raif’s random rants…

thanks to seth godin, who brought this site to our attention last week. it’s been my new 2nd favorite time killer after the lost season 5 dvd set i got for xmas.
it’s called the vintage ad browser (www.vintageadbrowser.com) and it does what it says. you can search for and browse through over 100,000 vintage ads. [...]

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yikes.
starting is easy. finishing is hard. to keep going is harder.
that’s how i feel of this small piece of web real estate called raif.com. hard to believe i haven’t done a single post since august.
besides launching carsala.com, hiring, moving, holidays and many other lame excuses, what’s really happened is called twitter.
twitter has officially replaced my [...]

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sometimes starting a company is like playing house… especially when you’re setting up your office.
both my co-founder tyler and i have always felt strongly that the environment we set up now will play a significant role in shaping the culture and the values of the company we’re building at carsala. we are also both pretty [...]

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just yesterday, as I was trying to snap out of my usual 3pm crash down with a double espresso, I was thinking how great afternoon naps are. I even thought how great it could be to constitute a mandatory siesta at carsala… it would be a tough sell in a north american work environment and [...]

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hard to believe that it’s been over 3 months since i’ve posted on my blog.
it’s a shame. but i’ll make an attempt at an excuse:
in the last three months, along with my co-founder Tyler Elliston, we’ve been ridiculously busy founding and raising seed funding for carsala – an innovative service that will revolutionize how people [...]

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as a canadian, I’ve always been led to believe that we paid a lot more in income taxes than our counter parts in the US.
as I near my graduation and face the decision of staying in california vs going back to toronto, I decided that I should dig into this and see what the gap [...]

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