Eric Paley Contributor Eric Paley is a managing partner at Founder Collective . More posts by this contributor Confidence: The currency of acceleration When venture capital becomes vanity capital Ther
I am always intrigued by highly engaged internet communities that live on platforms that are not well kept. What’s most enlightening about these specific communities is their authenticity. I’ve notice
Uber U.K. Image Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat I am a Uber power user, meaning I use Uber as my primary means of transport. In the morning I use UberPool to get from home to office and in the eveni
The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of my book Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope. We live in an interesting time in that, materially, things are arguably better than they have eve
In February 1991, the very month that Walmart overtook the most iconic American retailer in sales , Sears spokesman Jerry Buldak told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the companies couldn’t really be co
Illustration by Pablo Lobato The modern Presidential campaign may be the world’s most sophisticated pop-up operation, a billion-dollar multilayered organization that, if it hopes to succeed, must be a
The Confessions Confessions of an ex-Facebook trending news curator: ‘They are just going to get rid of the product altogether’ August 30, 2016 • 6 min read • By Digiday Shutterstock Barely two days a
Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties. It is the end of an era. The staff will move to new jobs on other p
In most jobs and most industries, if you do something that doesn't work out, that's a bad thing, and you might get fired. If you write a cover story for a newspaper that turns out to be untrue, you ha
Inside the Failing Mission to Tame Donald Trump’s Tongue Donald J. Trump at a rally in Altoona, Pa., on Friday. Dismissing accounts that Mr. Trump was downcast, a spokesman pointed to the crowds the n
But it took a weekend in Oakland to show me that. Published in Equal Future · 10 min read · Jul 31, 2016 -- You may have heard recently that there’s a problem with racism on Airbnb. Screenshots of rac
If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week, take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. Ho
Published in Foursquare · 6 min read · Aug 4, 2016 -- At Foursquare, our data scientists are often called upon to analyze real world trends; we use Big Data to determine how commercial fortunes are ri
Video has generally been available — and is often shared — on Pinterest, but it hasn’t quite received the same treatment that the company’s traditional content has seen. Over the next few months, howe
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after privacy researchers warned that it had the
Chris Christie Lost Out on the Job He Wanted. And His Bad Year Got Worse. Gov. Chris Christie at an event this month for Donald J. Trump, whom he endorsed after ending his own presidential campaign. C
Dear 17-year-old self, When your Laker dream comes true tomorrow, you need to figure out a way to invest in the future of your family and friends. This sounds simple, and you may think it’s a no-brain
As is sadly the case with most political stories these days, whether or not you care about the so-called “DNC leak” probably depends on which candidate you supported in the primaries. If you supported
The smartphone platform wars are pretty much over, and Apple and Google won. But it's interesting, in passing, to note the final score, and think about what it means. Globally, something around 5bn pe
How one designer got hooked to a TV show in 52 seconds Like most of us at Nelson Cash , you’ve probably heard about Netflix’s latest cult show Stranger Things from your best friend or work buddy. And
Over the past few years , there has been a meaningful trend in the design community towards user-centered design. As with any methodology, it’s valuable to a point. User-centered design is great for d
Blackstone, the giant Wall Street private equity firm, will hold an invitation-only reception before the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The event, at the swanky Bar
President Obama during his speech Wednesday night at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia. Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker It was about 8:40 P.M. last night when
from the book “ Hell Yeah or No ”: Disconnect 2016-07-27 All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected. No internet.No TV.No phon
Over the last year or so in the US, a lot of the plastic credit cards we carry around every day have been replaced by new one with chips embedded in them. The chips are supposed to make your credit an
Tonight, Donald J. Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president of the United States. And I am, for the first time since I began covering American politics, genuinely afraid. Donald
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force. Early Friday morning, Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot with an explosive device o
I love Twitter . 45,000 Tweets. 263,000 Likes (even though they’ll always be Favs to me). Their commitment to free speech has always been clear ( thank you amac! ). But they’re, by many accounts, losi
I am a Black woman. Not only that, I am a Black woman working in tech, one of the most homogeneous industries ever birthed . As a woman in tech, I account for 30% of the tech workforce . As a Black pe
Published in The Medium Blog · 5 min read · Mar 4, 2016 -- Medium aspires to empower individual voices and avoid the bureaucracy that often accompanies traditional organizational structures. As a resu
Stephanie, a 24-year-old living in New York City, went over to a friend’s apartment one recent night for a laid-back night of watching Master of Non e on Netflix. When she got there, the friend offere
One night in January 2015, two Stanford University graduate students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting his body on top of an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster. This March
Good Obscurity vs. Bad Obscurity Camouflage OPSEC An SSH Example Reducing Impact or Probability Summary Many of us are familiar with a concept know as Security by Obscurity . The term has negative con
DealBook One Unspoken Reason Behind the Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal LinkedIn’s Manhattan newsroom. Some investors, including Warren Buffett, are critical of excluding stock-based compensation from earning
State of the Art Can Apple Think Outside the Device? Credit... Stuart Goldenberg More than any other company in tech, Apple prizes physical objects — expensive, perfectly designed, self-contained nugg
The fog still chills the morning air and the cable cars still climb halfway to the stars, yet on the ground, the city by the bay has changed immeasurably since Tony Bennett left his heart here. Silico
It was only 11 months ago that I wrote an Article entitled Nvidia In the Valley ; the occasion was yet another plummet in their stock price: To say that the company has turned things around is, needle
U.S. companies spend millions annually on diversity programs and policies. Mission statements and recruitment materials touting companies’ commitment to diversity are ubiquitous. And many managers are
Vox Media Tries Something Old on Something New Jim Bankoff, chief executive of Vox Media, in the Washington office. The company plans a media brand devoted to digital technology and delivered primaril
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