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How To Pitch A Product
I’ve said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six […]
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19 days later, Apple still hasn't approved the Opera Mini app
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire
Managing Director in Lazard's Media, Entertainment & Sports Group. Former CEO of Future Plc, founder of Cheddar News, and President & COO of BuzzFeed.
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Apple forces users to pay full price to redownload already bought ebooks
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Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
Previous: I'm Briefly Discussing President Obama's Reported Internet Wiretapping Proposal Tonight on "Coast to Coast AM" Radio
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Bravo, Apple
Finally, Apple is doing away with those arrogant upstarts who think then can write a few lines in a high level language and call it a program. Their new developer agreement requires:
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I’ve Made $216,688 From Products This Year
Hey, would you look at the time? It’s getting late. Just two months until the deeply introspective blog posts start comin’ hot & heavy. It’s still on
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Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher's Weekly that "publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy" come...
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Daring Fireball: iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations
Notes from today’s WWDC keynote.
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No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions
Last week one of the schools I teach at invited me to judge a business plan contest. I suggested that they first might want to read my post on why business plans are a poor planning and execution t…
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Why No Jobs
Around the time of the Great Depression, a man named John Maynard Keynes made an incredible discovery. The reason so many people were out of work was not really because of irresponsible banks or high taxes or reckless government policy. It was really much simpler than all that: there wasn’t enough money.
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Facebook is Dying
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John Gruber: The iPad
Notes and observations, five days in.
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Bump
One of the nice things about this job is that I’m meeting lots of interesting startups who are doing mobile apps. My fave so far is Bump .
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The Tragic Death of Practically Everything
Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson is catching flak for the magazine's current cover story, which declares that the Web is dead. I'm not sure what the controversy is. For years, once-vibrant technologies, products, and companies have been dropping like teenagers in a Freddy Krueger movie. Thank he
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An illusionist explains why Apple products really are magical
Andrew Mayne is an AI keynote speaker, OpenAI's original prompt engineer, former OpenAI science communicator, OpenAI Podcast host, creative educator, and WSJ bestselling novelist.
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Why Japan Is Doomed
Japan's debt crisis has been building for a decade. Back in 2001 I wrote an essay on Japan's exploding debt and the dire consequences of what I called Japan's Runaway Debt Train (2001) :