The Watch

Weird about the reaction to the watch: people are seemingly going through the motions with their questions. They are literally feigning skepticism — “are people ready”, “will it really be useful or just a silly gadget”, “do the Swiss Watch

The Watch

Weird about the reaction to the watch: people are seemingly going through the motions with their questions. They are literally feigning skepticism — “are people ready”, “will it really be useful or just a silly gadget”, “do the Swiss Watch

Trends in venture capital

Facts I didn’t know – venture capital as a class is cash flow positive – venture returns for top quartile funds are better than the market over the decade – 10 funds raised half of the money committed in the

Trends in venture capital

Facts I didn’t know – venture capital as a class is cash flow positive – venture returns for top quartile funds are better than the market over the decade – 10 funds raised half of the money committed in the

“But I’m early in my career and haven’t had a chance to do something yet”

Me: Get back to me when you have done something. Go do something great. There is no interview or assessment of intelligence, creativity, sacrifice, and desire when someone has done something. In our world you no longer need an invitation

“But I’m early in my career and haven’t had a chance to do something yet”

Me: Get back to me when you have done something. Go do something great. There is no interview or assessment of intelligence, creativity, sacrifice, and desire when someone has done something. In our world you no longer need an invitation

Success

Society does win. Ozone hole. Solved by the Montreal Protocol. http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-13/latest-news-ozone-layer-shows-we-can-solve-big-environmental-problems Crime. Solved by modern policing. James Q Wilson and Korean analytics. Not Clinton. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2373754/Crime-fallen-70-major-global-cities-despite-economic-crisis-rising-unemployment.html Kind of an awful article but it does list all possible reasons why. Point being,

Success

Society does win. Ozone hole. Solved by the Montreal Protocol. http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-13/latest-news-ozone-layer-shows-we-can-solve-big-environmental-problems Crime. Solved by modern policing. James Q Wilson and Korean analytics. Not Clinton. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2373754/Crime-fallen-70-major-global-cities-despite-economic-crisis-rising-unemployment.html Kind of an awful article but it does list all possible reasons why. Point being,

What’s wrong with the Android watches

This: “A few months in, there’s still really not that much you can do with Android Wear. Whenever I show it to people my demo almost always either ends in ten seconds (“look at all the watchfaces!”) or involves me

What’s wrong with the Android watches

This: “A few months in, there’s still really not that much you can do with Android Wear. Whenever I show it to people my demo almost always either ends in ten seconds (“look at all the watchfaces!”) or involves me

What happens to Disrupt winners?

  Generally good to very good things. “Portfolio” looks better than the typical VC portfolio possibly? Yammer counts as a huge win for sure.

What happens to Disrupt winners?

  Generally good to very good things. “Portfolio” looks better than the typical VC portfolio possibly? Yammer counts as a huge win for sure.

An upvote please

Hey, We started showing Knotable to folks and now things are really flowing…a little faster than expected. If you have a Twitter account please upvote Knotable here –> link   We are trying to win a free vacuum cleaner :)

An upvote please

Hey, We started showing Knotable to folks and now things are really flowing…a little faster than expected. If you have a Twitter account please upvote Knotable here –> link   We are trying to win a free vacuum cleaner :)

1 secret about the largest meetup in the world

The NYTM is the biggest. At dinner with one of the founders I found out one ingredient in how it got so big. I already knew it was “the first meetup” founded by the founder of Meetup.com. And I knew

1 secret about the largest meetup in the world

The NYTM is the biggest. At dinner with one of the founders I found out one ingredient in how it got so big. I already knew it was “the first meetup” founded by the founder of Meetup.com. And I knew

Talk vs Demo

Tonight I gave a demo. In front of 1,000 people and their twitter accounts at New York Tech Meetup. I often give talks. I recently hypnotized 500 people, never having done hypnosis. It was cool. But a tech demo. Yikes.

Talk vs Demo

Tonight I gave a demo. In front of 1,000 people and their twitter accounts at New York Tech Meetup. I often give talks. I recently hypnotized 500 people, never having done hypnosis. It was cool. But a tech demo. Yikes.

Climate change “commons” idea

Most people think the way to show the societal cost of carbon pollution is via carbon tax, rather than leaving it an externality. There is another way I just thought of. I have never heard anyone discuss it. Ready? A

Climate change “commons” idea

Most people think the way to show the societal cost of carbon pollution is via carbon tax, rather than leaving it an externality. There is another way I just thought of. I have never heard anyone discuss it. Ready? A