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How The iPhone 5S Could Be The Universal Remote For Your Life
Imagine that your new iPhone 5S or Android smartphone could control all aspects of your life. Change channels on your TV, start your car, change the temperature in your house, pay for your coffee, the...
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Apple Doubles Down On An Incredibly Risky Strategy
For the last six years, Apple has had a simple, increasingly risky plan for selling the iPhone.Every year, the company makes only one new model, a phone that represents Apple’s platonic ideal—the one...
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Five Things Startups Shouldn't Digitize
Start Ups face a unique set of marketing challenges today. Particularly those with a digital bend.Why?Because an increasing digital divide is occurring between digital natives and digital...
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Everywhere I Look I See Jobs That Will Be Replaced By Robots
There’s a lot of discussion about whether automating people out of a job is ethical or even good for society. I’ve been called some not so nice things for suggesting that we solve the BART strike by...
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I Just Incubated A Company — It's The Most Interesting Thing I Do As A...
Incubating a company is one of the most interesting things that I do as a venture capitalist. It’s not only a lot of fun, it also puts me in the entrepreneur’s shoes which gives me perspective on how...
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Apple Isn't A Tech Company Anymore — It's A Fashion Label
When Apple launched the iPhone 4 in 2010, the company's website featured large images of the device with the text "This changes everything. Again."Change has been a constant refrain in Apple's...
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Here's Why You Love Facebook's News Feed Even If You Think You Hate It
In the time before news feed, the Web was a strange, quiet, and probably very lonely place. I say “probably” because I can barely remember the way things worked back then. After Facebook launched news...
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How Much Twitter Is Really Worth
With what looks like impeccable timing, Twitter has made its first step towards an initial public offering. The company's revenues are growing at a pace, and painful memories of Facebook's stockmarket...
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Here Are All The Reasons Why The Syria Chemical Weapons Agreement Won't Work
On Friday U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that any international peace deal ending the civil war now relies on Russia's proposal to place Syria's...
View ArticleAre Universities The New VCs?
The New Yorker has a piece on Stanford's StartX. They ask some interesting questions and end with this one:If the university is a farm, do the students become the cows?I have promoted this idea of...
View ArticleUpfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner
Today is a day I’ve waited patiently for for 5 years but more earnestly for more than 1 year. I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures.Now that he’s...
View ArticleHow the World will End: Possibilities
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for...
View ArticleFun Friday: Your Favorite Feature
I like to do two kinds of posts on Friday, Fun Friday and Feature Friday. I thought we would try something today which is to combine them. So we are going to take turns in the comments talking about...
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Ex-Google Employee: Here's What It Was Like Working At Google During Its IPO...
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Hunter on LinkedIn.Fittingly it was with a tweet that Twitter announced the filing of a S-1, the first formal step towards an IPO. The document remains...
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Pakistan Axes 'Immoral' Cell Phone Love Chat
Pakistan has cracked down on "immoral" love chat services offered by mobile phone companies, stifling hopes of illicit romance in the conservative Muslim country where dating is frowned upon.The...
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How The NSA Revelations May Actually Be Helping The US Tech Industry
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Edward Snowden's unprecedented exposure of U.S. technology companies' close collaboration with national intelligence agencies, widely expected to damage the industry's...
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The 'Net Neutrality' Debate Could Have A Huge Impact On Netflix
Debate is back on in Washington on US regulations on "net neutrality" which bar Internet broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against services or content.A court case for which arguments...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: How Large Are The Planets And The Stars?
A friend sent this video to me this week. I enjoyed it and I suspect you all will too. Best of all, it is only 2 1/2 minutes so it won't take up much of your day to watch it.Read more posts on A VC...
View ArticleThe Internet is for snacking
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of behaviors that emerged from blogs and forums, the primordial soup of...
View ArticleThe Fallacy Of Zero Sum Game Thinking
We invest in a lot of marketplaces. When they scale, we often hear complaints from early adopters, amplified by the media, that the early adopters are getting hurt by the "mainstreaming" of the...
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