Google+, Competing Via Firehose, How Much Better is Enough?
I bugged a friend of mine at Google and instantly got up and running on the new kid on the block, Google+. Of course, now I’m much cooler than you since I got in and you’re not haha – alas, I’m sure...
View ArticleSteve Jobs on Design: Explicit vs. Implicit Authority, Authority is Earned
He’s (Jony Ive) not just a designer. That’s why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There’s no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out....
View ArticleBuilding the “Apple of [fill in the blank]”
Yesterday afternoon, I reconnected with an entrepreneur on his project. He reminded me of something we discussed a while back and it re-rang a chord. That something was the fact that when we discussed...
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Envisioning the Future by Expanding One’s Horizons or VCs Should Read Sci-Fi
Today, Brad Feld tweeted this great post about science fiction and its role in prediction and driving the future. In a roundabout way, it took me back to grad school at Stanford in 1989 when I was...
View ArticleEmail Innovation Lacking, Still a Huge Opportunity, Hard to Exploit
For the last two weeks or so, I was having a ton of Mac problems. It seemed that my OS had gotten corrupted, so I thought that upgrading to OSX Lion would clean up the OS and upgrade me since I was...
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First Impressions with the Lytro
Last week I got my Lytro from pre-order in the mail and was excited to try it out in the field. I went to the California Academy of Sciences in SF to see what it could do. About the Industrial Design...
View ArticleMy Favorite Method for Naming Startups
On the 500startups forums, someone asked about how to name their startup. I thought it would be worthwhile to repost my response there, which was to detail my favorite process for brainstorming a new...
View ArticleBetaday 2013 by Betaworks
This last week I was in NYC and attended the 2013 Betaday, put on yearly by Betaworks. It was a smaller, more intimate event this year, which was more similar to the first few Betadays – only 100...
View ArticleHow to Ace Your Entrepreneur Class
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of dropping in on the Designer Entrepreneur class over at CCA. My longtime friend and colleague Christina Wodtke invited me to talk a bit about startup investing and...
View ArticleTalking It Up: Launch Capital and Betaworks Voicecamp 2017
“Alexa, turn on kitchen.” “Alexa, timer set 16 minutes.” It may seem like I’m talking to air, but I’m not; these are words I utter literally every day to my Amazon Echo in my kitchen. I’ve had my Echo...
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