TC50 Sekai (Tonchidot) just presented, one of the best presentations I have ever seen.
I don’t think I understood a word he said.
VentureBeat has a great post on what actually happened. Here is my take.
Takahito Iguchi is my hero. He delivered a pitch in a 2nd language with more energy than I have ever [...]
Sic semper tyrannus!
We noticed that our friend Jonathan Strauss looked a whole lot like John Wilkes Booth (who killed Abraham Lincoln.
At that second, we saw a guy dressed up at Abraham Lincoln.
Susan Mernit asked me to be a News Challenge Screener for the Knight News Challenge. My first thought was ‘huh?’ My seccond thought was ‘no way!’ My third though was ‘this program is really, really cool.”
So what is this?
the $5 million Knight initiative to fund digitally innovative ideas in local news delivery
It is through [...]
Walking around TechCrunch50 today I saw quite a few pitches. I think I can simplify what makes the pitches bad down to this (incorrect) theory:
Investors are drunk party girls at closing time at the bar.
Bad pitches usually come from thinking this.
So:
If you want to get busy with an investor between the term sheets:
Don’t pretend you [...]
The Wild Gift is an organization that I am an absolute fan of. They find smart folks they view as future leaders, then take them out to have an amazing experience in the wilderness, and then encourage and fund hem to do a year long project with a focus on wilderness and education.
Their mission:
Our Mission [...]
“We are listening.” is the startup mantra I hate.
Companies are really starting to catch on to engaging their customers through where their customers are talking (this being done with some great points by Jeremiah Owyang, Chris Brogan and Geoff Livingston). Chris says it simply:
Conversations are happening online in all kinds of places. It’s important [...]
Musically the last two weeks have been amazing for me. I was able to see Cold War Kids, Silversun Pickups, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Ratatat and Rage Against the Machine.
RATM broke up when I was in High School, and I thought I would never be able to see them live. Last year they [...]
Brad Feld just wrote a brilliant post on his thoughts on Apple and the Republican Party.
I feel like my relationship with Apple isn’t the Republican Party for me, it is the Democratic Party. Here is why:
Fully support them, they rarely do something for me
Give them too much money
Give them way too much credit
Really hope they [...]
Photography Tips Kris Krug who is an amazing photographer presented an amazing speech on, well, taking better photos. I saw Kris say ‘use better lenses’ about a year ago and have been in the habit of using Pro Photo Rental to try out some really nice lenses.
Lesson Learned: Shoot everyday.
Ma.gnolia 2.0 by Tara Hunt and [...]
The world is always changing yet repeats itself quite a bit.
In the Summer of 2002 I had an absolutely amazing experience outside Eagle, Alaska (map) helping build a cabin roughly 8 miles from a road. It was total subsistence living, with a net in the mighty Yukon River catching 20 fish a day (mostly used [...]
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