Anne Libby Nov 11, 2014 I would guess that we still have legislators who have never (personally) opened an email account. JimHirshfield Nov 11, 2014 That’s the speed of gov’t. Anne Libby Nov 11, 2014 And to be clear (and to @andyswan:disqus ‘s point elsewhere) I don’t think that our legislators are…

Perhaps unusually for a networked world, Barack Obama’s statement supporting net neutrality will have little immediate effect outside the United States. The debate concerns the way the internet is delivered to homes and offices: proponents of net neutrality argue that the fee internet users pay to…

Predictably, television was one of the first topics Tim Cook was asked about at yesterday’s interview at AllThingsD. This followed the rumors of Yahoo acquiring Hulu, and Microsoft’s entertainment-centric Xbox One launch last week. It’s all about TV and the imminent age of cord-cutting. On this the…

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Few markers of success are as universally agreed upon as getting your likeness plastered on the side of a New York City bus. There’s something about seeing a jumbo version of yourself looking down on the average-sized humans below that signifies I’ve finally made it. “Yeah...that shit cray,” Katja…

Update: Appropriately, you can now listen to an audio version of this essay. Thank you Kristin Myers for the dramatic reading: A podcast network focused on narrative storytelling. Journalism. This is not a “typical” investment for betaworks, nor for many other venture capital investors in consumer…

Image Credit: Foursquare It’s been two months since Foursquare relaunched , and things aren’t looking good. App usage and downloads are down. Way down. But Web traffic is up. Maybe. We’re not sold on

WIRED: Could these awesome glowing roads be the highways of the future? http://t.co/s17hWCNmPh http://t.co/UstyfLZTLq

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Uncategorized Several weeks ago we started thinking about how to best approach calculating MRR for businesses who sell subscription plans in different currencies. MRR, or Monthly Recurring Revenue, is perhaps the single most important metric a subscription business will need to calculate. To…

Published in Both Sides of the Table · 5 min read · Nov 9, 2014 -- We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowds

State of the Art Twenty years ago last month, a team of well-meaning designers, coders and magazine publishers inadvertently unleashed on an unsuspecting world one of the most misguided and destructive technologies of the Internet age: the web banner ad. If that is an exaggeration, it is only a…

Three years ago, Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in the plum role of general partner. Yet one senses the longtime operator and entrepreneur — whose many past roles include as Twitter’s VP of Engineering; as SVP at Palm; and as cofounder of the data virtualization startup…

Last month, Brad Feld published a very heartfelt blog post on depression in startups called Founder Suicides. If you hav…

Booze-free clubbing is Sweden’s latest party craze. STOCKHOLM, Sweden– Hundreds of dancers have invaded the floor. The more self-conscious among them cradle drinks and stand pushed up against the walls of the crammed, clammy club. Most, though, have submitted to the beats blasting out of the…

Last week i decided to replace my RSS reader from Feedly to InoReader. Both are a solid solution for feed consumption with advanced features that replaced what used to be Google Reader. After subscribing to Feedly Pro for over an year, the main reason for a change was not being able to edit my tags,…

Evernote Rolls Out Its New “Work Chat” Feature Sarah Perez 11:25 AM PDT · October 31, 2014 Evernote has rolled out a new “Work Chat” feature to its web and mobile applications which allows users of its online note-taking and collaboration software to discuss ideas and projects directly in the…

What’s wrong with Angular 1 Daniel Steigerwald 3 min read· Oct 6, 2014 -- Update: It’s long time I wrote this article and now I would write it differently. Programming is hard and we all do mistakes. The hard thing for me is to express disagreement in friendly and helpful tone. App logic and…

Veronica de Souza: What It’s Like As a Bartender to Watch Your Awkward Tinder Date http://t.co/86vLUNem2M

[Spoilers ahead for Desert Golfing.] So, how do I play this? There are no instructions. Press enter or click to view image in full size Ah, I just swipe to set the angle and strength. Pretty simple. Hm. The sand has a lot of friction. I’m learning some tricks, like “putting” by aiming slightly into…

This is a rant. If you are looking for genuine insight on how things went wrong this week in America’s unmanned and under-funded space efforts, there are a lot better places to look. A short inventory of a bad week: The Antares rocket was deliberately destroyed by NASA safety officers on Tuesday…

Andy Weissman: "Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis" - good essay by @DannyCrichton http://t.co/nukT57fWIg

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David Barnard: “Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is losing.” http://t.co/B3lTuABGO8

Medium: “To Uber Or Not To Uber, Part Two” —@piltdownlad https://t.co/H19iT2pmqp

Leah Culver: The best advice I've heard lately, from a teenager: https://t.co/JREgrFQv4z

Pipino also started scaling the front of his family’s apartment building so as to avoid the haunted stairwell. He learned the delicate art of ascending decrepit facades with his fingertips, developing an instinctive sense for which bricks crumble and which would hold. By the time he was fifteen, he…

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Verizon’s gonna be mad FCC reportedly close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers “Hybrid” approach wouldn’t prevent all Internet fast lane deals. Jon Brodkin – Oct 30, 2014 11:45 pm | 258 FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Credit: NCTA FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Credit: NCTA Story text Size Width * Links…

To be sure, this was a very buzzy deal in Silicon Valley. For every venture capitalist blown away by the company’s rapid growth — it already is used by 30,000 teams to send over 200 million monthly messages — there seems to be another that wonders if the accelerated fundraising masks a lack of…

Richard Kim 2 min read· Sep 21, 2014 -- What’s the best way to alert your user? UIAlertView The standard alert, simple, but breaks the user’s momentum link: lots of tutorials online, here’s one Good: Giving instructions: user tries to access location, but location permission is not on. Bad:…

Jonathan Abrams: “On the right you have the content aggregators... They are worth by far the most of anyone in this discussion” http://t.co/d3A1aJ8qQ4