Ben Horowitz Download Photo Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Ha

I was in the bathroom this morning catching up on all the blogs (via Feedly) that I hadn't read this week since my head was in a bunch of other things. I came across one from Nic Brisbourne (Forward Ventures) titled I'm a stock picker. I wish he…

Sometimes at Panic we build internal stuff that never sees the light of the outside world. This is one of those projects: an automatic in/out tracker for the Panic Team. OK, sure, there’s not that man

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Scaling growth is hard – there’s only a few ways to do it When you study the most successful mobile/web products, you start to see a pattern on how they grow. Turns out, there’s not too many ways to r

Yancey Strickler is chief executive and co-founder of Kickstarter. The world was introduced to Kickstarter when our Web site went live in 2009. But the idea had been around much longer: Company co-founder Perry Chen came up with it in 2001. The eight intervening years were spent doggedly trying to…

“How could she do something like this to me?” said a voice in my head. All the time. Everyday. Back in 2011, when everything had gradients, iOS icons made sense, and people used deodorants, I was stuck in middle of a pretty bad depression due to my divorce. Thankfully, I think I was smart enough…

I have seen the future of desktop computing, and it is very small. Ironically, it is also very portable. Imagine a Macintosh in a smartphone form factor. Pull it out of your pocket, and it works like

Founded by Dropbox and MIT alums, a new startup called Inbox is launching out of stealth today, hoping to power the next generation of email applications. Similar to the newly launched Gmail API, Inbo

A Lyft car in San Francisco. Lyft recruits regular people who wish to make extra money by offering rides in their own cars. Jeff Chiu/Associated Press A pink mustache grows in Brooklyn. Hundreds of th

The San Francisco fog creeps over the city. Nick Bilton/The New York Times Living in San Francisco is a predictable affair. Each day you awake to layers of fog, the temperature is always the same, and

Published in Both Sides of the Table · 5 min read · Jun 30, 2014 -- By now almost everybody knows that Marc Andreessen has taken Twitter by storm. By Tweetstorm, that is. Marc seems to single handedly

Maybe it’s the foolish amounts of venture capital swirling around Silicon Valley, but it often seems as though we are all playing a game in which the contestants have to determine what is a parody and

Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC

I got a resume from someone a few days ago who among other accomplishments mentioned they were a top commenter on ProductHunt. Pretty cool. And then when I saw a post on HN about ProductHunt vs. TechC

You’re about to publish that blog post but really want more people to engage — read, share, and respond to it. What do you do? Naturally, turn it into a catchy list of items perfectly packaged for cli

In reading the recent Piper Jaffray Internet Advertising report, I was struck by what the report lists as trend number three in the "Media World Order:" Indeed, I think the implications of this concep

Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jul 2, 2014 -- Trench notes By Craig Mod Illustration by Luis Mendo How are apps made? Painfully with deliberation or effortlessly without thought. Blind inspir

1 / 7 Last Saturday, a few blocks north of Times Square, a nineteen-year-old named Virgilia Reyes was wearing a red Elmo costume, with a drawstring bag slung across her back and an Android phone in he

Avoiding innovator’s dilemma I realize it’s impossible to say in a few hundred words what people much smarter than me have written about in a series of books, but I’ve been thinking again about a topi

George Takei (Facebook) Former Star Trek actor George Takei blasted Monday’s decision by the Supreme Court allowing the craft store Hobby Lobby to opt out of the contraceptive mandate of the Affordabl

Want to know why Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable has any chance of passing despite huge opposition from even the company’s own customers , look no further than emails recently uncovered by Muc

A “superathlete” gene that helps Sherpas and other Tibetans breathe easy at high altitudes was inherited from an ancient species of human. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that the ge

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Wait, WUT? Every so often, when I am sitting alone with my phone (sad panda) and have some time to kill, I log into the anonymous internet: usually WUT and Secret. After spending most of the last deca

After a breakup, a half-minute-long forgotten iPhone recording takes on new meaning.