I figured it was about time for a followup on my systemd post. I’ve been meaning to do it for a while but time hasn’t allowed. The end of Linux Some people wrongly characterized this as some sort of h
jason wright Dec 12, 2011 Would you be able to add time to each stage? Typically how long does each stage last in companies you have invested in please? fredwilson Dec 12, 2011 too long!but seriously, it takes as long as it takes. there is no easy rule for time. jason wright Dec 12, 2011 At the time…
Since I still receive a few emails every week asking me if Launcher is ever coming back to the App Store, I figured it would make sense to post a public update now that I finally have a pretty solid answer on it. The short answer is: No. It doesn’t appear that Launcher or anything even close to it…
We all remember Clippy, right? He of the friendly, persistent “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” Clippy (real name: Clippit) was an innovation for Microsoft; the idea that a piece of software could predict what you were working on based on what you typed was startlingly…
Software only becomes valuable when you ship it to customers. Before then it’s just a costly accumulation of hard work and assumptions. Shipping unlocks a feedback loop that confirms or challenges those assumptions. It makes new things possible for your customers, and gives you the opportunity to…
The gist: We all eventually suffer from “lazy expert syndrome.” The best way to snap out of it and grow is to mentor someone new to your field. It was the “roaring twenties” in America, and business was good. Even for criminals. Al Capone had slowly built himself an empire making upwards of $100M…
Published in Obvious Ventures · 2 min read · Dec 1, 2014 -- Today marks the official launch of Obvious Ventures, the third chapter in the history of ‘Obvious.’ In order to tell you where we’re going,
Governments should sack plans to auction off old television frequencies to the highest bidder and instead use the bandwidth for free super-frequency WiFi if they want to boost the economy, scientists
Introducing the Bittersweet Spot Steven Levy 6 min read· Dec 3, 2014 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size I got an iPhone 6 Plus to test just before Apple put it on sale in September. Two days later I was having brunch in one of those densely packed New York City restaurants. I noticed…
An elderly man crouches on a rug in a house in west Baltimore. He’s alone, and wearing shalwar kameez, so from the back I assume he’s praying. In fact he’s eating his dinner. When he sees me come through the front door, he quickly hurries to his bedroom. He’s Syed Rahman, Adnan Syed’s father. “He…
Colleen, an associate director at a large pharmaceutical company, daydreamed about getting married on a beach. By the time she began planning her own ceremony in 2012, she’d been to her fair share of
How Slack built a well loved product going against Peter Thiel and app fashion Dion Almaer 4 min read· Dec 5, 2014 -- I enjoy watching companies do fantastically well against the grain. It is the opposite of schadenfreude, and although the Germans may not have a word for it the budhists have the…
For many coming to New York City, the available entry is the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT). However, if a traveler seeks the charm of a grand entrance, they will be greatly disappointed. The PABT is considered, colloquially, to be a hall of unfathomable nightmares. As one Yelp! reviewer put it:…
This was originally written on December 2, 2014 and published on Hatch, our internal version of Medium. Read more posts published on Hatch at Inside Medium. I just finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and it stirred up all my code deletion happy feelings. If you haven’t read that…
Wildcard launched our first product a few weeks ago - a card-based mobile browser. It’s a new way of browsing the internet on your smart phone, and it’s just the beginning. A group of incredibly talented people came together, designed and built the app over the past 12 months. I want to share a few…
Andrew Courter 3 min read· Dec 4, 2014 -- With Highly, our tender young product for sharing anything you read online, we replace hyperlinks with something we think is better — highlights. Simply highlight to share the words and ideas you find important. We think it’s a big deal. Would-be investors…
In one of my first reviews with Mark at Facebook, I got into a constructive but passionate debate with Sheryl Sandberg. It was a quintessential corporate dilemma where the best decision for the product may not be the best decision for the company. At the time, I just couldn’t understand her…
Barry Nolan Dec 2, 2014 This Steve Jobs quote on problem solving jumps to mind. I’ve been grinding for three years. I’m acutely aware that there’s a thin line between obsession and delusion. Twain Twain Dec 2, 2014 THIS — except inverted and I’m a grinder. I like to see things through, even when no…
Yandex Gives Its Browser A Minimalist Makeover Natasha Lomas 2:44 AM PST · November 28, 2014 Russian tech giant Yandex has launched a refreshed version of its Chromium-based browser that’s been designed to make the browser itself feel less visible to web users. Where it is visible, such as the URL…
"Invalid Username or Password": a useless security measure Login attempts fail because computer users can't remember their email or didn't input the right password. Most websites on the Internet won't tell you which one is actually incorrect. Amazon: Shoprunner: Hacker News: If you tell an attacker…
Maria Konnikova November 26, 2014 Photograph by Bill Hinton/Getty Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale and the director of the school’s Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders, has been treating addiction for more than two decades. Early in his career, he, like most others…
My dad used to say, “Slow down, son. You’ll get the job done faster.” I’ve worked in many high-tech startup companies in the San Francisco Bay area. I am now 52, and I program slowly and thoughtfully. I’m kind of like a designer who writes code; this may become apparent as you read on :) Programming…
Part I | Part II | Part III When you examine the 19th century pattern of transformation of an entrepreneurial class into a labor class, which we covered in Part I, the conclusion is obvious: a labor class emerges when privileged knowledge is commoditized and institutionalized in ways that make it…
Part I | Part II | Part III For the last few months, I've been cautiously testing a radical-sounding hypothesis on smart people: entrepreneurs are the new labor. Or to put it in a more useful way, the balance of power between investors and entrepreneurs that marks the early, frontier days of a major…
Danielle Morrill 7 min read· Sep 28, 2014 -- A self-examination guide for Seed and Series A startups While Bill Gurley’s comments about burn rates (tl;dr he’s concerned they are getting dangerously high) are geared toward later stage startups, the article has kicked off conversations about…
We all know that teen-parent relations can be a tricky business. Now neuroscientists from several leading US universities think they’ve found some new brain evidence that helps explain why. The group from the Universities of Pittsburgh, California-Berkeley and Harvard, and led by Kyung Hwa Lee,…
Tyler Moody 4 min read· Nov 24, 2014 -- Image from: ThisAmericanLife.org I’m bullish when it comes to the business of podcasting. I’m not alone, as evidenced by articles explaining why podcasting is surging, like this one from New York Magazine and this one from The Washington Post and this one from…
United States | Drug addiction An old sickness has returned to haunt a new generation Nov 20th 2014|DENVER|7 min read PICTURE a heroin addict. “A bum sitting under a bridge with a needle in his arm, robbing houses to feed his addiction,” is what many people might imagine, believes Cynthia Scudo.…
DocuSign just launched “The New Experience” and it copies the HelloSign user experience. We (HelloSign) implemented the page above (left) on April 14, 2013. DocuSign implemented the above page (ri
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