line in the dirt
  51. Inspiration is hard but worth it
  52. Alexander ebert a million years alexander is
  53. Shout out louds a track and a train
  54. What he said taken with instagram
  55. The ideal tablet form factor

January 2011

  1. Bright eyes beginners mind this new record is
  2. Backyard rink is ready who wants to play taken
  3. Cat stevens if you want to sing out sing out i
  4. Playing trains with my buddy jamessabet taken
  5. Discussion on topics from geopolitical events to
  6. Peter gabriel dont give up
  7. The morning benders temptation inside your
  8. Bijan, What is the best way to contact you professionally about a project/business that I would like to get funding/support for? A friend and I are in the process of working on a business plan for an idea and I remembered I have been following you for a bit on Tumblr. Thanks! Sal
  9. Bright eyes haile selassie brand new album from
  10. I want to get rid of my phone number
  11. Amtrak canceled taken with instagram at amtrak
  12. I gotta talk to davidkarp about this if im
  13. Okkervil river wake and be fine brand new song
  14. New year, new theme
  15. Old 97s no baby i getting my altcountry thing
  16. Using the iPad more and more
  17. Your move kid taken with instagram
  18. Geri x landlocked blues this bright eyes cover
  19. Love this
  20. So the judgment that you have to make is a is
  21. Amanda palmer high and dry heard this cover on
  22. My love affair with SMS may come to an end
  23. Itunes has paid over 2 billion to app developers
  24. When you raise a family you dont have 100
  25. Jeff tweedy heavy metal drummer bootleg from a
  26. Jeff tweedy heavy metal drummer bootleg from a 2
  27. A convo between stuartroseman and me
  28. Thoughts on a standing desk?
  29. For emma bon iver amazing
  30. I have decided to stick with love hate is too
  31. Someday everything interesting you see online
  32. Ica
  33. My scarf keeps me warm outside and props up my
  34. At my daughters audition taken with instagram at
  35. Bill bragg wilco hesitating beauty
  36. When it comes to hiring, best not to force it.
  37. This cycle hope hype despair rebound etc
  38. Heres my song for cover friday band of horses
  39. For emma bon iver amazing 2
  40. Because if this is gonna be a christian nation
  41. The clash four horsemen
  42. The financial markets will come and go sometimes
  43. The white stripes forever for her
  44. Meeting with a VC
  45. Where the heck were you when the page was blank
  46. A well deserved promotion
  47. The decemberists calamity song got a sneak
  48. Sleepy boy taken with instagram
  49. Some thoughts about failure
  50. Animal collective banshee beat
  51. M ward when i get to the border feat zooey
  52. My home page
  53. Ben kweller wantin her again
  54. Mobile is a more and more and more common use of
  55. Jp morgan research found that 47 percent of all
  56. Omd vcr original by the xx i love this cover
  57. Omd vcr original by the xx i love this cover 2
  58. The miracle of simplicity (aka iA Writer review)
  59. The clash somebody got murdered 3
  60. The clash somebody got murdered 4
  61. The head and the heart sounds like hallelujah 2
  62. How much seed capital should you raise
  63. The shins kissing the lipless
  64. Where should we keep our content
  65. A few weeks with the Nexus S
  66. Phoenix if i ever feel better
  67. Camera obscura happy new year

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December 2010

  1. New helmet taken with instagram
  2. Elvis costello i threw it all away happy cover
  3. The tallest man on earth the dreamer
  4. Theres too much stuff it seems to me that almost
  5. Me and jamessabet on a chair lift taken with
  6. Our goal is to help make texting while driving as
  7. My favorite albums of 2010
  8. My favorite albums of 2010
  9. Ben kweller somehow singlemalt version
  10. Family hockey taken with instagram
  11. Arctic monkeys the afternoons hat i find that
  12. Mobile messaging apps
  13. Best products of 2010
  14. Took this pic of lauren video ellies winter
  15. The decemberists calamity song
  16. Yo la tengo its christmas time happy xmas
  17. Your Tumblr reach is likely bigger than you think
  18. Bright eyes shell games from the new record
  19. Frightened rabbit things
  20. The culture of Android
  21. Snowing in boston taken with instagram
  22. Too much of the coverage has been meta focusing
  23. Radiohead killer cars acoustic
  24. Yeasayer ambling app im not ready to list my
  25. David noel nada surf enjoy the silence
  26. Quick review: Nexus S
  27. Quick review: Nexus S
  28. Okkervil river for real
  29. Last night steven colbert received the first ever
  30. The rolling stones sway 2
  31. Biz on the todayshow talking about the top
  32. New order love vigilantes fred reblogged my
  33. While people younger than 30 years old have spent
  34. The internet we know today exists only because
  35. Telekinesis car crash new single awesome turn
  36. Beirut a sunday smile late with my song of the
  37. Stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on rt 95 one of
  38. Proving the skeptics wrong
  39. Holiday sweaters taken with instagram
  40. The national england acoustic beautiful
  41. Via bnter
  42. Tv on the radio heroes original by david bowie
  43. A conversation on bnter
  44. Intellectual ventures accumulating patents is like
  45. The pixies here comes your man
  46. Taken with instagram 3
  47. Edward sharpe the magnetic zeros fire
  48. Good old jackson taken with instagram
  49. Google’s Nexus Strategy
  50. Matt costa cold december
  51. One of the best things i read during tumblrs
  52. The avett brothers if its the beaches a
  53. The who baba oriley
  54. All the while theres a huge glaring
  55. The flaming lips just like starting over
  56. If you want a set top box that allows you to watch
  57. Day trip to nyc taken with instagram
  58. The who put the money down

November 2010

  1. Bright eyes well whiskey and just when i got
  2. Thoughts about seed startups and their mobile app decisions
  3. Dont let people tell you your ideas wont work i
  4. Iron wine biting your tail whoa this is a
  5. Its called denial
  6. Ive taken to twitter like a duck to water its
  7. The magnetic fields strange powers
  8. The rolling stones loving cup on the flight
  9. Getting a breakfast taco taken with instagram at
  10. Newspeedwayboogie alex chilton anyway
  11. Holiday spirit taken with instagram
  12. Thanksgiving
  13. Whitneymcn bright eyes road to joy not
  14. Our wired kids
  15. Next stop austin taken with instagram
  16. Jens lekman tracey thorn yeah oh yeah a
  17. Mates of state california weve been on the
  18. a chat with my kids in the car last sunday
  19. A look back at the early days of Tumblr
  20. Some thoughts on the Beatles and iTunes
  21. Girl talk every day the new album is awesome
  22. The power of constraints
  23. Dirty projectors stillness is the move
  24. The avett brothers november blue
  25. Getting help from jamessabet taken with
  26. Led zeppelin hey hey what can i do
  27. Board dynamics
  28. Newspeedwayboogie elvis costello brilliant
  29. Biz and ev on jimmy fallon loved it
  30. Biitzen trapper sadie from the their recent
  31. And to the haters put up or shut up you think
  32. Multiple facebook and twitter accounts i guess
  33. Shake it shake it sugaree
  34. While investors are great counselors one must
  35. My morning jacket phone went west
  36. Memories taken with instagram
  37. What comes after Google Street View ?
  38. The shins girl sailor im in the middle of a
  39. Ramones blitzkreig bop starting off the week
  40. Ncarrot2 frente bizarre love triangle new
  41. Yo la tengo you make me feel good
  42. Do you check email on weekends?
  43. Okkervil river mellow my mind original by neil
  44. A few weeks ago the ceo of phone company verizon
  45. Busy two days in nyc time to go home wiped out
  46. Theres now even more evidence that subscribers
  47. Nada surf agony of lafitte a sweet cover
  48. The standard nyc
  49. In a first ever move google is now carrying ads
  50. Loyalty
  51. Modest mouse gravity rides everything 2
  52. Bon iver skinny love the weather is getting
  53. The companies i started after that varied between

October 2010

  1. At wholefoods with my bud taken with
  2. Stars i died so i could haunt you a great song
  3. A beautiful fall day taken with instagram
  4. Mumford sons unfinished business white lies
  5. Bright eyes you will you will you will you 2
  6. Quick review: MacBook Air 11″
  7. Arctic monkeys do me a favour live at the
  8. At the garden celtics v heat taken with
  9. My morning jacket wordless chorus
  10. Rewarding vs bribing your users
  11. Bright eyes drunk kid catholic so much pain in
  12. Old 97s my two feet baby trust me your
  13. Limited partners want to be with vc firms that get
  14. The Mac App Store
  15. Squeeze another nail for my heart
  16. Corner kick taken with instagram
  17. I had a nice chat with sarah lacy last week on
  18. The shins we will become silhouettes sometimes
  19. Civil Rights
  20. Stars your ex lover is dead
  21. The flaming lips fight test i thought i was
  22. A flock of birds flying around an object in flight
  23. Spoon dont let it get you down
  24. My friend andy telling it like it is
  25. Arctic monkeys too much to ask b side
  26. Android marketplace vs iPhone app store
  27. Belle sebastian for the price of a cup of tea
  28. The shins strange powers its cover friday so
  29. Looking back it was a big mistake that i was ever
  30. Its gone from must see tv to must tweet tv
  31. Old 97s two family trees one of my favorite
  32. The kooks she moves in her own way
  33. Phoenix long distance call
  34. Family hike blue hills taken with instagram
  35. Time and place shifting the web
  36. Wilco red eyed and blue
  37. The smiths panic a classic
  38. As ceo there is never enough time to gather all
  39. Hand to hand combat
  40. Frightened rabbit confetti original by the
  41. Radiohead fake plastic trees
  42. This is amazing iamwill created this stunning
  43. Gruber retweeted this and it made me laugh
  44. Belle sebastian little lou prophet john
  45. High quality recommendations
  46. The replacements kiss me on the bus
  47. Looking for suggestions – family ski trip out west
  48. Bright eyes coyote song from the artists
  49. Band of horses the general specific
  50. Went to sams in tiburon for dinner tonight
  51. Arcade fire heroes

September 2010

  1. Okkervil river unless it kicks
  2. Does a small amount of capital lead to small companies?
  3. Newspeedwayboogie bob dylan dont think
  4. Homework
  5. 2 billion
  6. The clash three card trick
  7. M ward cosmopolitan pap sunday tradition
  8. Do More Faster
  9. The postal service suddenly everything has
  10. Whether its tied to an entrepreneurial vision or
  11. Jer coons love vigilantes original by new
  12. Thank you, Marco.
  13. The decemberists sunshine
  14. My wish list for Android
  15. The antlers bear
  16. I think we should be able to own numbers like we
  17. M ward stars of leo sunday morning with m
  18. The jam absolute beginners
  19. Should i drop out of school ?
  20. Tom meny ill follow you into the dark i have
  21. Justin vernon bruised orange chain of sorrow
  22. Is it just me or has iOS become quite buggy?
  23. The very first company i started failed with a
  24. Via fred wilson chart of the day twitters
  25. Conor oberst and the mystic valley band wedding
  26. Introducing the new twitter via soupsoup
  27. If you like gadgets
  28. May I help you? No thanks, just looking.
  29. M ward color of water sunday morning with m
  30. The iPod nano (touch)
  31. Stars the night starts here david noel stars
  32. Sunday girl time to pretend acoustic cover
  33. Fallin slowly jay z vs the swell season buy
  34. The second screen (continued)
  35. Belle sebastian write about love the bender
  36. Interview with ev jack and biz in dec 2006
  37. The big company vs a bootstrap
  38. The antlers two i love how this song builds
  39. The latest version of bump is so good it made to
  40. Belle sebastian scooby driver ive been on a
  41. The landline
  42. Summer is just about over it was a good one
  43. The lemonheads its a shame about ray a very
  44. Its harder but a lot more fun
  45. My most listened to artists over the last 3
  46. Belle and sebastian im a cuckoo listening to
  47. And then he looked up at me and just stared at me
  48. Why facebook blocked apple from that because ping
  49. The drums we used to wait live cover of arcade
  50. Who else is investing in this round?
  51. In technology once you have bad programmers
  52. Frightened rabbit last tango in brooklyn up

August 2010

  1. Clones vs the real thing
  2. The rolling stones you cant always get what you
  3. Mia and jonah coalminer
  4. Paying for content and the honor system
  5. The winter blanket drag yesterday afternoon
  6. Eels spectactular girl in less than a day im
  7. Bike ride out to marconi beach cape cod
  8. Kite kids
  9. Kings of convenience gold in the air of summer
  10. Technical Debt
  11. Newspeedwayboogie sufjan stevens arnika from
  12. According to a timescbs news survey found that
  13. The replacements little mascara i have a slow
  14. One non-techie perspective on Facebook Places vs FourSquare
  15. Regulating technology
  16. He posted his weight on twitter everyday and lost
  17. The hold steady chips ahoy acoustic
  18. Or as my wife calls my vacation not working from
  19. So how do austerians deal with the reality of
  20. Psychologists refer to this as the paradox of
  21. There is something magical about local
  22. The who under my thumb classic original by
  23. Stars dead hearts a friend of mine sent me the
  24. The same court on which you suffer your bloodiest
  25. The open web
  26. With googles acquisition of android it will be
  27. Edward sharpe the magnetic zeros river of love
  28. Some thoughts on hiring managers at your startup
  29. The who so sad about us
  30. Roman ruins the comedown i like how some
  31. In suns early history we didnt think much of
  32. Balancing urgency with thoughtfulness
  33. M ward pale blue eyes live im very close to
  34. The rolling stones like a rolling stone happy
  35. Two weeks in NYC
  36. Family dinner at the breslin bar
  37. The ramones 53rd and 3rd our two weeks living
  38. Movie windows
  39. Frightened rabbit son c new and awesome
  40. My boy likes my fancy magic tricks somehow i
  41. Jay z vs marvin gaye hello brooklyn featuring
  42. M ward sadie original by joanna newsom
  43. The soul of a product
  44. Another wonderful day in nyc meetings all day and
  45. If we are unwilling to have a full scale debate
  46. We are currently staying in an apartment in the w
  47. Acquisitions done right
  48. Two of my favorite apps just got better
  49. Perspective

July 2010

  1. Revisiting apps that sync
  2. Checking out 3d tvs kids say yes im not sure
  3. The ipad is also too heavy to comfortably hold in
  4. Ben kweller thirteen sappy song i know but
  5. Flipboard – wow!
  6. How come you’ve never acknowledge your Iranian background and heritage? I feel like you should use your position to support Iranian entrepreneurs the same way that some other VC’s ( i.e Shervin, Hooman, etc) do.
  7. A follow up to my strategic investor post
  8. A few thoughts about some rules I keep on this blog
  9. The new pornographers moves turn it up and
  10. I want to start a small business, and besides capital (and many other things), I know I need to write out a business plan. Suggestions on where to start? I’m a complete noob at these things, and no, I’ve never been to business school. Thanks!
  11. What’ll it take for the Red Sox to overtake your beloved Yankees this year?
  12. Are you philanthropically engaged in your community ?
  13. What was the biggest obstacle to your success? -@JCHeidi
  14. Most people i know have problems with internet
  15. Arcade fire city with no children reblogged
  16. Even though i was taught about sunk costs in
  17. The avett brothers famous flower of manhatten
  18. Lauren and i just did a facetime call with my
  19. M ward one more goodbye i think sunday
  20. Murder mystery change my mind discovered
  21. Just got home and discovered my dodocase arrived
  22. Some thoughts on Flipboard and content owners
  23. Old 97s five years daryn turned me on to this
  24. Wearing my new twitter tshirt
  25. Band of horses laredo so good
  26. What will we see coming out of app inventor
  27. Matthew the atlas i will remain yesterday
  28. A quality that i find hugely important but
  29. Should a startup bring on a strategic investor?
  30. Eels looking up
  31. David noel beck sunday morning velvet
  32. Caterpillarcowboy anniehinton the national
  33. Thinking out loud about an idea: Ride Sharing
  34. Handle with care jenny lewis with the watson
  35. Omgpop pets now in beta sweet
  36. Bob dylan positively 4th street
  37. Teacher Reviews
  38. Paul westerberg once around the weekend live
  39. I hate atts quality but i dont hate it enough
  40. Ill admit now that i didnt grow up in a june
  41. Google App Inventor is the right idea
  42. Bon iver creature fear love this version from
  43. Our summertime tradition
  44. She him lotta love matt and zooey take on
  45. iPhone 4 signal strength
  46. The replacements here comes a regular 2
  47. According to cofounder biz stone who spoke
  48. where do you shop for clothes?
  49. The clash the street parade
  50. Building a product for yourself or for someone else
  51. Sophia and james playing around with the iphone
  52. The final thing id say about optimism is this
  53. The national lemonworld i cant get enough of
  54. iPhone 4 – a day later
  55. Nada surf electrocution david sent me a link
  56. Penniless Philanthropist
  57. Radiohead ceremony its cover friday so heres
  58. Some thoughts about the future of super angels, MicroVCs, and venture capital

June 2010

  1. Bloggers are radio djs from yesteryears
  2. This video is well worth watching for my fellow
  3. Magnetic fields im sorry i love you
  4. Of montreal coquet coquette new album coming
  5. Leap of faith
  6. Were in long island did you grow up?
  7. Johnathan rice were all stuck out in dessert
  8. The YouTube/Viacom lawsuit and why startups need better protection
  9. Partner bijan sabet a long island native even
  10. Just reserved one for me and one for lauren at the
  11. Ben kweller walk on me last night lauren and i
  12. Newspeedwayboogie the pretenders stop your
  13. An outline for an early stage board meeting
  14. Just went on this roller coaster with my daughter
  15. Jenny and johnny scissor runner oh man im
  16. The VC market seems to go in cycles. We see a bunch of simultaneous investments by lots of VCs into things like storage devices, virtual reality, social networks, etc. Assuming you can talk about generalizations, have you seen any interesting new trends popping up in recent pitches?
  17. What is your favorite productivity iPhone app? @daman on Twitter
  18. Was the third kid a no-brainer or did you stew on it for a while?
  19. Do you like your schedule as a VC? Like you may not work that long hours but you are still happy, right? I am planning to be a VC and I consider myself a family man. I would love to have the flexibility. Am I right?
  20. What’s the one thing an entrepreneur should NEVER mention when pitching you? What’s the one thing they should ALWAYS mention?
  21. Does age of the founders matter when you are looking to invest in a company? How does it affect your decision making?
  22. However on at least six occasions during my
  23. Radiohead banana co acoustic and wonderful
  24. When someone else’s problem becomes your problem
  25. My new shoes
  26. A private letter from fathers day
  27. Band of horses our swords going back a few
  28. Around that time i attended an offsite of a
  29. Nada surf electrocution bill fox cover
  30. Are you a micro-manager or can you delegate?
  31. Jay z radiohead reckoners encore not exactly
  32. Hi Bijan, I am looking to apply to the Start@Spark program. I have a great idea, executive summary, and prototype for my concept, but have not put a management team in place. My thought is I would rather have a support team/VC partner in place so I can be properly advised and perhaps referred to a s
  33. Random thoughts about blog comments and discovering new blogs
  34. James mercer journey through the past this is
  35. Every alpha tester has received all my contact
  36. Arcade fire we used to wait yes brand new
  37. Starting today you can tag tweets with specific
  38. Fitbit
  39. The love language heart to tell i was on the
  40. The magnetic fields come back from san
  41. Take your eyes off the screen and smell the flowers
  42. The shins goodbye girl squeeze cover
  43. The evolution of desktop applications
  44. During the 90s i spent countless hours trekking
  45. The magnetic fields drive on driver
  46. Welcome, Andrew Parker
  47. Venture capital is best learned in an
  48. How do you manage investing in companies that could potentially compete with each other? Do you avoid similar investments? Is your involvement hands off enough that it doesn’t matter?
  49. How do you manage work-family balance?
  50. Are there any records on your best of 2010 list, yet?
  51. Were you a geek or a jock in school? Ladies man?
  52. I don’t really have a question just wanted to let you know I find your passion for technology and business very inspirational and its helping me move on my side projects that hopefully will one day turn into something more. Keep your thoughts coming!
  53. who is going to win the world cup?
  54. What kind of camera do you own? Looking for a new camera…..
  55. NYT & the iPad: different rules for different screens
  56. Eels saturday morning just got an email and
  57. Content owners and their different opinions about screen size
  58. Fujifilm natura
  59. Looks like I was wrong about the Zappos acquisition
  60. Bright eyes method acting
  61. What blogs do you frequent?
  62. Looking for Android app recommendations
  63. Parenthood
  64. Billy bragg shes leaving home solid cover
  65. Apparently these two puppies got lost and found
  66. Free energy something in common
  67. SaneBox – a better gmail experience
  68. My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30)
  69. Laurensabet built four of these raised flower
  70. Arcade fire the suburbs new and awesome
  71. Boston, the month of June and our tech scene
  72. Wilco poor places its june 1st and that means
  73. My tidy home page thanks to folders and iphone 40

May 2010

  1. M ward ill be yr bird this one goes out to my
  2. Mumford sons unfinished business sunday
  3. Picking up a few things at wholefoods got my
  4. Mobile apps & the missing links
  5. A beautiful night in boston via laurensabet
  6. Got some advice today
  7. Ben kweller until i die
  8. Does your VC need operating experience?
  9. Metric the end has no end happy cover friday
  10. Quick thoughts on iPhone OS 4 beta
  11. Ideas vs execution
  12. Death cab for cutie death of an interior
  13. It’s hard to do two things at once
  14. David byrne fatboy slim ft camille pretty
  15. Sitting at the gate and thinking about LOST
  16. Clap your hands say yeah the skin of my yellow
  17. Android for Mobile Just Keeps Getting Better
  18. My morning jacket bermuda highway
  19. The national clampdown im pretty sure ive
  20. Animal collective fireworks
  21. A little hack to make Gmail work better on the Blackberry
  22. Arctic monkeys cornerstone acoustic alex
  23. Love Gmail but not on the blackberry
  24. A guest post about joining a startup
  25. Camera obscura lets get out of this country
  26. Its fun to travel and see new places but
  27. Free energy free energy i am really enjoying
  28. Free energy bang pop new album came out last
  29. Nicole wahl a 35 year old communications manager
  30. The morning benders mother and child reunion 2
  31. Less and more
  32. Daryn belle sebastian piazza new york
  33. The middle ain’t an easy place to be
  34. The clash hate war one of my favorite songs
  35. My friend stu roseman is hacking together yet
  36. Some thoughts about re-entry
  37. Laura marling roll away your stone mumford
  38. When i step back and think about what motivates me
  39. I heard it somewhere that most VC’s are wannabe entrepreneurs..while that may be a bit over the top, is there some truth somewhere? How do you balance the two. I’m asking because I’m considering a career choice between one or the other.
  40. How cool is Steve Wasserman?
  41. Do you respond to cold emails, or just intros?
  42. What was your favorite part of your trip to Paris?
  43. Bijan: I’ve gathered that you’re a fellow vinyl aficionado. What’s your current phono setup and what are some of your favorite records in the collection?
  44. What are your thoughts around enterprise apps built for webOS? Do you think HP could to for the tablets in enterprise what apple has done with the iPad in the consumer market? Is this something you’d invest in?
  45. Happy Mothers Day
  46. Lets wrestle we are the men youll soon grow to
  47. One of many great memories from the past week in
  48. I still cant post my song of the day because im
  49. Digital books
  50. Just walked by this ad outside a shop in the
  51. Some thoughts about mobile from Paris
  52. The bass player i played in cover bands in high
  53. Celebrate the misfits
  54. Angelina in paris
  55. My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-2)
  56. Smart(er) Ads
  57. Stallman would recoil in horror at grahams
  58. Tres bien
  59. Ive taken a zillion photos in paris and weve
  60. A week in Paris

April 2010

  1. Vaporware
  2. The toll collector
  3. Free energy cmon lets dance new single
  4. Ordered the 3g iPad
  5. Startups & the product roadmap
  6. Wishing Rob Go the very best
  7. M ward vincent obrien an oldie but a goodie
  8. Sunday at the doctor’s office
  9. Some thoughts about privacy
  10. Facebook is the social graph market leader for
  11. Hot chip graceland this cover goes out to my
  12. What were your 3 favorite live shows in the last 12 months?
  13. The second screen
  14. Biz stone was on cbs with katie couric the other
  15. Shout out louds paper moon the new album is
  16. Random thoughts from the airport
  17. Do you think Y Combinator-esque programs with their short (3 month) durations and focus on traction discourages entrepreneurs from working on the Next Big Thing? Would Mark Zuckerberg have been accepted to build thefacebook.com? Would Larry & Sergey to build a search engine when no business model ex
  18. The clash bankrobber peter kafkas question on
  19. Hi Bijan, thanks in advance for doing this. Q: of all your personal character traits, which in your opinion has attributed the most to your success?
  20. What is your favorite restaurant in Boston?
  21. Bijan: Where is that spectacular family photo taken? I look forward to meeting you some time. my tumblr is aarondelcohen.com
  22. Favorite Clash song?
  23. what’s the best way to pitch you :) ?
  24. Have you tried Formspring? What are your thoughts on it vs. Tumblr questions?
  25. I know concrete, existing models get attention, not “ideas”. But what about the truly brilliant, potentially world-changing ideas trapped in people who are not in (or about to be in) the usual ‘pipeline’? Every consider an “open” model to vet those ideas? Thank you.
  26. Bijan, How do you get most of your news/information? RSS? Twitter? What tools help you filter everything down and keep the amount of time you spend consuming information to a minimum so you can focus on higher priorities like being productive and spending time with family?
  27. Via hypem via jenrobinson blur fools day
  28. Some thoughts about the marathon, startups & venture life
  29. M ward todays undertaking grab a cup of tea
  30. Freemium backlash?
  31. Jonsi around us jonsi is the lead for sigur
  32. The first step is creating a foundation of
  33. Edward sharpe the magnetic zeroes up from
  34. There are two types of startup ideas those that
  35. Quick thoughts after day 1 at Chirp
  36. Twitter co founder biz stone on stage at chirp
  37. The avett brothers if its the beaches
  38. In short resonance is twitters quality score
  39. Ask first before rushing to judgement
  40. The kooks california heading to sf this morning
  41. The clash charlie dont surf
  42. My reaction to Dave McClure’s post on “check-in” startups
  43. The decemberists sons and daughters
  44. Sophia had her first 5th grade dance last night
  45. Don’t forget, there is a browser on that iPad
  46. The balancing act
  47. Fanfarlo in the aeroplane over the sea original
  48. I emphasize this point when talking to younger
  49. Eels love of the loveless
  50. What is an east coast term sheet?
  51. But all that said id love to be able to develop
  52. The xx islands
  53. Okkervil river blue tulip
  54. Initial thoughts on the iPad
  55. My latest setup at the office three screens
  56. The white stripes were going to be friends
  57. Beautiful weekend
  58. Ben kweller it all happened via david noel
  59. Bon iver come talk to me original by peter
  60. At this point, a mobile experience shouldn’t be an afterthought
  61. About 15 years ago the supply part of medias
  62. The rural alberta advantage edmonton
  63. An inspiring way to join a startup

March 2010

  1. Tokyo police club tessellate acoustic and
  2. I don’t use a laptop in meetings but what about iPad?
  3. Packing blankets eels
  4. A compact camera that rivals the DSLR
  5. Rhett miller singular girl lauren and i went to
  6. Me and her
  7. A few months ago sarah palin mockingly asked
  8. Blitzen trapper heaven and earth new single
  9. Sometimes selling out isn’t just about the money
  10. Dirty projectors dark eyes love this dylan
  11. Yeasayer ambling alp traveling today no time
  12. Sen Dodd’s bill vs startups
  13. Via jenrobinson the national bloodbuzz ohio
  14. Startup Presentations
  15. Ben kweller lizzy
  16. My Daytrotter drawing
  17. Yesterday was twitters 4th birthday this was the
  18. The us congress seems to have taken the first
  19. Surfer blood take it easy i love the hype
  20. My trouble with eBay
  21. Soho hipster aka jamessabet
  22. Yeah yeah yeahs hysteric acoustic im pretty
  23. Steve jobs ridding 66 bmw motorcycle from 1982
  24. Summer in NYC
  25. Mumford sons cousins vampire weekend cover
  26. There are only two priorities for a start up
  27. What should a music social network look like?
  28. The rolling stones i aint lying mick sings
  29. My ideal home entertainment system
  30. Got the new bright eyes neva dinova on vinyl
  31. Bon iver satisfied mind i know im supposed to
  32. I really don’t care for bullies
  33. Generationals our time 2 shine i got into the
  34. The morning benders crosseyed live acoustic
  35. Stickybits
  36. The national terrible love live from jimmy
  37. Luke h im a loser eels orig by beatles
  38. The life span of a blog post
  39. Tumblr a relatively new blogging platform just
  40. Should VCs blog?
  41. Frightened rabbit i feel better
  42. My first apartment in San Francisco
  43. Notorious big vs the grateful dead skys the
  44. Bright eyes neva dinova rollerskating i
  45. Scale first, monetize second
  46. Rilo kiley with arms outstretched
  47. Startup Adolescence
  48. The national abel reblogged via
  49. The one thing technology companies do really well
  50. Bijan, First, I enjoy your blog. Second, your post regarding the need for a Spark associate got me thinking about VC in general. I work in cardiac rhythm management as a clinical specialist. I’m beginning to see some “noise”, for lack of a better term, regarding social networking in the med space. I
  51. And suddenly i was 12 and back on west 7th street
  52. The clash the card cheat from one of my
  53. Hard fi seven nation army its cover friday on
  54. Self Aware
  55. Radiohead high and dry
  56. Digitizing my old photos
  57. Arctic monkeys no buses
  58. Born ruffians i need a life such a fun band
  59. There is a fine line between getting your hands
  60. Two different discussions about exits
  61. The replacements seven days a week

February 2010

  1. The cure a night like this
  2. Sonos S5
  3. Ben kweller problems recorded this song on his
  4. Maybe the hardest part of leadershipbe it leading
  5. Fred wilson walking to work in the west
  6. We’re looking for an associate
  7. James mercer harvest a cover by james mercer of
  8. The replacements me i just found this post with
  9. Here or gone the candles discovered this tune
  10. Focus
  11. I prefer not to use flash because it tends to
  12. Kissing the lipless the shins an oldie but a
  13. James 12
  14. I sent a text to ev the day that we closed the
  15. I think it was 1996 when we met for the first
  16. Tripped neva dinova feat bright eyes the second
  17. Ill be your friend bright eyes feat neva
  18. Check out the olympic twitter tracker very cool
  19. Hear me out ben kweller from on my way which
  20. Nathan myhrvold and i have exactly the same goal
  21. Love will tear us apart joy division last week
  22. Me and james row 31 last row baby
  23. This must be the place naive melody arcade
  24. Fifteen years ago she said yes
  25. Twitter loves open source twitter is built on
  26. A taste of Mexico’s healthcare system
  27. New morning my morning jacket nick cave cover
  28. The reason why google makes so much money
  29. First day of my life bright eyes happy
  30. Four apps I want on my iPhone
  31. Some thoughts about mobile from mexico
  32. Hypem rebjukebox yeah yeah yeahs sheena is
  33. Sad eyed lady of the lowlands phoenix heres a
  34. My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7)
  35. The Swiss Army Knife Mistake
  36. Maybe it was the stale pastry maybe it was the
  37. Heavens on fire the radio dept this band is
  38. Take control over your destiny
  39. My daughter sophia made this cake for me so good
  40. Seriously. Your kids are way too cute. They’re adopted, right?
  41. Armistice phoenix acoustic
  42. Another day, another year
  43. Can you recommend a “killer PC with HDMI for $200” ?
  44. Murder in the city the avett brothers via the
  45. The devil you know may be holding you back
  46. King of carrot flowers part i neutral milk
  47. In the aeroplane over the sea neutral milk hotel
  48. Other than in case of fire theres no excuse for
  49. A wonderful day
  50. Daryn cowboy junkies powderfinger bijan
  51. Powerderfinger neil young
  52. It’s rarely up and to the right
  53. The answer to the iPhone’s poor battery life
  54. Alisons starting to happen the lemonheads
  55. I cant really make much of a pronouncement about
  56. Concrete jungles where dreams are made of
  57. To have and to have not billy bragg
  58. How to pick an independent board member

January 2010

  1. Sophia goes old school
  2. Wonderback jay z vs oasis
  3. My beef with the term “fiscal conservatives”
  4. So i made plans to go to lunch with fred and
  5. O dana okkervil river original by big star
  6. Then the ipad announcement confirmed what has
  7. Brainy the national new album coming out in
  8. Apple iPad
  9. Let me die in my footsteps bob dylan my dylan
  10. Back to the nuts and bolts of the new google voice
  11. Connecting mentors and founders
  12. A hard rains a gonna fall bob dylan ive been
  13. Thoughts after getting my new phone number
  14. Sequestered in memphis the hold steady
  15. Music startups are showing the way
  16. Normandie shout out louds
  17. It is app store mania continuing its mad rush and
  18. My body is a cage peter gabriel next week peter
  19. The most interesting thing about the Kindle
  20. Unhurried hearts harlem shakes
  21. Connected kids
  22. You must be out of your mind the magnetic
  23. NYT lays out the MA senate race
  24. Safe european home the clash back from a mini
  25. Little things to make email better
  26. The opposite of open
  27. We went dog sledding yesterday the dogs were
  28. My boys taken by trees great cover of animal
  29. Love vigilantes iron wine original by new
  30. How to join a startup?
  31. Is there nothing we could do badly drawn boy
  32. Mean red spider spoon new album comes out next
  33. Rescue echo and the bunnymen
  34. A line in the dirt eels jan 19th cant come
  35. A little color behind my ‘crazy mode’ comment
  36. Mokoyfman the streets has it come to this
  37. Let my love open the door rilo kiley original 2
  38. Together the raconteurs
  39. What was your favorite band growing up that was not the Rolling Stones or the Clash?
  40. But rubin is a product fanatic in the same way
  41. Some bad dream darling last year i fell hard
  42. Hello brooklyn jay z marvin gaye feat lil
  43. Can a startup build the next great CE device?
  44. Snow day matt pond pa
  45. Thinking about the alleged Apple Tablet
  46. Joining the dots arctic monkeys new song live
  47. I cant wait
  48. James favorite car ever via bsabet
  49. Anything that is useful to both dissidents in iran
  50. The trouble with TV advertising
  51. The new year death cab for cutie acoustic

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