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Bringing Depression Out of The Shadows In Startups - Feld Thoughts
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Press enter to search. Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and love to read. Press enter to search. April 8, 2015. Bringing Depression Out of The Shadows In Startups. I’ve been very open about my struggles with depression over the years. A few weeks ago, I participated in a Q&A with Greg Avery at the Denver Business Journal titled. It was part of a more extensive series on. I was afraid peo...
mariocantin.com
Mario Cantin's Excogitations: Lessons learned as an aspiring entrepreneur
http://www.mariocantin.com/2015/05/lessons-learned-as-aspiring-entrepreneur.html
I'm someone who loves to think stuff out, and I sometimes write about it here. Sunday, May 24, 2015. Lessons learned as an aspiring entrepreneur. I’ve had a few thoughts bouncing around my head lately that I wanted to turn into a blog post regarding some lessons I’ve learned in the last five years as a would-be entrepreneur. It takes some of us longer than others and that’s okay. On his podcast Jason Calacanis. A striking individual named Kenyatta Leal. Who had spent 19 years incarcerated. Even though In...
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Introducing Quackpad – simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman
http://www.nickgrossman.is/2015/07/30/introducing-quackpad
Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Introducing Quackpad – simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack. July 30, 2015. Every month at USV we have an internal hack day, where we work on various fun tech projects. We hack on USV.com. We build internal tools, we play with fun new hardware. One area we’ve spent some time on recently is building tools for the USV Network. And sign in using your Slack account&...
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Here’s the solution to the Uber and Airbnb problems — and no one will like it | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman
http://www.nickgrossman.is/2015/07/23/heres-the-solution-to-the-uber-and-airbnb-problems-and-no-one-will-like-it
Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Here’s the solution to the Uber and Airbnb problems — and no one will like it. July 23, 2015. It’s been a fascinating week to watch the war between Uber and the De Blasio administration play out. Not surprisingly, Uber ended up carrying the day using a combination of its dedicated user base and its sophisticated political machine. Using tons and tons of real-time data as t...
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Marshall Kirkpatrick's Blog » Public reaction to the Google Car as kick-off for machine ethics conversation
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Public reaction to the Google Car as kick-off for machine ethics conversation. 32; 05.15.15. 8220;If self-driving cars cut the roughly 40,000 annual US traffic fatalities in half, the car makers might get not 20,000 thank-you notes, but 20,000 lawsuits.” – A survey of research questions for robust and beneficial AI. Future of Life Institute. But at what point is the algorithm subject to double jeopardy. And no longer subject to new lawsuits? I hope that the backlash against robots isn’t too severe. As an...
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Marshall Kirkpatrick's Blog » Why Don’t People Understand Social Web 101 Already?
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Why Don’t People Understand Social Web 101 Already? 32; 02.11.15. How little do people understand about how social networks work and how should we relate to that reality? Why don’t people understand Social Web 101 by now? I imagine the literal answer is “because they’re busy, success doesn’t seem accessible, there aren’t good role models, people are disinclined to experiment, etc.” But sometimes I’m still in shock. Are they talking about hashtags but never, ever clicking on one in the wild? But I donR...
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Marshall Kirkpatrick's Blog » An aha moment about social data
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An aha moment about social data. 32; 03.26.15. I just got asked to contribute a story about an “aha moment” I’ve had in tech and this is what I’m submitting. I thought I’d share it here too, as I’m sure there won’t be much overlap. I’ve got a bunch of stories like this and they inform the creation of our startup, Little Bird. I was a tech blogger, at ReadWriteWeb, and I specialized in using tools and data to break news stories. That was my job, to find out things as early as possible. Now I’m the C...
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Why 'Assistant-As-App' Might Be the Next Big Tech Trend
http://www.nirandfar.com/2015/07/why-assistant-as-an-app-might-be-the-next-big-tech-trend.html
A blog about behavior engineering. Why ‘Assistant-As-App’ Might Be the Next Big Tech Trend. Whenever I feel uncomfortable writing about a topic, that’s when I know I should write about it. So here goes. This article is about how a new way of designing apps changed my life. But to explain the power of this trend, I need to tell you about poop. That’s the uncomfortable part. This app helped me get to the bottom of my problem. I’ll explain how later but what makes the design of this app important has im...
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My Anti-Victory Story | caligater
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Coloring the world with a blue pencil. Thesis Research – Master of Social Sciences. March 17, 2015. I’d like to tell you a story about the last few years. A story about anti-victory. While I worked on the classes required for my degree, I started freelance work in marketing communications. I figured freelancing would give me a flexible schedule and room to focus. Then, I walked off a track just a few feet from the finish line. The track: grad school. The finish line: graduating with a master’s degree.
mariocantin.com
Mario Cantin's Excogitations: Cultivating Karma
http://www.mariocantin.com/2015/05/cultivating-karma.html
I'm someone who loves to think stuff out, and I sometimes write about it here. Friday, May 8, 2015. In February 2014, I asked Brad Feld. To help me with a project by accepting to be interviewed by me via email so I could write a story titled, “. What it’s like to live in Boulder, Colorado. I thought, “Nice guy, but I’ll never hear back from him - he's just too busy, and he won't give me the time of day.”. It felt a little surreal actually, and I told him so. He replied with one word:. I couldn’t ex...
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