Published via T: 2015-10-20 23:27:04

Most letters from a parent contain a parents own lost dreams disguised as good advice. My good advice to you is to pay somebody to teach you to speak some foreign language, to meet with you two or three times a week and talk. Also: get somebody to teach ...

Published via T: 2015-10-20 23:19:28

And dont make stuff because you want to get famous -- because you will never feel famous enough, And dont make stuff because you want to get famous because you will never feel famous enough,

Published via T: 2015-10-18 16:15:42

This morning, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced hes laying off 336 employees, but would do so with the utmost respect for each and every person. Also this morning, Twitter engineer Bart Teeuwisse woke up, checked his phone, and learned t...

Published via L: 2015-10-14 15:49:11

Lets take this time to express our gratitude to all of those who are leaving us. We will honor them by doing our best to serve all the people that use Twitter. We do so with a more purpose-built team, which well continue to build strength into over time...

Published via T: 2015-10-11 22:29:43

"We appreciate Randy's tireless commitment to the University of Maryland," athletic director Kevin Anderson said in a statement. "This was a difficult decision, but ultimately this is the best course of action for our football program moving forward."

Published via T: 2015-10-11 22:26:31

Sarkisian was not in attendance at the Trojans' practice on Sunday afternoon. A player told ESPN's Shelley Smith via text that Sarkisian "showed up lit to meetings again today."

Published via T: 2015-10-07 21:24:45

"Anyone who wants to be here now has a shot to be here," MIT President L. Rafael Reif said. "They have a chance to prove in advance that they can do the work."

Published via T: 2015-09-21 14:05:25

"I am so sorry for not thinking about the bigger picture in the heat of the battle and competition. I was trying my hardest for my team and put the single match and the point that could be earned ahead of sportsmanship and the game of golf itself!

Published via T: 2015-08-22 21:02:31

Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler were on a train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday when a man armed with an automatic rifle and a box cutter started attacking passengers. Sadler was visiting Stone, 23, an Air Force airman first class stat...

Published via T: 2015-08-21 17:29:24

Published via T: 2015-08-20 14:52:20

There wasnt yet a Lean Startup, nor a Startup Owners Manual. Four Steps to the Epiphany had been written in 2005, but had I known about it, I would have been too stubborn to read it. At this point, my idea of how great products were built was based on ...

Published via T: 2015-08-20 14:46:05

Shes now a contender for the team that will represent the United States at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. She trains with Alpha Aquatics and is coached by Venezuelan Olympian Octavio Alesi, and American Olympian Rada Owens.

Published via T: 2015-08-20 14:04:38

One eye-popping number is the $13.7 million spent on outside services--almost as much as Snapchat spends on its payroll. Its unclear what sort of spending that category includes--it often refers to professional expenses like consultants, accountants, a...

Published via T: 2015-08-16 23:55:15

The $1 billion -- double what George W. Bush raised for his library and its various programs -- would be used for what one adviser called a digital-first presidential library loaded with modern technologies, and to establish a foundation with a worldwid...

Published: 2015-08-16 23:49:56

Oh, and he also saved the auto industry, stabilized the housing market, and oversaw the expansion of marriage equality to the entire nation.

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:57:12

Perhaps to counterconcerns over iPhone sales and China, Apple this week released numbers related to the App Stores growth that demonstrate the very real impact China is having on its app ecosystem and developer community. The company said that, in July...

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:51:55

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:46:28

This week saw a very public meltdown from Tinders Twitter handle @Tinder. Reacting to a Vanity Fair article in which the app was branded a originator of the dating apocalypse, Tinder tweeted a number of dubious facts, claiming that the app had led to a...

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:40:04

Users complain that mobile shopping experiences are frustrating and inconvenient, Yamartino wrote, describing the opportunity. Since Pinterest is one of the places where shopping starts, were in a unique position to offer a killer commerce experience ...

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:37:14

Periscopes live streaming capability is increasingly becoming a bigger magnet for copyright takedown requests. Since its launch in late March, the number of requests has increased dramatically from fewer than 20 in April to nearly 1,000 in June. Perisco...

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:34:38

The Community Cloud allows businesses to build sites where customers can interact with the company and with each other. By introducing the ability to make purchases directly from those communities, Mike Stone, the senior vice president of marketing for Sa...

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:31:58

Pilot encounters with drones are on pace to at least quadruple to more than 1,000 this year, highlighting a growing threat to U.S. aviation by unmanned aircraft.

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:29:56

Dark Webs drug market is still just as robust as it was during the Silk Roads heyday. In fact, according to a new study, its now moving well over $100 million of illegal substances a year, and its recovering from every new scam-induced setback and gov...

Published via T: 2015-08-16 21:23:09

Harvin told Dunne he felt the other Seahawks receivers viewed him as a threat, rather than a teammate.

Published via T: 2015-08-15 21:13:17

When she called Airbnb, its employees would not give her the address and would not call the police. Instead, they gave her a number for the Madrid police and told her to ask the police to call the company for the address. But the number led to a recording...

Published via T: 2015-08-15 20:17:21

The reason is not just that people can't find you. For companies with mobile apps, especially, having the right domain name is not as critical as it used to be for getting users. The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weaknes...

Published via T: 2015-08-15 20:10:13

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. Yet failure smells. It smells in a way that when I try to explain why I believe in this entrepreneur or buying this company rational people always start with, yeah, but

Published via T: 2015-08-15 20:02:10

Last week, I visited payments company Square and sat down with itsHardware Lead, Jesse Dorogusker, about much more than hardware. Dorogusker, a former director of engineering at Apple, discussed with me how the company has evolved to much more than a don...

Published via T: 2015-08-15 19:59:05

Soothe, which sends massage therapists to clients homes, is smoothing its expansion with $10.6 million in new funding. The startups new round was led by The Riverside Company and will be used to hire key employees, improve its platforms technology, and...

Published via T: 2015-08-15 19:57:02

Following the pause in operationsof Zirtual, founder and CEO Maren Donovan published a blog post last night offering a few more details about what went wrong. She also announced that shes made a deal to sell Zirtual to startup launch platform Startups...

Published via T: 2015-08-15 19:55:21

Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the maker of WeChat, has pinned down a strategic investment with indoor mapping startup sensewhere. The total amount of the deal was undisclosed, but the companies said that Tencent now has a license to use sensewheres ind...

Published via T: 2015-08-15 19:53:15

What does this mean for someone with an interesting idea that lives well beyond the confines of Silicon Valley? Borders no longer exist in the world of innovation, and I think it is very safe to say that the next big idea will likely not come from the lab...

Published via T: 2015-08-15 19:50:02

What are the pros and cons of Google reorganizing itself as Alphabet? Well, Larry gets to play with the future, Google can focus on more ambitious projects, and it could help the company retain top talent. But will the independent Alphabet company CEOs ge...

Published via F: 2015-08-12 16:40:45

"The Republican Party requires that all their presidential candidates conform to consensus," he said. "If you don't agree with every platform of the party, not only are you called a RINO, a 'Republican in Name Only.' You are considered unelectable in prim...

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Published via T: 2015-01-13 19:56:24

Jonathan D. Sokoloff, Managing Partner Jon joined LGP in 1990. Previously Jon was a Managing Director in corporate finance at Drexel, which he joined in 1985. Prior to Drexel, Jon was a Principal of Hambrecht & Quist, and prior to that, he was with Woo...

Published via F: 2014-12-04 12:23:10

The Dutch Got It All Figured Out! 1. Called people a whore (to their face)."Ja, hoor!" "Nee, hoor!""Momentje,hoor!"3 months in, it still makes me chuckle every time. 2. Arrived at a party at 2pm and left at 6pm.It's not strange at all toset a time...

Published via F: 2014-12-04 11:48:49

Those kinds of emotions have turned the past few months of the year into a flavor derby, with companies putting ever-expanding variations of cinnamon, gingerbread and peppermint in everything from pumpkin pie ChapStick to peppermint Pringles. Lisa Hanock...

Published via L: 2014-11-21 02:48:00

Wow - this is a funny little battle between some very big enterprise software names: IBM and Apple teaming up against Microsoft and Windows 10. Going to be very interesting to see how these big boys roll out their combined and respective products in this ...

Published: 2014-11-21 02:39:16

This is a list ofknown firms andindividuals with a home base or whose focus includes Southern California. It includes Accelerators, Angels, Corporate VCs, Family Offices, HedgeFunds, Seed Funds and Traditional VCs. List of Investors and Backers Who Ar...

Published via T: 2014-11-21 02:05:48

Another amazing LA-based company, which is hitting it out of the park. Another great example of LA co's knowing how to monetize and look at markets slightly different. Well done inMarket. Well done DiPaola's.

Published via F: 2014-11-20 19:28:05

It's about time Foursquare -- killing 1st gen foursquare should have been done 3-4 years ago. Splitting company into 2 app's is fine, but I see no future for Swarm. So the future is bet on "new Foursquare" as a competitor to Yelp, which has been a laggard...

Published via F: 2014-11-20 02:33:03

For those of you who have followed Rap Genius (now called Genius.com) -- are you surprised at this outcome? I can't imagine the A16 discussions / screaming matches with these guys! Must have been fun to be in the room. Yes, Andreessen Horowitz invested $1...

Published via T: 2014-11-20 02:23:35

Ashton Kutcher waded into the Uber discussion today - he said on Twitter, "What is so wrong about digging up dirt on shady journalist [sic]." Kutcher is wrong on so many levels! First, how do we now define "a shady journalist?" When is it "dirt" and "NOT...

Published via F: 2014-11-19 19:41:50

In #SantaMonica, #Waze has been dead wrong so many times. For surface street alternatives, If you know your neighborhood and you know your time of day (unless there is an accident), Waze is no longer providing me with any value. Residents in LA who wish t...

Published via F: 2014-11-19 19:34:08

Travis Kalanick is making it so easy for people to "strongly dislike" and "NOT USE" Uber. And this isn't ev en bringing up the ridiculous unpredictable and overpriced product Uber offers. Six trips to and from LAX and six prices ranging greater than 30% a...

Published: 2014-10-08 17:16:25

The Reference Design Kit (RDK) is a pre-integrated software bundle that provides a common framework for powering customer-premises equipment (CPE) from TV service providers, including set-top boxes, gateways, and converged devices. The RDK was created to ...

Published: 2014-09-27 13:25:33


Published: 2014-09-23 22:12:45

The problem with Yelp apps was how that age-screening mechanism worked or more accurately, didnt work. People who registered on the app were asked for a date of birth, but regardless of what they entered, the Yelp app allowed them to sign up and gave ...

Published: 2014-09-19 04:33:22

Whatever you're in the mood for, SUBWAY has a wide variety of Subs, salads, and sides to choose from.Every one of our Subs is made fresh in front of you, exactly the way you want it!

Published: 2014-09-19 04:31:00


Published: 2014-09-17 14:14:03

Netflix's blistering rate of growth continued in the fourth quarter of 2013. More than 2.3 million new American households signed up for the streaming service, its best quarterly performance in three years.

Published: 2014-07-24 15:45:43

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Published via G: 2014-06-05 20:18:26

According to the CEO of GM -- GM is NOT GUILTY of Conspiracy. However, we are guilty of a "pattern of incompetence and neglect." WOW. That's just stunning to hear one of the great co's of America say they are just "plain stupid and ignorant." GM is so stu...

Published via F: 2014-06-05 18:49:08

According to the CEO of GM -- GM is NOT GUILTY of Conspiracy. However, we are guilty of a "pattern of incompetence and neglect." WOW. That's just stunning to hear one of the great co's of America say they are just "plain stupid and ignorant." GM is so stu...

Published via G: 2014-06-01 19:04:33

Donald Sterling must have lent Chahal his shovel because now Chahal is digging his hole even deeper. Gurbaksh Chahal is the most clueless and irreverent ex-CEO in the tech sector. He hit and beat a woman 117 times, which was captured on video and he has t...

Published via L: 2014-05-27 16:27:44

The US is denying visas to Chinese Nationals to attend either or both the Defcon and Black Hat conferences. Jeff Moss , the founder of these two conferences is not pleased b/c he sells videos of the sessions anyway. He says this is just a symbolic / polit...

Published via G: 2014-05-23 18:15:55

Jurgen Klinsmann's son, Jonathan Klinsmann is in deep trouble with daddy! Poor reflection of the Klinsmann character!

Published via T: 2014-05-22 19:14:07

Ripples from the David Kahn days -- Kevin Love is paying MN Timberwolves back for hiring an incompetent GM. Kahn will cost MN Kevin Love. Kahn is also the same guy who drafted 3 point guards in 1 draft - Rubio, Flynn and Lawson. Kahn was unbelievably BAD!...

Published via G: 2014-05-22 18:51:38

OUCH!!

Published via L: 2014-05-22 18:48:59

Three reasonably young men dying or committing suicide in 18+ months is crazy. What is going on in Las Vegas! That Zappos Happy Train has a hit a serious bump in the road.

Published via F: 2014-05-18 14:48:02

California is not normally the major leagues of horse racing but this year IT IS!! California Chrome puts California horse racing on the front front pages. 2nd Most inspirational story (after Devon Walker / New Orleans Saints) with a 77 year old Trainer i...

Published via F: 2014-05-18 14:31:07

By far the story of Devon Walker is the most inspirational of the week. Paralyzed in a 2012 football game, he has continued to be an inspiration and a leader. You have set the standard very high for all of us. The New Orleans Saints just signed him to a c...

Published: 2014-05-14 21:39:32

Forget the Sports Illustrated Jinx - the Moreno jinx has to be discussed. Anyone that Arte Moreno pays "big" money to goes straight into the dumper. First Pujols, who prior to Moreno was one of the top 5 hitters of all-time. Then Josh Hamilton signs a hug...

Published via F: 2014-05-14 17:57:05

Jerry Sloan 2.0 - John Stockton = great potential coach. Hire this man right now Utah Jazz!!

Published via F: 2014-05-12 17:21:37

Donald Sterling needs for somebody to take his shovel away (again)! He keeps digging his hole deeper. And he wants forgiveness!! Not the way to get it!

Published via G: 2014-05-09 18:43:37

Now this is interesting -- what will Science do with Delicio.us. Originally the brain child of Joshua Schacter. Sold three times now and over a decade old. Delcio.us is now unofficially the Freddy Krueger of Internet solutions. Can't kill it. Michael Jone...

Published via L: 2014-05-06 23:48:54

A Great Exit for Convertro and Jeff Zwelling! Well done. Also another bit of good news for the LA / Santa Monica startup ecosystem. $101 mm exit makes some money for the Northern CA investors and definitely makes some money for the Convertro team.

Published via F: 2014-05-05 22:23:28

Oregon State's AD has fired Craig Robinson, brother in law to the POTUS. I have two predictions for the future: (1) Federal Funding to OSU drops and (2) audits rain down from the skies on the University leadership. Of course, I think I am joking, but you ...

Published: 2014-04-29 15:38:44

Why get up in the morning if you are afraid of failure. Just let the incumbents runs your life, your schedule and your pay scale... No Exit by Lewis-Kraus is not new to anyone who has been around the block. All any of us can do is keep fighting the good f...

Published: 2014-04-28 16:49:22

Regime change in professional sports! Couldn't happen to a more perfect candidate! Sterling deserves the ouster! Well orchestrated Magic / Guggenheim. Sterling made it so easy. Put a pretty woman in front of him. Just let him open his mouth honestly! The ...

Published via T: 2014-04-28 02:38:38

Elon Musk, CEO and founder of SpaceX, announced Friday that SpaceX is filing suit against the Federal Government to protest and break the US Air Force's awarding of lucrative launch contracts for high priority national security satellites to a sole rocket...

Published via T: 2014-04-28 02:32:01

In the defense post, Chahal blames the victim, the police, and the District Attorney's office. He claims security footage from his penthouse apartment that allegedly showed him hitting and kicking the victim 117 times in half an hour is exaggerated.

Published via G: 2014-04-24 18:23:08

Mark Cuban is 100% right about failure being the best teacher and the most painful one! However, one lesson I have learned is that most of us don't see the same set of facts and circumstances again. So while we don't make that same mistake again, we do ma...

Published via G: 2014-04-22 04:01:15

Tyrone Corbin was undefeated (8-0) with me as his point guard at BC Camp Summer of 1986 in Milledgeville, GA. That was Tyrone Corbin's first head coaching job!! Unfortunately the only reason, he was coaching us was because we were 0-8 for the legendary Do...

Published via G: 2014-04-17 16:06:28

All social sharing is dominated by FB = 43%; Twitter in 2nd = 26% and Pinterest = 24%. What is very surprising is that when social sharing is linked to eCommerce, then these statistics change in a very interesting way with Pinterest = 40%; FB = 39% and T...

Published via F: 2014-04-10 14:21:35

Carl Icahn is the only guy who can wage war (against eBay) and turn Marc Andreessen into collateral damage.

Published via G: 2014-04-08 22:42:28

Patent Stats 2013 - interesting to note: the State of CA had 77,000 patent app's filed last year - by far the tops. State of WA had 14,000 (how many of them were MSFT and Amazon)? Shunpei Yamazaki as an inventor had 360 issuances in 2013. IBM had over 6,8...

Published via L: 2014-04-08 22:37:49

Absolutely worth reviewing if you have any interest in patents.

Published via G: 2014-04-08 19:00:42

Anti-Poaching has never been uglier! The facts and evidence are super-ugly. Google, Apple, Intel and others all implicated. Anti-trust violation by Apple, Google, etc., except Facebook (Zuckerberg / Sandberg are golden!). Clear violation/breach by Apple, ...

Published: 2014-03-28 00:03:36

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Published via G: 2014-03-27 20:27:41

Very simply put - this study - that giving away even small amounts of money - can trigger happiness is wonderful and fantastic. In a series of experiments, weve found that asking people to spend money on others from giving to charity to buying gifts f...

Published via T: 2014-03-24 20:11:15

One man's opinion on what it takes to be a Unicorn in the world of eCommerce. Greg Bettinelli has a list of five that he wants to see in a startup before projecting potential unicorn status! It's worth a look.

Published via T: 2014-03-24 03:44:04

Mark Cuban has worded his criticism of the NFL in such a way and over a period of years that he "almost" can't be wrong. If ratings go down at all, then he's right. But given the NFL's powerful ratings draw, the NFL "has" to expand! I must say that the NB...

Published via G: 2014-03-18 20:05:45

On Friday night I saw this story. No coincidence that this was announced around close of business on a Friday night. Nobody has the energy to get all blustery. The Administration took out the trash on a Friday night and nobody go to worked up. I guess mis...

Published via T: 2014-03-18 01:15:27

Funny how Tommy John is more well known for the revolutionary surgery performed by Dr. Frank Jobe than he is for the 288 wins (7th most for a lefty) and 164 after his surgery. Lifetime ERA of 3.34 / 2,245 strikeouts. Shouldn't it be the Jobe surgery! And ...

Published via L: 2014-03-17 16:10:38

Perfecting the consumer feedback loop is huge. Go 9th Dot. Wish you the best in your success. With 9th Dot, the goal was to create, a very simple and very consistent experience every time a customer has an ah-ha moment, Spurlock said. So whenever you...

Published via G: 2014-03-17 15:51:30

Money transfer services via web, mobile or even FB - it's about time this market gets a disruption aimed at it. Big market, huge implications upstream and downstream. Moving money, especially in mobile is going to ripple through every sector! Love seeing ...

Published via L: 2014-03-17 15:12:17

#Flow #Amazon is not killing retailers after all -- only 6% actively taking photo's of product using #Flow. Data from #ShopAdvisor says that consumers are brand sensitive; not store sensitive - not for the big stuff either; Flow being used for items betwe...

Published via G: 2014-02-14 18:21:19

Anyone care to take away this billionaire's shovel. He just keeps digging his hole deeper! I trust he realizes that his $8 billion does give him much more influence on gov't and policy than the rest of us 99%'ers!

Published via G: 2014-02-13 20:20:05

So it goes -- in the end -- there can only be 1! What a nightmare when there is just 1 cable company! If we are not pleased with the cable offering and service now, how does that get better and how do our pricing plans get better when the two biggest join...

Published via T: 2014-02-13 20:12:08

Link to German Television's Edward Snowden Interview.

Published via G: 2014-02-13 03:25:36

SOPA protests last year dramatically exceeded the NSA protests. What does that really say? I hope not as much as it feels like. To see the difference, look no further than the Google home page on the day of the SOPA protest vs. this week's NSA protests. ...

Published via L: 2014-02-13 02:41:21

Marissa Mayer is my personal favorite CEO in the entire tech space. She takes her responsibility to be aggressive and "buy" talent and companies. $10 mm acquisitions don't even have to be reported to the SEC for a company Yahoo!'s size. But even a small $...

Published via T: 2014-02-13 02:22:08

I hardly can remember so far back as when I sold technology to cable, satellite and IPTV co's. But now Aereo stands on the precipice of creating a whole new platform. If in doubt, I usually root for the disrupter!! The cable cartel deserves whatever pain ...

Published via F: 2014-02-12 22:55:11

Some good info on Big Data, cloud computing and how they all inter relates.

Published via T: 2014-02-10 01:32:50

My player manual covered this [responding to racist language], Chaney said. It said very clearly: under no circumstances can you allow these things to get under your skin. You can always find yourself being called names. We found ourselves in a better ...

Published: 2014-02-07 20:26:40

Nun Rengetsu, (Lotus Moon) 19th Century. Baka-San. 1996. Acrylic on Canvas. (18" X 24").All Copyrights Reserved.

Published: 2014-02-07 20:15:10

The Japanese name Baka-San roughly translates into English as "the honorable foolish one." One may ask why I would choose to take such a name. The answer, as with many things in Buddhism, cuts in opposite directions. During my initial exposure in the 1950...

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Published via T: 2014-02-06 01:30:49

I was lucky enough to listen to @hartmutneven at Google recently speak about Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing, including Google's work with D-Wave. So my big take-away regarding Dr. Neven's talk was -- if the D-Wave machine has 512 Qbits and ...

Published: 2014-02-06 01:11:38


Published via L: 2014-02-05 17:34:08

Net Neutrality - the story is not even close to being over. One circuit court strikes it down. Congress moves quickly to protect position on Net Neutrality. This is going to be a battle.

Published via G: 2014-02-05 17:28:42

Google's Transparency Report -- which finally includes all of the FISA requests from different Gov't Requests. Check out the attached graphic.

Published via T: 2014-02-05 17:05:58

Finally some good news about Privacy and Security for the little guys! I would very much like to see the day where SW is unhackable. Such sw packages would almost have to flood the market, much like VoIP did 15 years ago. If only a few sw programs hit the...

Published via G: 2014-02-04 21:39:17

Coupons.com files for $100 mm IPO! Well done web 1.0 survivor! What is ironic is that Coupons.com is still losing money based on $115 mm in the first 9 mo's of 2013. BTW - Re/Code is creating an entirely new blogging platform -- 65 word articles!! Talk ...

Published via G: 2014-02-04 21:31:02

Why no public flogging for IBM "trolling" against Twitter?? IBM has a patent portfolio. It has no product or service in this market space. IBM = patent troll. Please note that Twitter likely paid about $600K to $900K per patent. This deal is likely valued...

Published via T: 2014-02-03 20:51:22

Marc Benioff and Salesforce's 1/1/1 program was started when it was just Marc Benioff and a new business idea called Salesforce out of his apartment in SF. 1/1/1 is 1% of equity, 1% of profits and time - all to philanthropy. Current market cap is $35+ bil...

Published via T: 2014-02-01 17:28:26

Even the "great" Mark Cuban doesn't get it right all the time. In this case, he was the first money into Box, which is now getting ready to go public. This is a really interesting case from the perspective of -- Cuban got this perfectly right as the first...

Published via L: 2014-02-01 16:56:57

Gives new meaning to where the phrase white wine liberal comes from!! sobering new study published by the Journal of Wine Economics yes, there is a Journal of Wine Economics finds that alcohol consumption in American states rises as the population...

Published via T: 2014-02-01 16:48:53

Of course, Chris Christie knew about the lane closing on the GW Bridge. His denials are as credible as Lance Armstrong's denials. And all of us in the public KNOW, he knew. The only open question will be HOW this impacts his 2016 plans.

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Published: 2014-01-16 23:13:14

Love it! Thank you Starbucks for making it so easy for hackers to clear my virtual balance on my phone!

Published via T: 2014-01-16 01:03:38

Nice to have Andreessen take public positions. However, his making light of the numerous disclosures by Snowden re Quantum (just released today) as NO BIG DEAL is hubris. What has preceded this are the previously announced disclosures of Prism, XKeyscore,...

Published via F: 2014-01-15 17:38:29

So the latest NSA related disclosure is called Quantum -- what's less interesting about this spy technique is that the NSA relies on tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted into the computers. That's not a software intrusion - that's placing a special ...

Published via F: 2014-01-10 19:19:00

Just completed #Subway 's 1 minute survey - in 6 min's 22 seconds. #feedback #survey #fail

Published via T: 2014-01-08 22:20:01

The attached study finds that 42% of Americans identify themselves as independents. I was independent until 28. Then I decided that I wanted to participate in the Primary election process. I wanted my vote to count. So I registered as a Democrat. Just a l...

Published: 2014-01-04 07:47:15

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw

Published via T: 2014-01-02 18:36:38

Nice to see Microsoft defining the NSA as an Advanced Persistent Threat!! This article even compares them to Chinese Hackers. As both the NSA and Chinese Hackers impact US Citizens, they are quite different. At least the NSA ostensibly wears the White Hat...

Published via F: 2014-01-02 17:27:03

Virtual currencies are becoming all the rage -- like eBay submitting a patent application for a secure token. My analysis is -- if you have to file a patent to support your virtual currency, then it isn't a virtual currency and you have already failed!

Published via F: 2013-12-21 00:12:55

Cyan Banister rocks. She is so right in this article -- the reality about trying your hand as an entrepreneur is that it really is about trying to make your mark in the world. Trying to become a little more self sufficient. Even for the best, it's a terri...

Published via T: 2013-12-20 22:29:31

WebRTC is a slow rolling avalanche. Not here yet, but when it does get here watch out. The fun will be very disruptive. Whatya gunna do Webex and GTM. Oh don't worry, I know there will be a place for you at the table, but you are going to have to work har...

Published via G: 2013-12-20 17:35:02

I love seeing any example of a freely traded Chinese currency. Not quite the same but can't wait to see the Yuan ride the currency roller coaster some day. Second, the ups and downs of a highly successful startup (in this case Bitcoin) are dramatic. Imagi...

Published via T: 2013-12-18 23:56:37

A post-script to my post yesterday on Uber surge pricing and the company's lack of trust with riders. It was the most read thing on our site yesterday and a lot of Twitter debates ensued. One of th...

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Even the amazing Uber, a true unicorn in the startup world, is suffering growing pains. This lack of transparency, which is leading to a lack of trust is a pretty easy fix -- if Uber wants to fix it. Google has never disclosed its algorithm. Maybe Uber wo...

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What's interesting about the Bitcoin correct due to the Chinese Bitcoin exchange no longer accepting deposits is the closest example to a true market for Chinese currency. Imagine for a moment that the Chinese Yuan actually was subject to these same ups a...

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I listened to Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk speak here in LA a few months back. Gary Swart was a very impressive guy with a powerful track record of success. If Swart is taking a step back to serve as a Strategic Advisor, then the combination of oDesk and Elan...

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NFL hinges each week on two things: (1) final 2 min's and (2) injuries. If these two factors shine on you, then you can be worshiped and revered. If not, then consider yourself fired. Watch out Leslie Frazier! #frustratedVikingfan!

Published via G: 2013-12-12 22:18:23

One of LA's top entrepreneurs does it again -- Scott Painter raises $30 mm from Vulcan Ventures / Paul Allen. Well done True Car and Scott Painter. Side note - great to see Vulcan Ventures start investing again. Slightly sad to see that they seem to only...

Published via L: 2013-12-12 20:55:59

Every Batman has to have his Robin. Zuckerberg is now Batman and Systrom is Robin or as this article says Systrom is Mark's bitch. We should all be so unfortunate to be called Zuck's bitch. Tough job, but someone has to do it! These two guys are now maki...

Published via L: 2013-12-12 18:26:14

Kleiner Perkins rough patch goes to show how intensely competitive and tough the business of startups and venture capital is in general. Tough tough times for the legendary leader of KPC&B.

Published via G: 2013-12-12 00:46:43

Pandora's box is wide open re payments and moving money. From Square to BitCoin to Dwolla to even good old PayPal (which is the old man in the room), the world has changed. Suits like FL and IL's against Square won't stem the tide. Ironically only the NSA...

Published via L: 2013-12-10 18:52:26

PayPal putting in another $4 mm into Loop Commerce after participating in the $7 mm round in November. Now that's an interesting way to jump start innovation! No wonder Elon Musk says PayPal hasn't changed in 10 years. Oh Ebay/PayPal can't you do better t...

Published via F: 2013-12-10 18:27:24

Little known fact -- Did you know that Russell Simmons was one of Yelp's co-founders? Now to the meat: Yelp is a unicorn and its installed based will be next to impossible to unseat. The goal of any new company or competitor of Yelp is NOT to beat Yelp ...

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I know your pain @davemcclure -- but many of us really feel this way. Success is so fleeting and failure is so big! I am going to keep swinging!

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This is how Foursquare demonstrates value --- by taking things away from its Users :).

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Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology, pushed an Apple Store app update to support them and turned the feature on in 254 U.S.-based stores in an initial rollout. According to the details we know so far, some Apple stores ...

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If youre a corporate executive, this may be one of the last sentences you want to hear: Erich Spangenberg is on the line. Invariably, Mr. Spangenberg, the 53-year-old owner of IPNav, is calling to discuss a patent held by one of his clients, which he s...

Published via Inbox: 2013-07-09 18:55:27

Two pioneering inverted deal services I am keeping my eye on are LevelUp and Mogl. They attack from different angles: LevelUp uses a QR scan at the point of sale, and Mogl is linked to a card. LevelUp is positioned as allowing merchants to give customers ...

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There is no question that the software-defined networking (SDN) arena is a hotbed of new ideas, well-funded startups, and established vendor SDN architectures. However, there is a significant question about how much future revenue the SDN market can creat...

Published via Inbox: 2013-06-22 23:20:13

Damn - Jay-Z is a vampire! He's been around awhile! NY Public Library just published this photo entitled, "Harlem Loiterers." I love it! Well done NY Public Library uncovering the greatest secret conspiracy ever! That vampires never age and do exist!

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The patents that are the subject of the lawsuits are: U.S. Patent No. 7,111,232 ("the '232 Patent"), entitled Method and system for making document objects available to users of a network U.S. Patent No. 7,139,974 ("the '974 Patent"), entitled FRAMEWORK...

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Funny - whenever I "secretly" interpret the law to go my way, I get in trouble. So far with the NSA, NOT SO MUCH. Don't get me wrong, I want to be on the side of the NSA b/c they make us feel safe, but this is way, way over the line.

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Going through the above steps is important, however forgetting about what happens to all those sent and received messages afterwards is like locking your house but leaving the windows open. Emails residing on desktops, laptops and mobile devices may still...

Published via Inbox: 2013-06-17 18:54:38

INSIDE FORT MEADE, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings--the city has its own post office, fire department, and police force. But as if designed by Kafka, it sits among a forest of trees, sur...

Published via L: 2013-06-15 05:15:41

Great summary by David Holmes on the big ruling by the Supreme Court about not providing patent protection for naturally occurring human DNA. What really surprised me about this ruling is that a very conservative Sup.Ct. went 9-0 to strike down naturally ...

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However, in a Ukrainian-language memoir published in 1995, Karkoc states that he helped found the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion in 1943 in collaboration with the Nazis' feared SS intelligence agency, the SD, to fight on the side of Germany - and served as...

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Microsoft may have misled millions of Skype users around the world by making claims last year that have since been contradicted by intelligence leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. My Two Cents

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If we were to enter this into out text editor, save it and then open the file in our browser we wouldn't see anything. That is because there is no content in our form.So, what about the content that can go into an HTML form? Well, there are a few things t...

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Supreme Court makes unanimous sense -- throws out patents that are a mere isolation of naturally occurring DNA segment or a human gene. Three decades of encroachment in this area has finally been stemmed! Take that Myriad. Now let's get Monsanto kicked ou...

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No kidding. Dell wants to build a GovCloud. The dollars are enormous.

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Don't let your friends grow up to be NBA Head Coaches. Phil Jackson gets completely dissed by the Lakers b/c they think Nash will do better with D'Antoni. George Karl leads the Nuggets to Team Record 57 wins. Gone! Fired. Lionel Hollins leads his team to ...

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One one hand Richard Stallman is right that cloud computing is a trap! It is a trap at higher prices and and cloud computing lock-in. On the other Richard Stallman's approach is dinosaur-like. The benefits of cloud computing and all the abilities to scale...

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Not very well said at all Robert. In fact, poorly stated. The whole point from the Gov't side to the Tech Co's reeks of a patronizing overlord who think they know best. That's for 3rd world countries. Oh and the transparency that was promised from Obama. ...

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Snapchat the app that disappears your photos (mostly sort of). Now raising $100 million at approximately $500 million valuation. This is called the Disappearing Economy. Now if we can only get our phone calls and Internet browsing habits to disappear from...

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Right -- "Protecting America..." That's what were calling the snooping ON EVERYONE! Someone please light a match b/c this stinks!

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What is Dr. J really saying here? Is he saying that the Lakers get the better end of a deal b/c they are sneaky? Or because they are smarter? Or b/c they are deceitful? Is Dr. J saying that the league supports a conspiracy to help the big market teams? Is...

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I have rarely heard of an early stage entrepreneur, especially in the world of Software, who uses their investor raised money to file patents. Filing patents with the investors money does not in 99.9% of the time even figure into the equation for a Seed F...

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In this HuffPo story by Dave Parker, he lifts from a Sarah Lacy interview and article with Elon Musk about having "skin" in the game. Elon Musk's answer is unique beyond measure in one respect and all too common in another respect. The unique aspect of E...

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Microsoft and the FBI working hard to keep our banks safe by bringing down the Citadel botnets. Now can they help our phone co's from being hacked?

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A Service record (SRV record) is a specification of data in the Domain Name System defining the location, i.e. the hostname and port number, of servers for specified services. It is defined in RFC 2782, and its type code is 33. Some Internet protocols suc...

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If the NSA got Verizon phone records, it's fair to assume they have AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, etc. records as well. The interesting question is: What else does Section 215 of the Patriot Act allow the NSA to obtain "on an ongoing daily basis?" How about cel...

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5.1.1 Broadcast means to transmit simultaneously to the general public through any now known and unknown media and formats, including, without limitation, a data communications network, the Internet, electronic mail system, television, radio or satelli...

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Salesforce and Marc Benioff have paid a pretty penny for Exact Target (ET). Is this acquisition worth it? ET's is rightfully out of this world as one of the leaders in marketing automation. Does it deserve a 10X multiplier on gross revenue on $292 mm? Wit...

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IBM is still not buying Rackspace. This time IBM picks up Softlayer as the largest privately held hosting provider. Is MSFT going to get Rackspace? I still believe that IBM is the best place for Rackspace, but what do I know. Back to SoftLayer, what does...

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Nice to see IBM showing the love. Amazon's AWS group wins a huge contract (that nobody is talking about publicly) and IBM protests the contract. IBM's wants in on the action!! No kidding. Haven't outsiders been complaining about IBM's preferential relatio...

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The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is a communications protocol used by hosts and adjacent routers on IP networks to establish multicast group memberships. IGMP is an integral part of IP multicast. IGMP can be used for one-to-many networking a...

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13. Dallas: Michael Carter-Williams, PG, Syracuse -- Dallas has money to spend and Mark Cuban has announced he will be doing so this summer, making the Mavs a team to watch in free agency. Currently, PG is a need and drafting Carter-Williams would be an u...

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Who's going to be a HERO? Game 7 with LeBron James vs. the Indiana Pacers. LeBron averages 34 in Gm7's. Both LeBron and DWade are right about each other. LeBron says they are struggling, which is true. DWade says they need more touches, which is true. But...

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(Virtual Private LAN Service) A multipoint virtual private network (VPN) service from carriers that connects any number of Ethernet LANs together over an IP core, typically using MPLS, although other encapsulation protocols can be used. Known as a "transp...

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Frame relay services have to be provisioned with virtual circuits for each site-to-site connection. VPLS customers lease connections from each location to the carrier, and the MPLS fabric handles the routing. (Illustration drawn with assistance courtesy o...

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What next Gordon Gee? Catholics can't be trusted? Anymore than you can be trusted to put your foot in your mouth? Bret Bielema is now a thug b/c he went to the SEC? And throw Barry Alvarez under the bus when you go on one of your rants! BTW does that mean...

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Part II of the Tesla pitching VC's is just as good or better than the first. Poor VC's, they are so picked on...

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This was my question to Sir Patrick Stewart at Comicpalooza 2013. I wanted to thank Patrick Stewart for his speech at Amnesty International it personally hel...

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WhoSay is building a magazine created by the entertainers themselves. Will they really get the talent to buy in? They already have or they are off to a good start. How did they do that? It's co-founded by CAA and it is bankrolled by $12 mm from Comcast an...

Published via L: 2013-05-30 05:26:44

Addition by subtraction equals Twitter success. But that's really not true. What really seems to be true about Twitter is that they want to keep that same small footprint. Twitter is almost like a neutron star: so small and dense that it can fill you up t...

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Box is a serious, serious competitor to any and all players in the enterprise. If people didn't take Box seriously prior to the arrival of Sam Schillace, they should be getting antsy in their seat right about now. Just as important, if Sam thinks Folders ...

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How will the Liberty Reserve shut down impact BitCoin? Can anybody tell me how BitCoin doesn't become just like Liberty Reserve over time? From what I can tell, BitCoin is decentralized and P2P; while Liberty Reserve was "more" centralized (using "Exchan...

Published via L: 2013-05-29 06:00:31

Marissa Mayer is pulling a Michael Jordan on the Internet industry. Mayer is imposing her will on anybody and everybody around her. Slight overstatement, maybe. But she is buying cool in the Summly app (which was more about a 17 year overhyped wonder-chil...

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The cloud wars have only just begun. While Amazon has lapped the field (yes that means you Rackspace, VMware, Citrix, Joyent, and so many others), this has only just begun. Public cloud as an option for enterprise customers is such a huge step forward. Ju...

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Listening to John Doerr say that he needs to adapt was quite intense. I think I've never seen a billionaire so self-aware as John Doerr, but I still think "the greentech blink" is going to hold him down. Also to hear John Doerr say that words are hard fo...

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In a fireside chat with Sarah Lacy, Chris Dixon says he wishes he loved sports so that it would give his brain a break from thinking about his job.

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If you are claiming a computerized "system" of some kind in a patent application related to software or business methods, be sure to think of the claim in terms of how the PTO will examine it. Your system will probably be viewed as an apparatus and will n...

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Indoor mapping software startup Meridian, continues to evolve their product strategy with a recent update to their offering. Called Zones, the companys newest update to their indoor mapping platform and indoor is the key word here allows geo-fence s...

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Steve Outtrim has knocked the ball out of the park on numerous occasions. Having the #3 program on the Internet in 1997. Imagine that. One of the true pioneers and the first to create a successful e-Commerce business on the Internet. Stunning accomplishme...

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Lois Lerner - you are a piece of work. You say you have not broken any laws. Yet the 5th Amendment protects witnesses form being forced to incriminate themselves. Bewildered is not strong enough to describe how I felt when reading about her testimony in f...

Published via F: 2013-05-21 18:26:05

Disruption is a dangerous. On Sunday, I read about the DC Taxi Commission going after Uber. Now AirBnB is being deemed illegal by New York officials. Taking bread off somebody's table will cause major turf wars. Expect more of these conflicts to occur as ...

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Does it surprise anybody that Unit 61398 is once again hacking away at US corporate and most likely political interests. The only change will be exactly what they did this time swap out the servers and other identifying attributes. By the way, the answe...

Published via G: 2013-05-20 02:44:49

My how the world has changed. With the news that Tumblr may be snatched up by Yahoo! for over $1.1 Billion, the Tumblr users (in small pockets for now, maybe more) are showing distress and unhappiness about "their" platform being taken over by Yahoo! Now...

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What's messed up about the conflict between Uber and the DC Taxi Commission is that Uber may be headed for the same type of fate as Napster (if not careful)! Incumbent franchises / business models protecting its turf (mafioso-style). Taxi Commissions are ...

Published via L: 2013-05-16 21:07:20

I just finished reading an article by Blair Pleasant on whether Unified Communications (or UC) will end up in the Cloud. As it relates to this article, my question is whether her scope of cloud is specific to UC in the cloud or enterprises relying on clou...

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Using Google Maps today is great for what its supposed to do, get you from point A to point B. But theres a lot of information that Google collects that you never get a chance to glance it, or dont have a reason to. Google wants to give you more reason...

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Mark Suster blogging on the most simple fact that entrepreneurs already know. That No as a word doesn't exist. Why is this worthy of a post. Entrepreneurs wouldn't be entrepreneurs if they didn't know that No as a word doesn't exist. Riffing on this topic...

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With increasingly wide applications of the IP multicast technology, many industries start using IP multicast as the solution for their application deployments. At the same time, the virtual private network (VPN) technology has become more and more popular...

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Two important observations from this article featuring the vision of Dr. Vint Cerf: 1. Seeing the advent of lots of Twitter-like Services leveraging Multicast would be exciting. I would love to see the choke-hold of Twitter taken away (there can't be ju...

Published via F: 2013-05-13 16:36:21

I started following Eric Barker's blog called Barking Up The Wrong Tree. His most popular post this week "by far" according to him was related to the myth that Nice Guys Finish Last. So the debunking goes like this: 1. In money, nice guys do finish "worse...

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IBM's Smart Cloud team is going full court press on "open source" cloud. With OpenStack and with Chef and with

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IBM is such a smart company and this is especially true as it relates to its cloud strategy. Knowing that its IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise was lagging behind, IBM gets behind OpenStack and ends up adopting OpenStack as it future cloud platform for SCE. Imme...

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The attached article coming out of the OpenStack Summit in Portland, OR last month speaks to the opportunity of tying numerous independent clouds together. The idea of federated OpenStack clouds is quite compelling. Imagine IBM's Smart Cloud being seamles...

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What's interesting in this Vanity Fair story is that Kevin Systrom apparently took the train for his visit with Mark Zuckerberg. No fancy car. No town car with a driver. Not even a beat up cab. He took the train. Wow! Nicely done Mr. Systrom.

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Forbes' Connie Guglielmo writes a very insight full article on John Doerr and KPC&B. Entitled John Doerr's Plan to Reclaim The Venture Capital Throne leaves me thinking a few things. First, KPC&B was the VC equivalent of the NY Yankees. Not even the Yanke...

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Enterprise Cloud is exploding and generally there is more than enough business to go around to all of the cloud big and little players. But Ms. Darrow is right how many different Cloud OS platforms do we need? VMware, OpenStack, CloudStack, AWS's propri...

Published via F: 2013-05-07 20:52:30

Bill Gates continues to fight the power that is Apple. Whats slightly confusing for a mere mortal like myself is how Big Bill can say that the Tablet (really meaning the iPad) is frustrating Users b/c they cant type, cant create docs, and they dont h...

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BT is the quiet cloud giant. Well played BT with cloud IaaS in 45 different data centers around the world, including the 12 listed in the related article. What is interesting is the quotes around BT's 99.95% "expected" SLA availability. Now what does "exp...

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Information = Accountability. Do I really want that bowl of ice cream if it adds 0.98 lbs? Maybe, maybe not, but to be aware of the causal relationship of eating that ice cream will change people. Even right now in my head as I debate whether it's a good ...

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GE says it is using its role in Pivotal Initiative to bolster its Industrial Internet push: what does that mean? The answer is quite interesting. For GE its about using the Internet's connectedness to enhance household appliances, medical devices, and ...

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This is what Mike Shanahan should have said in support of RG III - before RG III actually tore his ACL. Well said Joakim Noah.

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I started reading this article by the NY Times thinking that it's obvious that we should be able to track cell phones and shut them off or wipe them remotely. Then I finally get to the punch line and consumer's have just as much incentives to go private a...

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Yahoo! is looking for a Senior Research Scientist, Scalable Machine Learning in New York, NY. According to the post, Machine learning and data mining are ubiquitous in Web research and standat the core of Yahoo!s products and platforms, involving impor...

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Interesting to note in this article that Richard Branson and his children "aim" to be the first non-test pilots to ride in Virgin's passenger spaceship. Richard Branson if he does take that first ride into space will be one brave man. Also he's likely to ...

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Heady comparison for Sarah Lacy to compare Sebstian Thrun to the almost incomparable Elon Musk, but when you have the self-driving car and Google Glass and now Udacity, it might be warranted. Sebastian Thrun may be the next great German!! Future Nobel Lau...

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According to this article, the latest sign that enterprise is about to "adopt" cloud is that cloud is now boring. I love it and I hate it. The premise is that since it's boring, therefore it's ok to embrace it and for the enterprise to buy its services. M...

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The Old Friend of a Friend of a Friend referral system worked for Ben Horowitz back when he was a sophomore at Columbia with a great guy named Ken Coleman according to Ben's post. This system has worked for most of us in different ways. We all need a Ken ...

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I hate to say it, but this is worthwhile. Especially after we pulled some good pearls of wisdom at the regular LAUNCH.

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If you want to file your own Trademark Application, watch this video.