HauteLook Founder Launches SoleSociety.com
Brett Markinson was one of the founders of the popular fashion flash sale website Hautelook.com, which was acquired by Nordstrom in March 2011. Brett is now launching SoleSociety.com - a new direct to...
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Actually Sorkin, You're Dead Wrong About Facebook's CFO
Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for The New York Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of Facebook. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong. Have you ever...
View ArticleShould raising money be a blood sport?
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s missive on mistakes made in the Facebook IPO has given rise to some strong emotions. While Andrew sought to lay much of blame at the feet of Facebook’s CFO, some others (here and...
View ArticleDoes Open Conflict With Making Money?
We had a good chat hanging around Zander's desk yesterday about this line from Matthew Ingram's post on his love/hate relationship with Twitter: Lastly, I hate that Twitter’s metamorphosis seems to...
View ArticleWhat Newspapers And Other Media Could Learn From Reddit
Although it has a pretty wide following within a certain community of geeks and web natives, Reddit achieved another whole level of mainstream status recently when President Obama agreed to do one of...
View ArticleWill Twitter’s Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out?
This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors.One was an argument that it’ll likely fail in its bid to become a public company. The logic went like...
View ArticleiPhone 5. Because Of Reasons.
It turns out we may have been over-thinking it.If the invite sent out this morning by Apple is any indication, the next iPhone is likely to be called the “iPhone 5″. No, it doesn’t technically make...
View ArticleHow to Get a $10 Starbucks Gift Card for $5
Want more Starbucks coffee and pastries for your money? Well then, you are in luck. Get a $10 Starbucks Gift Card for just $5 thanks to your friends at Yipit Blog. With this Starbucks Card eGift, try...
View ArticleFast, Fair, and Frictionless Content Licensing On The Internet (continued)
Last month I posted two back to back suggestions for industry self regulation on the issue of copyrights and the Internet. The first was a competitive market for third party whitelist and blacklists....
View ArticleThe 11th 11th
This year, for the first time, I feel nothing drawing me to go to the World Trade Center on the anniversary of the attacks. Perhaps that’s because, after last year’s anniversary, I went to the finally...
View ArticleWhy I WIll Buy the iPhone 5
Every time I think I will not pay the early-adopter penalty and BOLD just this once NOT buy BOLD whatever product Apple announces on the day of the announcement (I have often been discovered wildly...
View ArticleDon't Freak Out About Facebook's Mobile-Ad Revenue
News outlets breathlessly reported last week that Twitter was projected to overtake Facebook in mobile-ad revenue for 2012. But they missed the bigger picture. Twitter is projected to generate $129.7...
View ArticleWhy The Social Media Revolution Is About To Get A Little Less Awesome
In the wake of Facebook's disappointing IPO, Paul Graham, the cofounder of the country's most famous and successful tech incubator, Y Combinator, sent an email to his portfolio companies predicting a...
View ArticleWhy The iPhone 5 Launch Will Be The "Biggest Upgrade In Consumer Electronics...
I can all but guarantee that you're nowhere near as jazzed about it as Topeka Capital analyst Brian White, who says that the iPhone 5 launch will be the "biggest upgrade in consumer electronics...
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After Its Major Victory Against Samsung, Apple Is Going After A.pl.
Apple, fresh from a patent victory against South Korean rival Samsung, has turned its sights on a smaller target - Polish online grocery website A.pl. The Polish patent office said on Tuesday the U.S....
View ArticleAnother Amazing Fitbit Weight Loss Story
I met Andy Swan at Lindzonpalooza in San Diego this year. Andy towers over me (he’s 6′ 9″) and I’m always attracted to people who make me (at 6′ 1″) feel short. Among other things, he’s got a super...
View ArticleFounder Collective II
We are excited to announce <a href=”http://epaley.posterous.com/founder-collective-ii”>Founder Collective II</a>! We’ve closed a $70MM fund and will be pursuing the same seed-funding...
View ArticleVanity milestones
Eric Ries uses the phrase “vanity metrics” to refer to metrics that founders cite to demonstrate progress but that are actually false signals. A related concept is “vanity milestones”: achievements...
View ArticleKimpton’s Wifi Network: Pay or Register
I have written before about business’ clever usage of free wifi networks (example of Philz Coffee who lands users on their Facebook Page). Here is another good one. I am in the lobby of a NYC Kimpton...
View ArticleSteve Jobs legacy: he personally brought Siri to Apple, saw that Siri had a...
How does Silicon Valley and Apple miss Steve Jobs? Well, on Monday night I was having dinner with Gary Morgenthaler, who was one of the investors in Siri, along with a few Siri team members and I...
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