I learned so much about theory v practice.I would calculate the exact amount of explosives required and then round it up to a full case. No sense in opening a case when we had so much. You just had to make damn sure you were safe.The idea we got paid (only $277/month plus ...
I wouldn’t build a business counting on 100M others like you for certain ;)Full free to full paid…never done this. I guess it could be done but this is an all or nothing move. Feels desperate in most every instance to me.Free to Full or Premium or Pro. Light to full. Been ...
Paul asks "God knows what you would do to get 13 year old girls interested in computers?" and that is a damn good question and one that I have been thinking about a lot over the past four years. We see very few women entrepreneurs walk into USV and that is disappointing to me. And...
It’s a characteristic of people who read things (like those business magazines full of articles with stupid quotes of successful business people or blog posts) and operate that way without fully knowing what they are doing. Doing things that they don’t even understand because “well all of ...
This is why ‘older folks’ have a hard time in the new environment. They are not able to think stupidly like a kid does. And take the same chances. My point is transparency and information can be a disadvantage. Counter-intuitive. Full disclosure sounds great after the fact when things ...
Economics matter big govt. types (why I think starting a business in California, new York, new jersey, or Illinois is foolish long-term) .. I get they are power brokers now but everyone of those states already has very high taxes and if GAAP standards would apply are bankrupt.. the ...
Tech is the new Wall Street, full of ultra rich out of touch people who have too much power and not enough empathy. Erin Griffith nailed it in her Wired piece from a few weeks ago. Add to that context the fact that the big tech platforms, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, were used ...
Glass half full I guess,but there’s some viability in the frothiness—and if it happens to be Guinness,well… PhilipSugar May 4, 2011 Could not agree more. When things fail the “Oh well, everybody had a great experience” is as far from the truth as possible, at least from what...
I’ve been a B-school prof, a researcher in a corporation, helped start what is now a blue chip company, and am starting a Web 2.0 company.K-12K-12 has their plate full of various struggles that have next to nothing to do with the connection. Even if the struggles went away, the ...
The economics of solar has always been challenging. Ten year paybacks are not the path to rapid adoption. I believe that the cost of solar has come down a lot and that might reduce the payback times but energy costs have also come down a lot too so I don’t know if we’ve really ...