Real Estate Tech Company Announces Mobile Solution for MLS Long Island
A downtrodden economy and a nasty property bubble have thrown the real estate industry on rocky terrain in recent years, but new mobile technologies could be the industry’s saving grace. When it comes...
View ArticleShareholder’s Best Interests
To me it’s kinda funny, the attitude showing a n***a driving But don’t know where the fuck he’s going, just rolling—Easy E, “Straight Outta Compton”Recently, major shareholders and board members of...
View ArticleHere's The Secret To Building A Great Startup Team
You can't build a successful startup all by yourself. While some may be tempted to hire a group of friends to help, that usually ends friendships just as quickly as it does businesses.Think about your...
View ArticleLarry Lessig, Corruption, Tumblr, and The Supreme Court
Professor Larry Lessig has submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in a case arguing that limiting large political contributions is Constitutional and exactly what the Framers had in mind when they used...
View ArticleIf you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace
If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpaceA few months ago I wrote about an entrepreneur, Sam Rosen, whom we brought on as an EIR at Upfront Ventures.I would have liked to have been even more Upfront with you...
View ArticleEric Schmidt Wants To Drop ~$50 Million On A London Mansion But He Can't Find...
You know how it is. You've got £30m-£50m to spend on a home and you can't find a thing that's suitable. That's the bizarre situation the world's super wealthy now find themselves in, as a result of the...
View ArticleIs @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?
If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.”From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s...
View ArticleWhy Founders Can’t Afford to Have Any Weak Links
As I have argued before, a few key people in every organization can make a huge difference on its success. Even for very large companies or even at a citywide level.But that doesn’t forgive the CEO,...
View ArticleHow Do you Motivate Yourself and Stay Focused?
Look, if you had, one shot Or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted In one moment Would you capture it, or just let it slip? [Eminem, Lose Yourself]I’ve often said that to run a startup...
View ArticlePutting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses
It’s stunning to me how quickly we take for granted certain conveniences in our lives that go from Eureka to minimum expectation.Take OpenTable.In the old days we used to call a restaurant to book. The...
View ArticleHow Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?
CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial. A CEO should tell her staff everything! Right? Right?!?Of course not.It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total...
View ArticleIf you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace
If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpaceA few months ago I wrote about an entrepreneur, Sam Rosen, whom we brought on as an EIR at Upfront Ventures.I would have liked to have been even more Upfront with you...
View ArticleMy Avatar
My friend Howard is in town and he's going to come by my office today to see me. It got me thinking about the good old days at Wallstrip and all the fun we had. And how that led to the avatar I use...
View ArticleHere's What We Loved About Business Class On The 'New American Airlines'
Editor's Note: This Jaunted story originally ran in March, when American Airlines put the new 777-300ER into service.Since most people haven't yet had to chance to ride in the refreshed plane, we...
View ArticleThis New Chrome Feature Will Spare You Incredible Frustration By Showing...
Google on Monday released a new Chrome Beta that indicates exactly which tab that annoying audio is coming from. If, like me, you constantly have more than ten or fifteen tabs open at a time, then you...
View Article4 Signs You Might Be A Terrible Leader
As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction...
View ArticleSamsung Says It Will Supply Half Of The Smartphones In Africa This Year
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics expects to supply half of the smartphones sold in Africa this year and aims to double these sales on the continent in 2014, an executive said.Africa has a...
View ArticleMobile Is Eating The World (continued)
This isn't the first post I've written with this headline. That was here. But both of the posts are about slide decks I saw.I was looking at Henry Blodget's Future of Digital 2013 deck this morning and...
View ArticleA New Hacking Tool Could Make Healthcare.gov Even More Dysfunctional
The Healthcare.gov exchange website has had a rocky launch— to put it mildly.But in addition to network congestion and poor coding, the embattled site now faces another threat: a distributed...
View ArticleSmartphones Are Fundamentally Changing Human Sexuality
There is brand loyalty, and then there is go-to-bed-with-you, wake-you-up-in-the-morning, use-the-bathroom-with-you, stare-longingly-at-each-other-for-hours-at-a-time-every-single-day-of-your-life...
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