May 2013
19 posts
“I see the value of writing clearly and concisely becoming an increasingly...”
– BRYCE DOT VC: Writing As a Competitive Advantage
Never underestimate the power of the pen, or as is the case in our digital world, the keyboard…
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If you just sold your company for $1.1 billion,...
If you are getting ready for the biggest exit of your life, reblog this. Reblog this, forever.
Strong Opinions @marksbirch: What Startups Are... →
marksbirch:
Here is a collection of uplifting and heartwarming words of encouragement from the most sage voices in the tech startup world as you begin your own entrepreneurial journey.
Throwing yourself off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. - Reif Hoffman
Being an entrepreneur is…
All product design and all customer experience are...
When you meet someone and something about them jars you, that’s the same emotional experience a customer has when they go to your app and they get lost. People look for simplicity in their experiences.
Never design an experience to be more complicated than it needs to be.
Product design and customer experience are always one and the same thing. And they always shall be.
Just as you can...
Foursquare Picks Up Where Daily Deals Sites Fall...
I think in the space of opportunity, Foursquare has a very big edge in being a consumer’s weapon of choice in finding daily deals. It can’t be that daily deals find success in being just the offer. The shopping process is exactly that, a process. That requires an app that has a base, and an operation. At the end of the day, daily deals are just coupons. Nobody is loyal to coupons. They...
April 2013
30 posts
Switch to the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone --... →
Don’t fight. See why now’s the time to switch to the Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 920: Engadget’s Readers Choice Smartphone of the Year. Make the switch: http:/…
John Borthwick -- Startups Can Be Parts of a...
An engine for growth, “a grassroots AOL.” Betaworks is the entire puzzle.
Live Interview with Yammer CEO David Sacks Starts...
Tune in here.
: Windows AzureConf – A Workshop for Start-ups in... →
incubes:
When: Monday April 29, 2013 from 9:00am to 12:00pm
Where: MaRS Centre – Room CR3 (101 College Street, Toronto)
How to Register: Register Here (It’s a free event and breakfast will be provided between 8:00am-9:00am)
Learn More: Get Your Cloud On With Windows Azure
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Are There Too Many Seed Deals?
My comment at PandoDaily which is not being published, I think because technical issues. ” Sarah Lacy, I am confused by aspects of this argument, too. If it’s cheaper to launch a company to get to customer discovery and the gate where VC Series A would start, how does this not benefit VCs. Basically, someone else is willing to catch the risk of the moments leading up to traction...
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Semil Shah is Right, but the Privacy and Data...
Semil Shah wrote another great blog post for Tech Crunch, this time about privacy vs. transparency.
there are two things I extract from this very good, very compelling blog post:
1. The “trend” of transparency is less a trend and more of a fundamental principle of democracy or open systems. So, to say it is a trend is to overlook how previous institutions worked for or worked...
“SF cabs were atrocious because there are too few medallions. (Turns out the...”
– Or how about providing public mass transportation that is worthy of a city like San Francisco, which has about the most atrocious and embarrassing system in the US and perhaps the world? Having more cars on the road is not the answer… (via marksbirch)
I’m glad you are saying this. I have...
“Startups function like a small army; we disrupt, annoy and exploit the...”
– Jerry Reynolds, founder of Plandree, in a recent thread about how startups and enterprises are the same, but different.
March 2013
77 posts
