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How much to raise
Debate ensuing in my inbox: – Raise as little as possible! You can raise more at milestones easily. Too much money correlates to failure. Here is Fred Wilson making that point http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/09/maximizing-runway-can-minimize-success.html – Protect equity above all! It never comes

How much to raise
Debate ensuing in my inbox: – Raise as little as possible! You can raise more at milestones easily. Too much money correlates to failure. Here is Fred Wilson making that point http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/09/maximizing-runway-can-minimize-success.html – Protect equity above all! It never comes

Information overload, the early years
Some things will never change. This is one of those things. The printing press changed that. First developed around 1453, the new technology invented by Gutenberg had moved beyond the experimental phase by 1480 and spread to some two dozen

Information overload, the early years
Some things will never change. This is one of those things. The printing press changed that. First developed around 1453, the new technology invented by Gutenberg had moved beyond the experimental phase by 1480 and spread to some two dozen

NLP in Search Results = SEO Negative Juice
Bad shit is coming for site owners. SEO has already been diving in it’s “quality”. This new Google result thing I’ve been noticing should be horrifying — SEO will turn to Google mining your site for answers and never sending

NLP in Search Results = SEO Negative Juice
Bad shit is coming for site owners. SEO has already been diving in it’s “quality”. This new Google result thing I’ve been noticing should be horrifying — SEO will turn to Google mining your site for answers and never sending

New ways of writing
I’m pretty amazed to see the big boom of startups doing really smart things with long-form writing and editing. http://Medium.com https://editorially.com/ http://draftin.com http://contently.com Pen.io Surely something quite amazing is coming soon, not just for the way you write novels but

New ways of writing
I’m pretty amazed to see the big boom of startups doing really smart things with long-form writing and editing. http://Medium.com https://editorially.com/ http://draftin.com http://contently.com Pen.io Surely something quite amazing is coming soon, not just for the way you write novels but

The best deals don’t get pitched
When your company is awesome you only need to pitch. When not awesome you need to, and do, and meet everyone. So investors know when a deal is bad. But how do they know if a deal is good? Most

The best deals don’t get pitched
When your company is awesome you only need to pitch. When not awesome you need to, and do, and meet everyone. So investors know when a deal is bad. But how do they know if a deal is good? Most

New company idea
Elance meets Mechanical Turk meets Taskrabbit. Submit your product “spec” and we cut it up into pieces and race elancers against each other to build it. Starts as a consulting driven, human input project, becomes a “reusable components” library/tool/platform/marketplace. Twilio

New company idea
Elance meets Mechanical Turk meets Taskrabbit. Submit your product “spec” and we cut it up into pieces and race elancers against each other to build it. Starts as a consulting driven, human input project, becomes a “reusable components” library/tool/platform/marketplace. Twilio

How VCs work
All VCs have ten gears. One is forward. The rest are reverse. Hat tip to Reed Hundt, aka master of the universe.

How VCs work
All VCs have ten gears. One is forward. The rest are reverse. Hat tip to Reed Hundt, aka master of the universe.

In Startup City
Been a while. In SF today. NYC has a lot of startups? Got nothing on SF. Land. Taxi to friends office. We are in the Siebel building. Trying to get in the locked door with me is the head of

In Startup City
Been a while. In SF today. NYC has a lot of startups? Got nothing on SF. Land. Taxi to friends office. We are in the Siebel building. Trying to get in the locked door with me is the head of
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