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
Product trend: reminders and hints
Google Now is definitely picking up a UI trend — the hint or helping hand. Note that link below. It isn’t an alert subscription, except it is. Also: Amazon: Users who viewed this page bought… LinkedIn: You might also know
Product trend: reminders and hints
Google Now is definitely picking up a UI trend — the hint or helping hand. Note that link below. It isn’t an alert subscription, except it is. Also: Amazon: Users who viewed this page bought… LinkedIn: You might also know
Changing culture
It’s a battle. There are antibodies and there are advocates. Here’s a depressing story about it: https://www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-programming-teacher One lazy person who doesn’t meet the challenge can harm everyone. And here is an awesome story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/education/harvard-case-study-gender-equity.html?src=me&ref=general Tackle all the whiners and opponents
Changing culture
It’s a battle. There are antibodies and there are advocates. Here’s a depressing story about it: https://www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-programming-teacher One lazy person who doesn’t meet the challenge can harm everyone. And here is an awesome story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/education/harvard-case-study-gender-equity.html?src=me&ref=general Tackle all the whiners and opponents
Products I hate: Streak
Streak CRM or variously just Streak is a plugin to Gmail (a Chrome Extension actually) Reason: it’s just ridiculously complicated.
Products I hate: Streak
Streak CRM or variously just Streak is a plugin to Gmail (a Chrome Extension actually) Reason: it’s just ridiculously complicated.
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