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Facebook: Killing email!!!
2007: my friends don’t email anymore, they use facebook (web hipster) http://www.mappingtheweb.com/2007/07/11/facebook-email/ 2009: Email is dying (wsj, jessica lessin) http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372 2010: Facebook replacing your email (cnn, cashmore) http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/11/cashmore.facebook.email/ 2010: data shows email dying (Pew) http://socialtimes.com/facebook-twitter-email_b2040 2014: Facebook kills…its email product

Facebook: Killing email!!!
2007: my friends don’t email anymore, they use facebook (web hipster) http://www.mappingtheweb.com/2007/07/11/facebook-email/ 2009: Email is dying (wsj, jessica lessin) http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372 2010: Facebook replacing your email (cnn, cashmore) http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/11/cashmore.facebook.email/ 2010: data shows email dying (Pew) http://socialtimes.com/facebook-twitter-email_b2040 2014: Facebook kills…its email product

First Gramofons available
A year ago my friend asked my help in making this. We have taken the wraps off the new cloud jukebox from Fon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon/gramofon-modern-cloud-jukebox The first few are available to Kickstarter backers. You will be able to stream your Spotify

First Gramofons available
A year ago my friend asked my help in making this. We have taken the wraps off the new cloud jukebox from Fon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon/gramofon-modern-cloud-jukebox The first few are available to Kickstarter backers. You will be able to stream your Spotify

The power of TV
Startups often dream about “oh when we raise the money we will be able to buy on TV, and that will catalyze performance” The reason you don’t know any startups who do this – really, no startups, is that it

The power of TV
Startups often dream about “oh when we raise the money we will be able to buy on TV, and that will catalyze performance” The reason you don’t know any startups who do this – really, no startups, is that it

Trends Fred Wilson missed this week
Totemic post by Fred Wilson this week announcing the end of the mobile app era and the new reigning monarch: blockchain. Much discussed by all and partly for its remarkable clarity of themes: social era 2004 fund, mobile/social 2008 fund,

Trends Fred Wilson missed this week
Totemic post by Fred Wilson this week announcing the end of the mobile app era and the new reigning monarch: blockchain. Much discussed by all and partly for its remarkable clarity of themes: social era 2004 fund, mobile/social 2008 fund,

NYC as startup hub
In my office on Monday were – former intern for Shana Fisher at IAC and part-timer for Etsy alumni startup in Brooklyn – Rapgenius early team and Google Reader superfan – guy who made Hulu running his own new thing

NYC as startup hub
In my office on Monday were – former intern for Shana Fisher at IAC and part-timer for Etsy alumni startup in Brooklyn – Rapgenius early team and Google Reader superfan – guy who made Hulu running his own new thing

When to know you failed
As John Burroughs said, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

When to know you failed
As John Burroughs said, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

The overnight success of Spotify
Founded 2006 Aug Launch May 2007 1mm listener users 2009 1mm subscribers 2011

The overnight success of Spotify
Founded 2006 Aug Launch May 2007 1mm listener users 2009 1mm subscribers 2011

Beginner’s mistakes for product managers
I remember when I was a sucker… I recently watched this exact cycle. Don’t repeat it yourself. 1. Hmm, this product is exciting. It would be so great if it did X. Add that. 2. Oh, man this isn’t working.

Beginner’s mistakes for product managers
I remember when I was a sucker… I recently watched this exact cycle. Don’t repeat it yourself. 1. Hmm, this product is exciting. It would be so great if it did X. Add that. 2. Oh, man this isn’t working.

Molto for iOS
This mail app is gorgeous. It has so many things right with it. Reading mails, seeing who wrote them, organizing them with swipes. But like so many mail apps, one flaw kills it. In this case it is composing emails.

Molto for iOS
This mail app is gorgeous. It has so many things right with it. Reading mails, seeing who wrote them, organizing them with swipes. But like so many mail apps, one flaw kills it. In this case it is composing emails.

The word the
Everyone is a consumer marketer, just like everyone is a product designer, because everyone receives marketing and uses products. Of course this is completely wrong. For example, the word the. We say the. We say the iPhone. We say the

The word the
Everyone is a consumer marketer, just like everyone is a product designer, because everyone receives marketing and uses products. Of course this is completely wrong. For example, the word the. We say the. We say the iPhone. We say the
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