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by GCA10 10y ago
Glad to oblige on sources. Here's a copy of Nick Denton's memo announcing the investment and its relevance to the Hogan litigation: http://jimromenesko.com/2016/01/20/gawker-takes-outside-mone... An
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by GCA10 10y ago
Let's not forget that Gawker monied up ahead of the trial, too. In a January 2016 staff memo, Gawker CEO Nick Denton described an investment by Columbus Nova (controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselburg) as a way to make sure his
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Hello? Peel back the calendar, decade by decade, and tell me if you can ever find an era where information publishers were owned by people who were truly pure of heart. It's always been an industry that attracts rich folks with egos. H
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IBM's Odd New Role: Selling Patents to Silicon Valley(forbes.com)
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Actually, it's the VCs' fear map that changes most radically. (Hire enough associates, and you can call 20 customers/prospects/former associates in an afternoon.) In boom times, VCs cut short their due diligence because
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Do Your Job Skills Make You Seem Young or Old?(forbes.com)
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Or maybe a small political movement. Much of our family traces back to the Midwest or southern New England factory towns. It's been quite astonishing seeing the professional and geographic migrations that happen as a new generation com
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by GCA10 10y ago
Per-word is usually a rough yardstick that's invoked when trying to figure out the flat rate for pieces of various sizes. It lets publications quote 500x for shortish pieces of about 500 words; 1,200x for mid-sized pieces of about 1,20
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I'm amazed that a full 22% of ultra-sustained Reddit threads are completely free of Nazi references. That's a beautiful display of self-restraint by a big crowd in an ugly world. I would have pegged the odds of sustained Nazi-free
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In the realm of prank names, this one is actually pretty good. It's not sexist, racist, obscene or infused with hate speech. I can see shutting down a prank name that's got hurtful overtones. But this one is playful and harmless.
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Total market capitalization is roughly $500 billion. So buying back $2.3 billion of shares only shrinks the number of shares by less than 0.5%. That improves EPS by all of about 3 cents. Not enough to matter.
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Tech's new heat map: Less Valley; more mid-America(forbes.com)
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Big budget syndrome. If you've got $200 million to make a movie, the bridges MUST blow up. Bloomberg stands alone among U.S. media companies as a place with lots of available cash for whatever projects catch the top folks' fancy.
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Theranos has at least two mainstream venture funds among its investors. These funds have limited partners, most of which are fairly famous institutions (including big-name universities). These LPs hate to see their money squandered -- and t
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by GCA10 11y ago
Add Theranos's governance issues to the list, too. Most Valley startups make do with non-famous directors who hold VC/angel stakes -- and are prone to riding management hard about real or imagined problems with the business. That
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Stage of life makes all the difference here. Higher-tax, higher-services economies are a really good deal for people at the beginning or end of their earnings curves (college/early 20s or 60s/70s.) As the author points out, you ge
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Them, too. The amount of false flattery in the world is really getting out of control.
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The reputation services are actually rather entertaining to watch. I write a lot online, and a couple years ago, my older posts started attracting dozens of comments from a couple people who seemed to be in a frenzied hurry to get visible.
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The phone belonged to San Bernardino County, which was quite happy to have the FBI get to work on it. Syed Farook had been authorized to use the phone, but only under the county's terms. If it had been Farook's phone, and if his s
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by GCA10 11y ago
Traditionally, yes. But the PE guys now have big enough funds that they need to broaden their thinking about what kinds of companies might be appropriate for their own special kind of love. Also, the way PE finances are set up, the general
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by GCA10 11y ago
Bear in mind that Erickson's original research involved classical musicians. They're competing in a field where high standards were largely defined 150 years ago. Those standards have stayed remarkably similar. If you want to be a
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The "expert beginner" concept almost gets it right, but it needs a little tweaking. The key insight is that growth stalls out when people lock into a sub-par set of habits ... and then spend years perfecting this not-so-good appro
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by GCA10 11y ago
Hmmn. These sorts of interviews are always flawed. Either they're done by someone with an agenda, or they're done by someone whose understanding of the subject is so rudimentary that he/she can't yet muster up an agenda.
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I think endorsements are actually a non-product -- sort of like the "close doors" button on the elevator. My sense is that LinkedIn doesn't use endorsements in any other dimension of the site. It's just an engagement too
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It struck me a couple years ago as a castle with 100 rooms and no hallways. It's a bit better now, but navigation still can get very tangled.
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Apple -- or any other tech company -- could probably prevail in court against a lot of the more outlandish FBI scenarios that you describe. Most appellate courts take privacy quite seriously. So does the Supreme Court, with both right- and
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by GCA10 11y ago
You're totally right about VC obligations ... but that burden exists with any kind of financing. Let's suppose my grocery store guy has a $300,000 loan from Bank of America, with interest due every month. He needs to meet payroll,
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Rhetoric aside, isn't this really just another example of "... Highlights Perils of Hard-Charging CEOs"? It's that simple. We can wander far from fast-growing startups and find the same kind of conduct anywhere in busine
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Nicely defined.
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Pretty good work! Bonus points for the big strawberries and the "giant telephone apparatus" that connects us all. Those couldn't have been obvious. Education turns out to be the hardest one to get right over long periods. Tha

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