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Brief reviews of “smarter” email apps: Streak vs. RelateIQ

Streak: boy are they working hard on the onboarding process, but fundamentally the design/UI is confusing though the product is helpful RelateIQ: holy fucking shit this is awesome.

Brief reviews of “smarter” email apps: Streak vs. RelateIQ

Streak: boy are they working hard on the onboarding process, but fundamentally the design/UI is confusing though the product is helpful RelateIQ: holy fucking shit this is awesome.

If ideas are cheap, then making them is the thing

Experienced startup people value ideas hardly at all. What have you made? That is the question. Still most ideas aren’t so creative. Here are some good ideas: Drucker’s book about entrepreneurship is good. And www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/04/a-technique-for-producing-ideas-young And Maria Popova has this

If ideas are cheap, then making them is the thing

Experienced startup people value ideas hardly at all. What have you made? That is the question. Still most ideas aren’t so creative. Here are some good ideas: Drucker’s book about entrepreneurship is good. And www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/04/a-technique-for-producing-ideas-young And Maria Popova has this

Fix a problem, make another

Innovation can annoy people. Witness the Yahoo Mail hubbub. (I am a fan of the change.) Another example is how Gmail hides signatures. Gee thanks! Except every time someone asks me for my phone number when it is RIGHT THERE

Fix a problem, make another

Innovation can annoy people. Witness the Yahoo Mail hubbub. (I am a fan of the change.) Another example is how Gmail hides signatures. Gee thanks! Except every time someone asks me for my phone number when it is RIGHT THERE

Transparency is our religion

Being open is a trend. From the psycho head of the world’s largest hedge fund –> Ray Dalio’s Principles To the fine Bloomberg Beta venture fund’s operating principles Of course including all the VC “unbundling” blogs like Hornik and Fred

Transparency is our religion

Being open is a trend. From the psycho head of the world’s largest hedge fund –> Ray Dalio’s Principles To the fine Bloomberg Beta venture fund’s operating principles Of course including all the VC “unbundling” blogs like Hornik and Fred

Take knote

Season’s greetings! I’ve been hard at work all year and I want to share the results with you. Take **knote**. We have started showing some people our creation, **Knotable**. It’s our new tool for thinking together. A platform where you

Take knote

Season’s greetings! I’ve been hard at work all year and I want to share the results with you. Take **knote**. We have started showing some people our creation, **Knotable**. It’s our new tool for thinking together. A platform where you

If you can say this, your product can win

5) Meteor is the future Some people might hesitate to learn Meteor because it is quite different from programming in a traditional LAMP stack or an MVC framework like Rails. I would argue this is actually an argument in favor

If you can say this, your product can win

5) Meteor is the future Some people might hesitate to learn Meteor because it is quite different from programming in a traditional LAMP stack or an MVC framework like Rails. I would argue this is actually an argument in favor

The Taskrabbit problem on Angel List

The Taskrabbit problem is: find people this way, but valuable relationships you take offline (though perhaps still manage through email and pay through paypal) The Angel List version of this is: I am investing a lot of money in your

The Taskrabbit problem on Angel List

The Taskrabbit problem is: find people this way, but valuable relationships you take offline (though perhaps still manage through email and pay through paypal) The Angel List version of this is: I am investing a lot of money in your

Help build Brooklyn’s free wifi network

Fon is launching a program to make free wifi available all over. Be part of it if you are in Brooklyn. Get a free fon router and help make Downtown Brooklyn the most connected neighborhood in NYC. Downtownbrooklyn.fon.com

Help build Brooklyn’s free wifi network

Fon is launching a program to make free wifi available all over. Be part of it if you are in Brooklyn. Get a free fon router and help make Downtown Brooklyn the most connected neighborhood in NYC. Downtownbrooklyn.fon.com

@cdixon makes the most rational argument re: Bitcoin

The most rational few paragraphs on bitcoin I have read. The main argument is NOT – no government – no printing money – no “control”/NSA The argument is – the distributed design of the Internet, for money flows – all

@cdixon makes the most rational argument re: Bitcoin

The most rational few paragraphs on bitcoin I have read. The main argument is NOT – no government – no printing money – no “control”/NSA The argument is – the distributed design of the Internet, for money flows – all