A historical collection of our writing.
This week, I traded alot of emails with a great hacker in Barcelona, had a skype call with a CEO in London, and had lunch on Friday with a South African and a half British/half French guy (at a Filipino restaurant, natch).I personally feel provincial, what with a simple NY pedigree. At betaworks […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Paul Graham:The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity. And so it is in this case. There is a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup investing. Y Combinator funds startups at the very beginning. VCs will fund them once they’re already starting to succeed. But […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Why did betaworks get involved with someecards? See below – Brook Lundy, co-founder. […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
My list of most important apps/products of the last 30 years:*Remote control*MTV circa 1980-84*Curb-side check in*Caller ID*Email*Instant messaging*iPod 80 gig*EZPass*EpiPen*Metrocards on NYC subways*Suzuki method of teaching guitar*Senduit/Rapidshare/yousendit/megaupload etc etc […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Y Combinator’s investor demo day was last week, out in Mountain View, showcasing the latest batch of companies that Paul & Co. have funded and worked with . Kind of blew my mind. Not because I saw 19 very interesting and innovative ideas (yes, every single one of them), not because they will all be […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
There is one way that a Microsoft – Yahoo merger makes very important sense, and that area has as its base email. Yahoo mail, according to Wikipedia, has 260 million users. Microsoft Hotmail looks to have 280 million users.Putting aside all the chatter about search, display ads and content (total […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
