January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Sky...
Yesterday, Yuri Milner offered *every* new graduate of Y Combinator $150,000 in uncapped, undiscounted convertible debt. Milner did this ostensibly as an individual, rather than on behalf of his investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies, but it’s probably naive to think the gains and losses stemming from this investment won’t be absorbed by DST. Effectively, then, DST (through Milner)...
Jan 30th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 21st
“An authority isn’t a person or institution who is always right —...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary via Andrew Sullivan
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 11th
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Onboarding: The First, Best Chance to Make a...
(Apologies in advance for cribbing the Steve Blank blog structure, but well…it’s a good structure) I’ve been thinking lately about onboarding.  While definitions vary, I like this one from Tristan Kromer: ”onboarding is the process of acquiring and assimilating new people / users into a system [or] culture.”  To reframe that in a business context: onboarding is the...
Jan 10th
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“I think all the long vids on youtube are a bunch of crap, but this video was...”
– This comment really made me smile. Eight months ago I drove from SF to NY and created a time-lapse video of the journey.  Today, a high-schooler in Sweden saw that video and got excited for when he could do the same.  The internet is pretty great.
Jan 4th