I have been a VC general partner for nearly 10 years at a large brand name fund. Have had several successful exits. Am on the exact kind of career and portfolio trajectory I wanted to be on - and am extremely thankful for it and wake up thanking my lucky stars every morning. There are lots of great…

Published Jun 06 2011 If you're a web developer and own an iOS device, you may have noticed it comes with a whole range of accessibility features. One such feature is a built-in screen reader for visually impaired users, called VoiceOver. For a touch screen device, VoiceOver is a wonderfully capable…

chimeracoder: Really glad to see "A society of phone zombies" by @stevenleeg on the front page of HackerNews. http://t.co/gKnuHNP5Ot (@hackNY #FTW!)

For a long time I've been thinking that Facebook users are very similar to smokers. Like all classic addicts, both are not proud of their behavior, deny the strength of their addiction but eventually will admit they want to quit. But they won't. Allen Carr could probably rewrite Easy Way to Stop…

Want to Feel Badass? A Design Teardown of Music App Mindie. This essay originally appeared on PandoDaily . Last night me and Mindie were fooling around in bed. It was fun and delightfully surprising.

Burgers on the Grill This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice .  This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself.  But some companies have…

Snapchat’s latest valuation puts it at $4 billion dollars. Let’s compare that to the market cap of some other well-known tech companies: Here’s an awesome graph put together by Tech Crunch that I have altered to include Snapchat at a conservative valuation of $3.5bn. Investors aren’t dumb. In fact,…

One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs. Zamula, my childhood art teacher, first warned me about black when I was in middle school. And I heard the same again multiple times at RISD. It sounds weird at first, but it’s good advice.…

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I’ve been using Kindles for almost two years. My first Kindle was a 4th generation Kindle (not the touch one). Since then, ebooks for me was just a thing from a science fiction articles, just like flying cars. It was technically plausible but couldn’t see it replacing paper books anytime soon. News…