A historical collection of our writing.
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
Andrew ParkerAs a consumer of information on the internet, I often find myself doing a variety of long tail searches on esoteric topics that relate to some niche part of my life. Whether it be trying to remember the way to reprogram a keyless entry clicker to an old Volvo or figuring out the best function […] Read more
I believe that PDF and Flash will hang around for quite some time. They are too widespread to disappear quickly. But I am excited about the rise of HTML5 and the gradual replacement of these closed formats. For instance, Scribd’s move to HTML5 is one such step. The reason for my excitement is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Bill Gurley has a must-read post up on how the $32B of affiliate fees will slow down the Internet disruption of the TV industry. I have one addition and one amplification for Bill’s excellent post. First, the addition. More than just supporting an existing flow of dollars, bundling is in fact not […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
