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Advice for Building a Startup Inside Someone Else's Ecosystem: Don’t 9 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
"The cave is collapsing!" -- Leia Organa "This is no cave." -- Han Solo Here’s a composite of a three discussions I’ve had with whip-smart founders over the past couple of months about building com....
Why Jeff Bezos Bought the Washington Post--Six Theories 7 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
[ Jeff Bezos was TIME's Person of the Year in 1999. ] Spectacular news broke yesterday that Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. Why WaPo was sold is obvious: running a newspaper sucks. It really...
Stretch Goals Are Important (Or WizzyWig Won $100k in 48 Hours at a Hackathon) 21 Jul 2013 | 12:22 am
[ Summary: Stretch goals are important, and the ones we set for the first LAUNCH Hackathon this past March resulted in a team of three unknown 20-somethings from Pittsburgh building a killer product i...
The Unbearable Wearable: Google Glass is Brilliant, Loathsome and Not Inevitable (or "Take Those off before I Punch You in the Face!") 9 Jul 2013 | 12:02 am
@Scobleizer's infamous Google Glass photo, which his wife took at their home. I’ve run into several friends wearing Google Glass in the past three months, and I have three words of advice for them: ...
LAUNCH Education & Kids 2013: Winners, Videos, All Presenting Companies Are Here 3 Jul 2013 | 12:30 am
[ LAUNCH founder Jason Calacanis's fireside chat with entrepreneur/investor Mitch Kapor before a packed house. Photo by Philip Szeto. ] We were awed and inspired by the 500+ educators, entrepreneurs ...
HackADay Looking for a New Home 2 Jul 2013 | 01:58 am
HackADay.com, an awesome maker community, is looking for a new home -------- tl;dr: HackADay is a passionate community of hackers doing awesome stuff. It deserves more attention than I can give it ri...
WLITF: Private Jets for the Masses -- A Surf Air Review 30 Jun 2013 | 04:22 am
Surf Air uses the Swiss-made Pilatus PC-12 for its flights [ photo courtesy of Pilatus Aircraft ]. As part of my ‘we live in the future’ series, here’s a review of an unlimited private jet service fo...
The 20 Companies You'll See at LAUNCH Education & Kids June 26-27, 2013 25 Jun 2013 | 06:47 am
[ JoyTunes delights the judges at LAUNCH Education & Kids in June 2012. ] We’re proud to announce the 20 companies that take the stage at LAUNCH Education & Kids this week. Tune in for Jason's firesi...
A YouTube Creators' Bill of Rights (Or 'A Roadmap for Building a Better YouTube') 11 Jun 2013 | 05:08 am
In my last piece I explained why I didn’t want to work on YouTube’s farm no more. As promised, in this piece I will follow up on one of the two parts I couldn’t get to in the first piece: 'How Twitter...
I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more 2 Jun 2013 | 10:14 pm
Summary: I spent the last year as a funded YouTube partner and was one of the top ~10% of content creators who had their deals renewed in ‘cycle two’ -- and I turned down their money. In this editori...
