How to Configure Your Startup Team
I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors,...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Launch Your Startup at a Major Tech Event
It’s February now. That means a slew of companies will be preparing to launch their new products or announcing their companies at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.I get asked often how to...
View ArticleThe Most Interesting Online Video Trend
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how...
View ArticleBeware of Ballers on a Budget
The other day I was at a Mercedes dealership.Unfortunately my wife was hit head on in December by a woman who lost control of her car. It was time to get a new car and my wife’s requirements were:The...
View ArticleAnnouncing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year
Let me not bury the lede. I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the...
View ArticleWe Need to Have Empathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness
Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual.I didn’t set out that way. It just happened. Lots of tragedies in the past couple of months.Aaron Schwartz. Sandy Hook....
View ArticleGoodbye Jody. You Really Were Awesome
Jody.You’re gone too early. We still had so many more times to spend together.I loved this image I saw posted by Andy Rankin. Because this is the one word that was not in your vocabulary.And it was the...
View ArticleShould Startups Announce Their Funding?
Understanding “The Funding Angle”I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. I think many board members...
View ArticleWhither MBA Mondays
I have been writing MBA Mondays every week since January 2010. There have been roughly 160 MBA Mondays posts to date. It is a substantial body of work. I have no clue how many words I have written on...
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Xbox Live Is Turning Into HBO
A British independent film has become the first film to have its premiere on the Xbox 360 games console.Instead of being released to the cinema, Pulp, a film set in the world of comic book publishing,...
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This Database Could Save Education In America
March 3 (Reuters) - An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares.But the most influential new...
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Apple Just Lost $450 Million
A judge cut $450 million from a $1 billion award to be paid by Samsung in a landmark patent lawsuit from Apple, saying a jury had wrongly calculated the damages.US District Judge Lucy Koh affirmed the...
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These Hobbies Are Going To Turn Into Tech's Next Huge Industries
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten yearsMany breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent...
View ArticleStaying Great
I move onward, the only direction Can’t be scared to fail in the search of perfection—Jay-Z, On to the Next OneAs CEO, you know that you cannot build a world-class company unless you maintain a...
View ArticleFormer DC Mayor Adrian Fenty Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Special Advisor
This is a guest post by Margit Wennmachers, partner at Andreessen Horowitz.Today we broaden our firm’s expertise with the appointment of our second special advisor, Adrian Fenty. Adrian is best known...
View ArticleOne on One
It’s funny because it’s been on my mind lately Having a dope beat, dope idea.. Sixteen bars ain’t enough! How the f*ck can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse?—Rick Ross, SixteenAfter I wrote...
View ArticleRevolution at the Edge
This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. It’s a start, a work of art To revolutionize make a change nothing’s strange People, people we are the same No we’re not the...
View ArticleA Good Place to Work
It’s just another mutherf*ckin’ day for Dre, so I begin like this No medallions, dreadlocks, or black fists Just that gangsta glare with the gangsta raps—Dr. Dre, Let Me RideAt Opsware I used to teach...
View ArticleKingpins Night at Bowlmor
InSITE is one of my favorite organizations in the NYC tech community. They bring together graduate students at various schools around NYC (business, law, engineering, computer science, design and PhD...
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Google Has The Chinese Government Very Worried
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc has too much control over China's smartphone industry via its Android mobile operating system and has discriminated against some local firms, the technology ministry...
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