Jackson Fish Market
Posted on January 8, 2009 by hillel on Companies We Admire

A Visit to American Apparel

Kevin Meyer posted a nice little trip report on his visit to American Apparel on the Venture Hacks blog. Not sure there’s much I can add to the writeup. It’s inspiring. I know we’re a tiny fraction of a fraction but i believe we have some of this DNA. From the piece: “Brief background on […]

Posted on October 24, 2008 by hillel on Companies We Admire

Annual Report

Stardock is an interesting company. I had always known them as a publisher of tools for customizing and skinning the Windows UX. But they also have a software distribution tool and they’re publishing some very well-received games as well. They’re a private company and as such have no requirement to “report” much of anything. However, […]

Posted on October 2, 2008 by hillel on Companies We Admire

SignalApps

Super interesting development. This may have been happening for awhile and I hadn’t noticed, but I just saw that a company called SignalApps is marketing Mac-based client code applets that talk to 37 Signals apps. The 37 Signals guys have had an API for awhile so this is not surprising. But if someone could make […]