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How to Fail as a startup founder, true story

Story of two founders: Number 1, guy I know, a year ago quits his job on Wall St after 15 years and announces he is going to start a company that takes on LinkedIn and another great social/expertise startup using

How to Fail as a startup founder, true story

Story of two founders: Number 1, guy I know, a year ago quits his job on Wall St after 15 years and announces he is going to start a company that takes on LinkedIn and another great social/expertise startup using

The end of Blockbuster

A propos of Netflix doomsaying lately, here is a check to Peek from the BB liquidation. Remember when those guys were going to strike back?

The end of Blockbuster

A propos of Netflix doomsaying lately, here is a check to Peek from the BB liquidation. Remember when those guys were going to strike back?

Free Netflix

All these dummies freaking out about the new interest of incumbents in competing against Netflix are wrong. Netflix hasn’t even unleashed Comcast’s worst nightmare yet: free, ad-supported shows.

Free Netflix

All these dummies freaking out about the new interest of incumbents in competing against Netflix are wrong. Netflix hasn’t even unleashed Comcast’s worst nightmare yet: free, ad-supported shows.

What I know about you

Here is what I know about you, my email correspondents, via Rapleaf. And for a few dollars more I could know it on a person by person basis. Wow.

What I know about you

Here is what I know about you, my email correspondents, via Rapleaf. And for a few dollars more I could know it on a person by person basis. Wow.

Idea: can I act like Google if I am an SMB with some email addresses?

I am a small business with a few hundred emails. I use constant contact. Can I click a button and get graphs/charts/data on who these people are? Names, incomes, jobs, web habits…maybe even target them online? Update: Well, it exists

Idea: can I act like Google if I am an SMB with some email addresses?

I am a small business with a few hundred emails. I use constant contact. Can I click a button and get graphs/charts/data on who these people are? Names, incomes, jobs, web habits…maybe even target them online? Update: Well, it exists

Seeing Turntable.fm’s product as a game

The dysfunction story about Turntable is kind of scary. You make something cool on a shoestring, it works, and then it gets boring for everyone, all of a sudden. My theory is this is kind of what happened to Foursquare.

Seeing Turntable.fm’s product as a game

The dysfunction story about Turntable is kind of scary. You make something cool on a shoestring, it works, and then it gets boring for everyone, all of a sudden. My theory is this is kind of what happened to Foursquare.

Fact checking TechCrunch and Arrington

Read this review knowing they shut down shortly after. http://m.techcrunch.com/2010/02/03/kwedit-launches-the-first-completely-unrel…

Fact checking TechCrunch and Arrington

Read this review knowing they shut down shortly after. http://m.techcrunch.com/2010/02/03/kwedit-launches-the-first-completely-unrel…

A single essential word scrawled on this meeting wall at GA

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A single essential word scrawled on this meeting wall at GA

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