tech, startups, internet
Learnings from a 6x angel investment portfolio.
Investor Elizabeth Yin from Hustle Fund shares 12 things she’s learned from her experience writing angel checks. | learn more
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tech, startups, internet
How to get a job in venture capital.
Brad Feld summarizes his partner’s longer post about how to get one of the few coveted jobs in this field. |learn more
tech, startups, internet
Zillow wants to flip your house.
“A new breed of high-tech real estate flippers is using algorithms (and a healthy dose of Silicon Valley venture capital) to buy at massive scale.” | learn more
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How Sam Yagan bounced back from a startup failure to a $400M IPO.
This Forbes piece doesn’t cover recent news, but it is a neat profile of one Chicago’s entrepreneurship heroes. The author interviewed Sam Yagan to learn about his history founding SparkNotes (went well), eDonkey (ended badly), and OKCupid (eventually acquired to […]
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On digital media companies vs networks.
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks, discusses how the internet has fundamentally changed business models for media. Specifically, she’s saying that audiences are out and networks are in. I think she makes a great point! | learn more
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Deepfakes go bigger with machine-generated copy.
Axios reports on the new technology from OpenAI that enables machines to write human-sounding prose. Combined with Deepfake technology to create artificial video and audio, “It could be used to influence people one-on-one on a massive scale, rather than distributing […]
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What went wrong with on-demand, artisanal food.
With the recent failure of Silicon Valley startup Munchery, and the less-recent failure of Sprig, SF Chronical offers an interesting post-mortem of the on-demand food business model. It’s interesting to read some of the quotes from former Sprig employees about […]
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How much of the internet is fake?
New York Magazine highlights fake metrics, people, businesses and politics. One excerpt: “For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was ‘bots masquerading as people,’ a portion so high that […]
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The Future of Everything’s 10 best stories of 2018.
The WSJ’s The Future of Everything is a really interesting section. “From a flying-car test drive to the woolly mammoth’s potential return, our favorite stories from the past 12 months.” If you have trouble accessing this, I can help – […]
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What is a visionary?
I’ve referenced the Visionary vs Integrator framework in a lot of conversations lately, so I figured I’d share a bit more detail here. I think this fits startups and entrepreneurial companies so well. “A Visionary is a person who has […]