Don't make the mistake of thinking you're [the] customer, you're not – you're the product. – Bruce Schneier LinkedIn released a new product today called Intro . They call it “doing the impossible”, bu
Liam said he wanted to learn about money Fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in your kids 9 min read · Jul 31, 2013 -- What did your parents teach you about money? If you’re anything like me, you wer
Something felt a bit off about this week’s Apple event. Part of it was the lack of surprises, which isn’t Apple’s fault. All of the product upgrades, while nice, were incremental and predictable. None
PayPal has today scored another deal to bring its technology to more point-of-sale platforms via an integration with iPad POS solution provider, Revel Systems , a company whose business has grown by 4
I just updated my utility belt . Well, metaphorically speaking – every self-respecting geek has one. Lately I've been trying to minimize what I carry around even further. After having children I've co
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 8 min read · Oct 21, 2013 -- Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be
Distributed Personal Wiki 3 min read For as long as I can remember I've been trying to find a good way to keep personal text notes. Recipes, notes, ideas, that kind of thing. Things that aren't really
Published 17 October 2013 Share page About sharing By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News The brain uses sleep to wash away the waste toxins built up during a hard day's thinking, re
Update: Somehow, I managed to remove the middle section of this post and most of the code example when I was updating labels, or adding a link, or something. It read like nonsense because of that, but
karen_e Oct 16, 2013 For related and timely reading on this topic, I am working through “Bay Watched” in the October 14th New Yorker. “How San Francisco’s new entrepreneurial culture is changing the c
Lerer Ventures’ Investment in Soylent I’m excited to announce that Lerer Ventures has invested in Soylent , a startup that’s working on nutritionally complete beverages. I mentioned Soylent in my second blog post: I’d much rather talk about Bitcoin, Soylent , and Drones than I would the next…
It’s not engagement. Engagement, (time-on-site, page views, number of sessions per day) is the wrong concept because it doesn’t apply to most products. The best metric is share of habit. Engagement fa
Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites , publish laws and data , and even collaborate on policies themselves . Today we’re proud t
Post-mortem of a Dead-on-Arrival SaaS Product 3 min read A little over a year ago I announced the launch of my latest (at the time) product named Marginalia. The idea was to be a sort of online journa
ts general terms were mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, which imposed numerous regulatory changes on corporate and banking behavior in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.
Congress, however, asked the SEC to figure out how to put it into practice. The SEC voted in September to open its proposed…
Instapaper has a new Chrome extension to help users save interesting web pages to their Kindle, PC, Mac, iOS or Android device. It works almost identically to the Instapaper bookmarklet – just click o
The Cold War had plenty of disadvantages for the world as a whole, true, but there was never a better time to be a mad scientist with crazy doomsday devices. No longer limited to freelance work delive
As countries around the world gradually lift regulations on the use of commercial drones, a new startup called Flirtey hopes to turn Australia into a worldwide industry leader for the use of UAVs (unm
" The context in which makes possible an underlying sense of the way it all fits together despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such " - The Books, "Smells Like Content" I was with
The room-renting startup rumored to be worth $2.5 billion is facing eviction from New York. Airbnb is under attack from the state, and countering by begging for grassroots support—won't you help this company go public someday? Attorney General Subpoenaed Data on 15,000 Airbnb Hosts in New York…
Last year, Foursquare was said to be on the verge of bankruptcy, unable to turn its social media star into a sustainable business . Since then, however, the startup has raised a $41 million round of f
A week into the partial government shutdown, and there’s still no end in sight to America’s latest self-inflicted fiscal crisis. The two sides, in particular the House Republicans, appear to be gettin
JVM Languages Permalink The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because of it. Related Reading Parallels Supports Docker Apps Xamarin Editions
The Remarkably Relaxed Terence Tao is one of the world’s best mathematicians. He won a Fields Medal when he was 31. He is, we can agree, remarkable. He is not, however, busy . I should be careful abou
Zurich: Global wealth has risen by 68 per cent over the past 10 years to reach a new all-time high of $241 trillion and the United States accounts for nearly three quarters of the increase, Credit Sui
I'm sure there are plenty more out there, but I look for these: No demonstrated user need. For example, consider 3D movies and TV. If you ask people why they sometimes prefer stage to screen, nobody ever says, "Oh, movies are only 2D." 3D tech has novelty value , but even a little user testing would…
A man reads morning newspapers from around the U.S. at the Newseum in Washington, Oct. 1, 2013. Gary Cameron/Reuters U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of b
[Note: In response to the interest generated by this post I have also posted No, You Cannot be a Professor--the Reactions and For New Readers: Northwest History's Greatest Hits .] [2014 Update: So wha
Published 9 October 2013 Share page About sharing The average Briton gets six-and-a-half hours' sleep a night, according to the Sleep Council. Michael Mosley took part in an unusual experiment to see
Today’s a big, exciting day for anybody who has found it simply too difficult, to date, to throw their money away on idiotic gambles. Are you bored with Las Vegas? Have you become disillusioned with l
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 4 min read · Sep 12, 2013 -- Today is a day I’ve waited patiently for for 5 years but more earnestly for more than 1 year. I am thrilled to announce that we have
Mike Brown 's date stared at him in shock as he told her he’d have to cut their evening short after only 30 minutes. She must have assumed the rendezvous had gone terribly wrong, but that wasn't it. B
This is a guest post by a friend of mine on email marketing. Elizabeth Yin is the CEO and a co-founder of LaunchBit, an ad network for email newsletters. Previously, she worked at startups and Google,
Illustration byGluekit. Photo: Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images (Obama); Krasilnikov Stanislav/Itar-Tass Photo/Corbis (Zuckerberg); Adele Starr/AP (Aates); Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Ima
Amenities at the Fifth + Tillery offices include a fitness center, beautifully landscaped courtyards, and… Read more The new industrial space lease represents roughly 54% of rentable square feet at th
“We gotta do a deal together” Those six words are pretty common in the VC world. It’s typically said when one VC sees another VC at a conference, breakfast or whatever. I often smile inside when i hea
Bijan Sabet started it with a great post titled We Gotta Do A Deal Together and Fred Wilson followed with an equally great post titled Trading Deals, A Lost Art? I’m going to try to add to the mix wit
On Monday, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that 19 companies agreed to cease their practice of writing fake online reviews and pay hefty penalties for false advertising and deceptive b
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