A historical collection of our writing.
It is 2010 and while we don’t have jetpacks, it doesn’t seem too much to ask to not have to deal with paper stock certificates. Yet most early stage deals that I see still wind up sending out physical paper certificates. While it may seem like a convenient way to push out the expense of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday was a fertile day for comments on comments: John Gruber, Bijan Sabet and then Marco Arment all provided interesting food for thought. For starters, I firmly believe that what someone chooses to do on their own blog is and should always be entirely their own decision. It is their property […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The amazing team at our portfolio company Twilio has done it again: taken something that was previously complicated and made it super simple. This time they set their sights on business telephone systems (formerly known as PBXs, which – if anyone remembers – is short for Private Branch Exchange). […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There are certain topics that periodically rear their heads, such as privacy. The one that is on my mind this morning is attention. I don’t know whether there really is a deep attention crisis, but my own anecdotal evidence suggests that we may well have a problem. Yesterday evening, I was watching […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am a huge fan of Dan Ariely’s writing because I believe it makes behavioral economics relevant to every day business decision making. I have just finished the first two chapters of his new book “The Upside of Irrationality” and can already strongly recommend it. Chapter 2 in particular is be a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I was really surprised that Steve Jobs did not announce more cloud capabilities for Apple during his WWDC keynote. It had been rumored that MobileMe might become free and Apple has been investing heavily in data centers. I believe that this is critical for Apple if they want to maintain their […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
