A historical collection of our writing.
Probably the most interesting exchange on yesterday’s VC Panel at Google I/O was around how investors think about open versus closed systems. Dave McClure got the most memorable line of the day with “Open is for losers.” Dave was obviously being provocative on purpose. My own thinking here was […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Tonight I am giving a talk at the First NYC Digital Learning Meetup. The event is organized by the folks from Startl, which aims to support and accelerate the development of companies that apply technology to enable learner-centered education. I am very much looking forward to speaking, as “Hacking […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I woke up this morning thinking that I should write a post on privacy, having read Fred’s post and danah boyd’s two posts over the weekend and Charlie’s post this morning. Then I realized, I should probably check what I have written about privacy here before, since it seems to be a recurring topic. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It is very rare that I find myself disagreeing with Chris Dixon, but the other day Chris tweeted I will be heading up to Boston tomorrow to judge MIT’s 100K competition and have a pretty different take on it. The purpose of a business plan competition is to get students excited about startups, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I love learning new things and have written about learning on this blog several times before. But I am also a fan of observing mastery. I seem to remember reading in Gladwell’s Outliers, that mastery requires at least 10,000 hours of doing something. This makes it unlikely that I will achieve […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As of yesterday we have completed our 75+ phone screens. If you have applied but have not heard from us at all by now, then we somehow missed you and should contact us immediately. We are now in the process of inviting candidates for in-person interviews. We are still figuring out the exact […] Read more
