Three years ago, Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in the plum role of general partner. Yet one senses the longtime operator and entrepreneur — whose many past roles include as Twitt
Booze-free clubbing is Sweden’s latest party craze. STOCKHOLM, Sweden– Hundreds of dancers have invaded the floor. The more self-conscious among them cradle drinks and stand pushed up against the wall
Last week i decided to replace my RSS reader from Feedly to InoReader . Both are a solid solution for feed consumption with advanced features that replaced what used to be Google Reader. After subscri
Evernote has rolled out a new “Work Chat” feature to its web and mobile applications which allows users of its online note-taking and collaboration software to discuss ideas and projects directly in t
What’s wrong with Angular 1 Published in Este.js dev stack · 3 min read · Oct 6, 2014 -- Update : It’s long time I wrote this article and now I would write it differently. Programming is hard and we a
[Spoilers ahead for Desert Golfing .] So, how do I play this? There are no instructions. Ah, I just swipe to set the angle and strength. Pretty simple. Hm. The sand has a lot of friction. I’m learning
This is a rant. If you are looking for genuine insight on how things went wrong this week in America’s unmanned and under-funded space efforts, there are a lot better places to look. A short inventory
I find tweets too reductionist and Medium pieces too bloviating, so I came to the same conclusion Andy did on mid-length writing . His post reminded me of a working draft I started awhile back called “New rules for blogging.” This is still a work-in-progress, notes-to-self kind of thing, but it’s…
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. When I started this site, one of the things I wanted to do was write every day. It’s mostly worked out that way, though some days all I post a
I wrote this for the FT, but it's behind a paywall. Since I wrote it, I feel like it 's probably ok for me to post it here. The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple m
I’m not a big fan of the default text rendering in WebKit, in my opinion, it’s too heavy. There used to be a workaround where setting text-shadow would make the text thinner, but updating to Snow Leop
Pipino also started scaling the front of his family’s apartment building so as to avoid the haunted stairwell. He learned the delicate art of ascending decrepit facades with his fingertips, developing
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. NCTA The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reportedly close to proposing a "hybrid approach" to network neutrality in which Internet service providers wo
To be sure, this was a very buzzy deal in Silicon Valley. For every venture capitalist blown away by the company’s rapid growth — it already is used by 30,000 teams to send over 200 million monthly me
Richard Kim 2 min read· Sep 21, 2014 -- What’s the best way to alert your user? UIAlertView The standard alert, simple, but breaks the user’s momentum link: lots of tutorials online, here’s one Good: Giving instructions: user tries to access location, but location permission is not on. Bad:…
Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their id
We’re super excited to share some big news today. We’ve decided to raise more funding for Buffer, and in line with our value of transparency, we want to share
October 27, 2014 #define CTO I joined Stripe as an engineer in 2010. I began by working on the backend infrastructure: designing the server architecture, creating our credit card vault, and producing
5 min read · Oct 16, 2014 -- Home from college one year during spring break, a friend and I drove into the city from Brooklyn one night to hit up a club downtown. Both flat broke at the time, I rememb
History has dubbed you the “Millennials.” You’re part of the first generation to grow up in the digital age. Some of you grew up with cell phones tucked into your book bags, while others can remember
Last year, I had the chance to ask President Obama directly what it is like to be a black president. (Our conversation was off the record, but after this NSA stuff, I’m not sure that matters anymore.) POTUS said that as a black president he has had to concede he is “not allowed to make any sudden…
You don’t have to go on wondering how Amazon’s Fire Phone gambit paid off. The retailer announced its third quarter financial results on Thursday, and it didn’t go well. Amazon lost nearly half a billion dollars in the quarter, and the largest single component of that was the Fire Phone , on which…
Any startup founder knows the pressure of launching first. The belief is that if your competitor beats you to market, untold riches await them… while your company is now a dead duck. This is rarely tr
David Spinks: The "entrepreneurs should solve bigger problems" narrative hasn't felt quite right to me. Enjoyed @rrhoover's take: http://t.co/WHJdU3jmoI
David Barnard: “If you are struggling to identify a job your product does, be very careful. Tech that doesn’t find a job fails.” http://t.co/SPoZKpnuth
The other day I was reading a book and I came across a little anecdote. It was about the great Athenian general Themistocles. Before the battle of Salamis, he was locked in a vigorous debate with a Spartan general about potential strategies for defeating the Persians. Themistocles was clearly in the…
Spritz Inc. Reading is good. So reading faster must be better right? This is the well-meaning logic behind every person who googles “speed reading” and all the recent excitement about the Spritz speed
Managing product development and management in general are ripe with clichés. By definition of course a cliché is something that is true, but unoriginal. I like a good cliché because it reminds you th
Way back in October 2008, my now husband and I went on our first date. On our one year anniversary, his gift to me was a Word doc of all of our text messages since our first date (what he likes to ref
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