Category: Blog
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My Newsletter’s First Quarterly Report (Q1,Y0)
Today marks the close of the first quarter since I started my weekly newsletter. For those reading this who don’t know what I’m talking about, let me explain: every week I send out an email that contains links to things I’ve written and found online. Usual topics include tech news and commentary, coverage of the…
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On The “Blanding” Of Web and Mobile Design: Some Light Reading
You don’t have to work for a tech company or be a professional designer to be able to intuit some things about mobile and web design. Over the past several years, designers have eschewed patterns and interface components inspired by the real world (a design trend known as skeuomorphic design). Lots of bloggers covered this…
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Surveying Last Week’s Bitcoin News
Bitcoin and blockchain technology is an area of ongoing interest for me. Although I’m not as involved in the space as I once was, I keep my eye on the news. The Bitcoin ecosystem can be quite insular, so I’m particularly interested in events that bubble up into the more conventional financial arena. Last week saw…
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Brexit: History, Market Failure & Science Threat
The late-breaking news on Thursday night that the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union left global markets rattled and many scratching their heads. As John Goodman points out in his history of referenda for Atlas Obscura the UK overwhelmingly voted to stay in the European Community (the EU’s predecessor) in 1975. Obviously, much…
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Notes on Twilio, Line And The Open (?) Window
After several quarters of disappointing news from public tech companies (primarily those affiliated with Jack Dorsey, but I digress) and story after story about private tech companies’ reluctance to go public, Twilio may have blown open the tech IPO window on Thursday. Making its debut on the NYSE under symbol TWLO, at the price of…
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3 Places To Start Learning About Marketplace Businesses
Earlier this week I published “A Beginner’s Guide to VC” on the Mattermark blog. There were a number of people who reached out to ask me to add more resources explaining certain business verticals. There is no possible way I could fit them all into that one post, and, so, I decided to make lists…
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Questions for Blockchain Experts
Here are a sample of questions I’d ask any blockchain expert today…
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A Reading List for First-time & Aspiring Entrepreneurs
In the past few of months, I’ve really enjoyed having coffee with folks who are just starting to figure out what they want to do with their lives. (I am still very much in the same boat.) When I was eighteen or nineteen years old, I had no clue what I was doing, and although I was…
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2016: The Year of Better Time Wastage
I am going to be honest with myself here: I spend an unfathomable amount of time procrastinating important things. It was especially true this past year, during which I dropped back into college to finally finish. Although I did accomplish some legitimately good things as a result of procrastination – like downloading a small library of academic…