June 16, 2013

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    A VC: Public Sharing vs Private Sharing

    Alexis Madrigal has an interesting post up on The Atlantic about "dark social" vs "public social" . Alexis makes the point that private sharing via email, IM, and other means drives more traffic around the web than public social services like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. Alexis makes…

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June 14, 2013

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    Rands In Repose: The Elegant Email

    For me, the amount of email that arrives is inversely proportionate to my amount of free time. This means the less time I have to read mail, the more mail that arrives. Greater minds than mine have attempted to tackle this unfortunate time management situation, so I’m going to keep it simple. You…

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June 13, 2013

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    Cataracts for Customers | Customer Commons

    Let’s say you have an iPhone, and your carrier is AT&T.* That puts you deep inside what Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) calls a confusopoly (and illustrates here ). His text explanation : A confusopoly is a situation in which companies pretend to compete on price, service, and features but in fact…

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    Exploring the Problem Space Through Prototyping

    by Jared M. Spool on September 20, 2012 Here’s a suggestion: Let’s start using the terms ‘prototype’ and ‘mockup’ to mean different things. In my opinion, they talk about different ends of the problem. A mockup shows us a possible solution. It asks the question, “What do you think of this direction…

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    Startup = Growth

    Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly foundeddoes not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessaryfor a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, orhave some sort of "exit." The only…

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May 20, 2013

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    Rethinking Sleep – NYTimes.com

    SOMETIME in the dark stretch of the night it happens. Perhaps it’s the chime of an incoming text message. Or your iPhone screen lights up to alert you to a new e-mail. Or you find yourself staring at the ceiling, replaying the day in your head. Next thing you know, you’re out of bed and engaged with…

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