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Notation 4 min read· Oct 27, 2015 -- If you’re someone that’s spent time working with startups, you’re used to hearing “No” by now. You’ve also probably had to say it a few times too. Chris Dixon had a great line a few years back that we’ve always liked: If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily…

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Published in Both Sides of the Table · 9 min read · Oct 19, 2015 -- There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that un

As expected, Tim Cook today took the stage at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference for an interview. During his time on stage, Cook discussed a variety of topics, ranging from iPhone to Apple Watch and to Apple Music. The main points are below: New Apple TV available next Monday, Oct. 26,…

Sophie Paxton 5 min read· Oct 6, 2015 -- My previous short article about gratuitous animation really struck a chord with people. The response has been phenomenal and it’s been awesome reading others’ frustrations with overly animated UIs. To be clear, I’m not anti motion design for UIs. Far from it.…

Quite a few companies are finding themselves in a situation roughly as follows: they have raised a lot of money at high valuations on a fast growth story, have real customers and the beginning of reve

Letter from Silicon Valley The Network Man October 5, 2015 Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn, has a premise about how the economic world will work from now on.Illustration by Stanley Chow Early on a Monday evening in June, Reid Hoffman, the founder and executive chairman of the business-oriented…

Akinori Machino 5 min read· Sep 17, 2015 -- iOS 9 is now publicly released. It’s a subtle change but the system fonts of iOS 9 are now changed to the Apple’s new San Francisco fonts, replacing the previous Helvetica Neue. Press enter or click to view image in full size Press enter or click to view…

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Dear Neu Venture Capital investor, Our frequent informal communications have generally taken the form of late night discussions where you vent your darkest fears about us losing all of your money and in return we rant like The Joker about burning the world down. Because these chats have covered so…

In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, host Soledad O’Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer, talking to Dev Null, a full-scale human avatar with frosted fuchsia tips and a soul patch. Motion-captured from the show’s second host backstage, he swivels from side to…

Usually, Jaime Prater felt excited on the first day of school. He’d get up early, put on the outfit he’d laid out the night before — he liked bow ties and sweater-vests — and hurry down the hall with the other kids in his building. But this morning in September 1989 felt different. This morning he…

See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. The late 1970s were some of the darkest, bleakest years in New York’s history. So why can’t we stop talking about them? The photographs in this story are by the late Peter Hujar (1934-87), one of the key figures in New…

Companies like Apple say they are protecting their customers’ information by resisting government demands for access to text messages. A standoff has grown between the sides as the companies have embraced tougher encryption. WASHINGTON — In an investigation involving guns and drugs, the Justice…

Culture Desk August 24, 2015 “I think it's kind of beautiful and hilarious to see people eating their organic kale and quinoa salads while gazing across the opaque, fetid water,” Adrian Tomine says of his cover for this week’s issue, “Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn.” “It’s strange to see the recent…

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Update: Want to support healthy habits within your own team? Check out “Leading your team to better results” on the Asana blog. — — — Last week, I spoke to an ambitious group of high school students at SPARC in Berkeley. Several of them asked me about things I wish I had done or learned earlier in…

There is a Slack bot for everything. Oskar tracks how happy your coworkers are. Shoulda Coulda shows you how many times everyone says "should." Huskybot is "for people who need Siberian huskies, now." Since Slack launched two years ago, it’s been the darling app, the hot new thing for intraoffice…

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On January 27, 1991, at a record-release party for the rap duo Bytches With Problems in Hollywood, producer/rapper/then-N.W.A. member Dr. Dre brutally attacked Dee Barnes , the host of a well-known Fo

Back when I started out as an equity analyst, in the days when mobile operators were sexy disruptive growth companies, my boss was very fond of comparing the number of customers per employee at fixed and mobile networks. People from fixed networks used to complain about this comparison, saying that…

Target, the second largest general merchandise retailer in the U.S., announced this morning that it will start testing beacon technology in 50 of its stores nationwide. With beacon technology, the com

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Notation 5 min read· May 20, 2015 -- This is the first part of a two part series highlighting the reasons one might raise (or invest in) a pre-seed round. This first part is meant for founders and the second part for investors. What is a pre-seed financing? It means a lot of things to different…

Why we sometimes use bookmarklets on the design team at Medium Marcin Wichary 6 min read· Nov 3, 2014 -- In my day-to-day design work, I use many different tools. Some of the most common include: conversations with other designersearly sketches on whiteboards or in notebookshigh fidelity mock-ups in…

With billions of people buying a device every two years, on average, the phone business dwarfs the PC business, which has an install base of 1.5-1.6bn devices replaced every 4-5 years. PC sales are a bit over 300m units a year where phone sales are now close to 2bn, of which well over half, and…

Signaling what it hopes will mark the start of a new phase of growth, Evernote, the company behind the popular cloud-based productivity app of the same name, announced today that Phil Libin will step

Academic publishing is a game at many levels. And usually, it is the ugly parts which come into media focus. Last year, Vox featured a dramatic piece on some scientific publishing scam, purported by the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, where a paper titled: “Get me Off Your…

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Both Apple and Google this year revealed information about the amount of money they have paid out to developers (ie. disbursements to developers, minus the 30% platform fee each company charges) in 2014 that supports the notion of mobile as a winner-takes-all ecosystem, with massively skewed returns…