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January 31, 2012
My friend Mike Harkey wrote this back in 2006 when Facebook was a 2 year old toddler of a company. Facebook only had 100 employees and 7.4 million users – while massive competitors Bebo had 23M and mySpace had 67M. Facebook ...
January 30, 2012
It’s great to see our portfolio company ROBLOX getting noticed by publications like Forbes. 20 million user accounts, almost 10 billion pageviews in 2011 – kids are playing and it’s worth reading. ...
January 30, 2012
First Round Capital portfolio company Monetate just released a very interesting infographic showing how Pinterest and other social tools are rapidly changing how people get referred to ecommerce sites. Check it ...
January 29, 2012
The issue of worker conditions in the supply chain is not new, and it’s the same for pretty much every computer and electronics manufacturer in the world. But it’s interesting to see the finger pointing at Apple just as they approach $100B in cash and re-establish their place as the world’s most valuable company. Apple ...
January 27, 2012
Someday I’ll do a post on social identity and why I have two accounts and how Twitter could massively improve private accounts. But in the meantime, here’s a fun infographic comparing my two accounts from Visual.ly. ...
January 20, 2012
If you like Michael Lewis and want to laugh and cry about the world economy and human nature, pick up Boomerang. Follow Michel to Iceland to Greece to Italy to Ireland and back to California, and if you want to try a chapter for free, California and Bust appeared in Vanity ...
January 19, 2012
Can’t wait ...
January 18, 2012
Why SOPA and PIPA Matter by Clay Shirky
Excellent and timely TEDTalk from my friend Clay ...
January 18, 2012
Thoughts on Stop SOPA/PIPA Day
1) Wow – people are paying attention to what’s going on. 2) The companies supporting SOPA are reinforcing the stereotypes about them. 3) There are no “real people” on social media defending it, at least none I’ve seen, only companies and associations and their lobbyists and the lawmakers they’ve influenced. 4) Our lawmakers have very ...
January 17, 2012
If your CTO has become Dr. No it is probably because your designers and other product creators misunderstand the engineering ...