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Shorter Future: Michio Kaku +/- Kurzweil (re: Jetpack Venture Capital)
Sameness in making predictions would seem to be a good thing. Maybe your prediction is right. I have read a few futurism books lately by Kurzweil and Michio Kaku. I have also read the Softbank “next 300 years” strategy statement
Shorter Future: Michio Kaku +/- Kurzweil (re: Jetpack Venture Capital)
Sameness in making predictions would seem to be a good thing. Maybe your prediction is right. I have read a few futurism books lately by Kurzweil and Michio Kaku. I have also read the Softbank “next 300 years” strategy statement
Jetpack Venture Capital, the playbook
Science and futurist investing is a big, big trend in VC. Maybe that’s obvious. Here is Thiel’s “late stage fund” investing in a futuristic technology for cancer. Nanotech that sends vibrating tiny jackhammers to cancer cells, then activates them with
Jetpack Venture Capital, the playbook
Science and futurist investing is a big, big trend in VC. Maybe that’s obvious. Here is Thiel’s “late stage fund” investing in a futuristic technology for cancer. Nanotech that sends vibrating tiny jackhammers to cancer cells, then activates them with
Freud, you romantic bastard
Tables and chairs, beds, mirrors, a clock to remind the happy couple of the passage of time, an armchair for an hour’s pleasant daydreaming, carpets to help the housewife keep the floors clean, linen tied with pretty ribbons in the
Freud, you romantic bastard
Tables and chairs, beds, mirrors, a clock to remind the happy couple of the passage of time, an armchair for an hour’s pleasant daydreaming, carpets to help the housewife keep the floors clean, linen tied with pretty ribbons in the
Phone rings. “I fucked up” he says.
[My batphone rings occasionally. It is awesome.] “I fucked up. We are out of cash. Not much runway left. I gotta get our guys to put in more cash asap.” Now this can be a long conversation. In the event
Phone rings. “I fucked up” he says.
[My batphone rings occasionally. It is awesome.] “I fucked up. We are out of cash. Not much runway left. I gotta get our guys to put in more cash asap.” Now this can be a long conversation. In the event
“Add a line of code to your app” SDKs
There are a lot of reasons to add a line of code to your app — all kinds of analytics and security and lifecycle 3rd-party services out there. The granddaddy is Urchin / Google Analytics that let you drop a
“Add a line of code to your app” SDKs
There are a lot of reasons to add a line of code to your app — all kinds of analytics and security and lifecycle 3rd-party services out there. The granddaddy is Urchin / Google Analytics that let you drop a
The grandest, most sci-fi corporate strategy of anyone except Google: SoftBank
Google: organize the worlds information SoftBank: happiness for everyone through information Because information stops loneliness. It sounds cheesily Japanese. But read the 133 page deck written by one of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs here: http://cdn.softbank.jp/en/corp/set/data/irinfo/presentations/vod/2010/pdf/press_20100625_01.pdf Notable: – SoftBank has
The grandest, most sci-fi corporate strategy of anyone except Google: SoftBank
Google: organize the worlds information SoftBank: happiness for everyone through information Because information stops loneliness. It sounds cheesily Japanese. But read the 133 page deck written by one of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs here: http://cdn.softbank.jp/en/corp/set/data/irinfo/presentations/vod/2010/pdf/press_20100625_01.pdf Notable: – SoftBank has
Overpaying
Why do people overpay? Understand that and you can be a better seller. The publishing industry apparently mints new novelists each year and pays them say $30k advances for novels. But each year, says my friend the novelist, a few
Overpaying
Why do people overpay? Understand that and you can be a better seller. The publishing industry apparently mints new novelists each year and pays them say $30k advances for novels. But each year, says my friend the novelist, a few
Go Trello!
We use Trello a ton at Knotable so we are psyched to see Joel announce grand plans. Check out some of our inspiration drawn from them here at the Knotable Knotes blog.
Go Trello!
We use Trello a ton at Knotable so we are psyched to see Joel announce grand plans. Check out some of our inspiration drawn from them here at the Knotable Knotes blog.
Foxlife and Keith Richards
I have been giving a number of people a short speech about the Isaiah Berlin paper about the fox and the hedgehog. Here is a fox, Keith Richards, explaining what it is like to be a fox and how it
Foxlife and Keith Richards
I have been giving a number of people a short speech about the Isaiah Berlin paper about the fox and the hedgehog. Here is a fox, Keith Richards, explaining what it is like to be a fox and how it
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