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You Are Not Your Name and Photo: A Call to Re-Imagine Identity(wired.com)
2 points by cienrak 15y ago|0 comments
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Groupon Scales IPO Way Back: Hopes for $12.5 B. Valuation(online.wsj.com)
9 points by cienrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
Everyone in the boat!
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by cienrak 15y ago
Naval sees one small slice of a very large market. Given the bleak macro economic picture, funding has probably fallen on Angel List, where a lot of doctors, lawyers, and non techie investors look for deals. But the overall picture for earl
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by cienrak 15y ago
Funny footage of PG speaking at YC NYC in this video.
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What It's Really Like To Pitch Lerer Ventures(betabeat.com)
32 points by cienrak 15y ago|13 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
Would it bother you if he had shifted into a management role? Or just less inspiring.
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by cienrak 15y ago
The crowd applauded this bout of honesty, and Mr. Jobs continued. "You look at the farm that's been created with all these different animals going in different directions and it doesn't add up. The total is less than the sum of the parts. W
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Steve Jobs and The Value of Saying No(betabeat.com)
236 points by cienrak 15y ago|2 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
Does the editor in chief need to be the center of attention? Maybe he can just hire great talent. I guess the real question is how much less information/scoops they will have with Mike and MG gone.
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by cienrak 15y ago
Right but why not use the local schools who have better resources and roots here?
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by cienrak 15y ago
How are these terms different than what goes on with YC and StartFund? Better or worse?
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TechStars Raises Fresh $24 M, Offers New Startups $100K Each(betabeat.com)
141 points by cienrak 15y ago|36 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
Probably a little from column A, little from column B. No great empire is built without a burying a few bodies, but it seems like the skeletons Mr. Ceglia wants to shake loose don't hold together in the light of day.
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by cienrak 15y ago
The link points to an article demonstrating how people who play Magic the Gathering are marginalized by mainstream society. The freelance programmer who wrote this piece is not Jon Finkel, a full time Magic the Gathering and poker pro. Try
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by cienrak 15y ago
Interesting note. Andy Weissman and John Borthwick are both alumni of Wesleyan University. USV co-founder Brad Burnham is from Wesleyan. A strong community of liberal arts educated folks making big waves in the New York tech scene, both on
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Innovating Developer Culture At Foursquare & Etsy(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by cienrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
The winner from this group receives the Disrupt Cup and $50,000, taking over possession from Disrupt New York winner Getaround. Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. And the winner is…Shaker! Disclosure: TechCrunch founder M
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by cienrak 15y ago
So is it a problem that Fred Wilson blogged for months about Kickstarter before revealing that he was an investor?
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by cienrak 15y ago
Does this apply to folks with personal blogs like Fred Wilson and Mark Suster or just big corporate blogs like TechCrunch and GigaOm?
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The NY Times Shouldn't Throw Stone at Arrington(poynter.org)
2 points by cienrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
“We reached a certain point where I realized we had this mature product, kind of running under its own steam, and while we continue to improve and update it, we could take eight people off of FogBugz,” Mr. Spolsky added. Those eight employe
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by cienrak 15y ago
Mike Arrington has played his "nuclear card" Nowhere in the extensive coverage of Crunchfund or the op-ed scolding by David Carr did the NY Times mention that it was an investor in True Ventures. Ironically, the NY Times even lumped GigaOm
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by cienrak 15y ago
Disagree. Arrington will have a powerful personal blog. But now he gets to have his cake and eat it to. He leaks intel to his former staffers at TC to cover. He writes occasionally as an unpaid blogger. And he runs Crunchfund without any co
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by cienrak 15y ago
This is good news. Erick is a great reporter without all the conflicts of Arrington.
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by cienrak 15y ago
So this is a triple "non date"? That sounds like it has a lot of potential to be awkward. What kind of social engineering goes into picking the people?
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The End of TechCrunch Would Be a Good Thing(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
63 points by cienrak 15y ago|15 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
I wonder if startups accepted into GA will have a standing offer for funding like YC folks? This seems to be about education, so perhaps the dealflow is implicit via goodwill from the funding. As GA co-founder Brad Hargreaves wrote, " When
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by cienrak 15y ago
For anyone who's interested, here is Kogeto CEO and Dot camera co-creator Jeff Glasse doing his stand-up comedy routine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LuQSCUcMgk
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by cienrak 15y ago
Build it and they will come.

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