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About a year and a half ago, my mother’s partner was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given less than six months to live. Since then it has been treatments, pain, and truly miraculous victories - but the word “terminal” is pretty clear; at some point you will lose. I flew home as soon as things started to take a…
I co-founded PrepMe in 2001. We were one of the first education companies online and the first purely online, personalized platform. We were acquired in 2011 by Providence Equity-backed Ascend Lea…
Spinning your wheels for today? Here are some mini-projects to get you started.
A surprisingly generous sharing of ideas (and the actual deck) from a successful fund-raise.
I should have thought of it first. I walked into Starbucks one afternoon. Ok. Ok. I do this every afternoon, but something was different this time. Something really neat was going on.
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
We had our YC interview on Friday and were super confused after it. We sort of expected that. We talked to over a dozen YC founders and ...
Two months ago, I launched a [regex tester](/). W...
Attitudes towards the Facebook platform have changed Recently, Bill Gurley of Benchmark wrote a great piece on how platform companies like Facebook, iOS, Android, eBay, and others manage the ecosystem around them. It’s an important essay and I’d recommend you all read it. I found myself nodding my head as Facebook was…
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen calls himself “the world’s least powerful CEO." They've found huge success with a weak CEO by organizing into autonomous cells.
