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Losing our product to button syndrome
Fighting a pandemic in the world of software
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Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights
Southwest Airlines famously doesn’t show up when searching online travel agency websites. Historically if you’ve wanted to buy a ticket on Southwest, you’ve had to go directly to Southwest to make the purchase. But desperation and new government regulations appear to be changing all of that.
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Why I don’t usually meet startups in person (2019)
The other day, I tweeted. “Contrarian perspective here – it’s ok to *not* meet a founder in person before deciding to invest.” This set off a tweet firestorm — mostly …
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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack
He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide
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Don't Shave That Yak (2005)
The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont, broaden it a bit. Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occur…
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Guys what is wrong with ACATS
Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the background. No cats were harmed.
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The Cost Center Trap
In the 1960’s, IT was largely an in-house back-office function focused on process automation and cost reduction. Today, IT plays a significa...
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Revisiting Moneyball
Data, sports, payrolls, and memes
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The Locust Economy
Last week, I figured out that I am a part-time locust. Here's how it happened. I was picking the brain of a restauranteur for insight into things like Groupon.…
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How We Fooled Ourselves Into Waiting Too Long To Launch
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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NVD Damage Continued
There is something about having your product installed in over twenty billion instances all over the world and even out of the globe. In my case it helps me remain focused on and committed to working on the security aspects of curl. Ideally, we will never have our heartbleed moment. Security is also a generally ……
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A summary of my learnings on how to find startup ideas
I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come up with startup ideas and below is the summary of what I’ve…
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Minsky Moments in Venture Capital
Markets rise, and markets fall. This much, at least, is well-known. But why do market cycles occur? What causes the pendulum to swing from euphoria to crisis and back? Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably the best-known explanation for the boom and bust cycles…
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How To: Spend your investors’ money
I’ve invested in two startups and advise, officially and unofficially, a dozen or so other startups. Recently, a company that I’m involved with, attachments.me , raised $500,000 from Foundry Group . Since their raise, the two cofounders, Ben and Jesse, have been on a tear adding features, solidifying the…
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IPad 2 introduces new headphone jack
Update: Just to clarify, this post is speculation, not fact. Based on the excellent iFixit teardowns it looks like the iPad 2 headphone jack has pins on both sides , which is more in line with Apple's typical cantilever design (roughly similar to the jack in the Macbook Air ). Interestingly, it looks like the…
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Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews
Most people want to work for your company for money, and there’s nothing wrong with that.