events

April 16, '10

Presented the H.K. Douglas Cotton Memorial Lecture at Gilman School, Baltimore, MD.

February 10, '10

Speaking at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader's Seminar Series.

November 3, '09

Speaking on the Enabling Innovation panel at SAP in Palo Alto.

September 3, '09

Presenting at DartBoston's Pokin' Holes at Vintage Lounge in Boston.

May 13, '09

Speaking at the SDForum Tech Titans of Tomorrow: Teens Plugged In conference at Hewlett Packard.

April 25, '09

Speaking at the I Don't Know to CEO conference at Stanford.

April 7, '09

Speaking at the ASES Summit at Stanford on the Young Entrepreneurs panel.

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Nov 18
"Of course a great way to show you can build stuff is to build a prototype of the product you are raising money for.  This is why so many VCs tell entrepreneurs to “come back when you have a demo.”  They aren’t wondering whether your product can be built – they are wondering whether you can build it."
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Oct 30
hiten:

giantrobotlasers:

ericfriedman:mikehudack:kevintwohy:
I’ve had these pictures stuck in my head for the last few weeks.  The left is a sketch Jack Dorsey made of his concept for Twitter back in 2006, and the right (if you don’t remember) is what Facebook looked like in 2005 when it was essentially a sloppy version of Friendster for students of a particular Ivy League college.  When something hits such immense scale, it can be difficult to remember that it once existed as  such a fleetingly simple, unmitigated idea.  Some of the sharpest people the industry could muster (along with hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars) have been bought to bear to cultivate these technologies into their present forms.  But those are effects, not causes.
Think about that the next time you sketch something on the back of an envelope.

hiten:

giantrobotlasers:

ericfriedman:mikehudack:kevintwohy:

I’ve had these pictures stuck in my head for the last few weeks.  The left is a sketch Jack Dorsey made of his concept for Twitter back in 2006, and the right (if you don’t remember) is what Facebook looked like in 2005 when it was essentially a sloppy version of Friendster for students of a particular Ivy League college.  When something hits such immense scale, it can be difficult to remember that it once existed as  such a fleetingly simple, unmitigated idea.  Some of the sharpest people the industry could muster (along with hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars) have been bought to bear to cultivate these technologies into their present forms.  But those are effects, not causes.

Think about that the next time you sketch something on the back of an envelope.

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Oct 22
View of San Francisco from the Bay Bridge. Was on the way back from Napa this past weekend. (No Photoshopping… this is straight from the camera!)

View of San Francisco from the Bay Bridge. Was on the way back from Napa this past weekend. (No Photoshopping… this is straight from the camera!)

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Oct 06

Increo Solutions acquired by Box.net

I’m very excited to announce that Increo has been acquired by Box.net!

In talking with the Box.net team, we realized that they shared our vision for the future of documents on the Internet and, with their solid product offerings and rapidly growing userbase, were well-primed to take a leadership role in the online collaboration space.

We could not be happier to bring our technology to Box.net and can not wait to deliver easy document previewing, annotation, and embedding to Box’s customers.

TechCrunch is covering the acquisition here:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/box-net-acquires-increo-solutions-to-expand-document-collaboration-and-sharing/

“I spoke to Box.net CEO Aaron Levie briefly about the acquisition. He says the key reason they acquired Increo is to integrate the collaboration and annotation functionality from Backboard. Increo’s underlying technology for displaying documents on websites is also attractive to Box.net.”

And Increo’s official statement on the acquisition is here:

http://blog.increosolutions.com/2009/10/increo-solutions-acquired-by-boxnet/

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Sep 28
"People sometimes think things like twitter just take off overnight. Nope. It took them a few years to get real traction. Keep at it if you are still in year 1 or 2 of your business. Give your business at least 3 years."
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Sep 14

Book Titles, If They Were Written Today

yourmonkeycalled:

Then: The Gospel of Matthew

Now:  40 Days and a Mule: How One Man Quit His Job and Became the Boss

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Sep 12
"Remember that every company was once a startup. Two people and an idea. Microsoft started when Bill Gates and Paul Allen were students. Google started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were students. Apple started with just Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak… when they were both students, but hardly in the traditional sense."
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Sep 11
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Sep 02

Installing PHP 5.2.10 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Apple deserves serious props for bringing the installed version of PHP up to 5.3 on Snow Leopard, but some projects *cough CakePHP* can’t yet handle the goodness.

Sure, you could virtualize Ubuntu running whatever setup you desired, but if you already had a local setup on Leopard, it might make more sense to downgrade to PHP 5.2 and get back to work.

There’s a lot of confusion and little documentation online about how this is done, so here is the easiest way to make it happen:

  1. Install the “Snow Leopard” version of MacPorts from: http://www.macports.org/install.php
  2. In Terminal, run:
    > sudo port -v selfupdate
    > sudo port -f uninstall installed
    > sudo port install php52 +mysql5 +sqlite
    > sudo cp /opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini-dist /opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini
  3. Open /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and change line 114 from:
    LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
    to:
    LoadModule php5_module        /opt/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
  4. Open /opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini and change line 761 from:
    mysql.default_socket =
    to:
    mysql.default_socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock
  5. Use the Sharing pane of System Preferences to stop and start Web Sharing

Purists will argue that you now have lots of extra software installed on your system, which is true, but let’s be real: these 5 steps are the fastest way to get back to being productive.

Update (March 30, 2010): If you are seeing weird errors with curl and SSL/https connections, it’s because the version of libcurl that this install is NOT compatible. Here’s how to fix it:

> sudo mv /opt/local/lib/libcurl.4.dylib /opt/local/lib/libcurl.4.dylib.old
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib /opt/local/lib/libcurl.4.dylib

> sudo mv /opt/local/lib/libcurl.dylib /opt/local/lib/libcurl.dylib.old
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.dylib /opt/local/lib/libcurl.dylib

Enjoy!

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Check out the pre-show for our presentation at Pokin’ Holes in Boston this Thursday, September 3.

The show will be filmed live at 7pm at Vintage Lounge in the financial district - don’t be late!

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about jeff

Jeff Seibert

Jeff Seibert co-founded Increo Solutions, Inc. in 2007 and served as its President and COO until its acquisition by Box.net, Inc. in August of 2009. He currently works for Box as a Software Engineer where he manages the integration of Increo's document preview and annotation technologies into the company's online document management platform.

Seibert gained experience at Apple, Inc. in both marketing and engineering capacities and served as Co-Coordinator of Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.

Seibert discovered his passion for entrepreneurship at a young age, founding Arios Software and developing and selling Macintosh desktop software during high school at Gilman in Baltimore, MD. Outside of work, he tries to spend as much time away from the computer as possible, whether it be surfing, snowboarding, or playing tennis.

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