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

Making a company is like baking a cake

I got to meet my 18 year old self’s idol, Marc Andreessen, today and he told me: Like cakes you can’t add ingredients to companies after they are baked. You can’t add hardware to Microsoft or add software to Samsung.

Making a company is like baking a cake

I got to meet my 18 year old self’s idol, Marc Andreessen, today and he told me: Like cakes you can’t add ingredients to companies after they are baked. You can’t add hardware to Microsoft or add software to Samsung.

Messaging Paradise

Messaging paradise is a Real Time and New platform. According to Ross Mayfield who is a genius, the lore is you can never build a paradise. You can only get to it. Either you make something Old and Real Time

Messaging Paradise

Messaging paradise is a Real Time and New platform. According to Ross Mayfield who is a genius, the lore is you can never build a paradise. You can only get to it. Either you make something Old and Real Time