How to Get Free Wifi At Starbucks: The Definitive Guide

October 18, 2009

I remember reading last summer that Starbucks was offering two free hours of wifi for patrons… In subsequent months, despite having purchased numerous gift cards, owning an iPhone and spending countless hours in Starbucks across the country, I still had not been able to access this mysterious free internet. Well, I finally figured it out! [...]

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Where’s the Enterprise App Store?

October 9, 2009

Update: Not to toot my own horn, but four months later and here it is GetApp.com First, congratulations to @pistachio on the launch of OneForty! It’s awesome to see such great initial uptake and press; rumors of a Twitter buyout certainly don’t hurt either :) My question: where is the enterprise app store? While I [...]

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Innovating on Profiles: Unstructured Data and Auto-Population

October 8, 2009

Interactions on the web are increasingly distributed and new applications (and campaigns) must be built with a decentralized model in mind. As web apps become increasingly ubiquitous, Apple’s expression, “there’s an app for thatâ€� rings truer than ever. In such an environment, first mover advantage becomes increasingly important as early traction can compound quickly via [...]

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Notes from Peter Thiel’s Singularity Summit Talk (2009)

October 4, 2009

Today was the first time I’ve had a chance to hear Peter Thiel talk live and he did not disappoint. I spent Saturday and Sunday at the 2009 Singularity Summit, held for the first time in New York. Michael Vassar, Singularity Institute’s president, did an exceptional job of assembling an all-star cast of speakers. Talks [...]

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The New Batman

September 28, 2009

Jon Steinberg had a great post several weeks’ back where he coined a new term (Approach? Philosophy?); “hackable business development.â€� For $500 and four weeks of late night emails to eLance developers, you can basically spec and build simple, rough apps that knit or build upon open APIs to create things that are interesting and [...]

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Social Good Startup Competition: October 2nd

September 20, 2009

I’m really excited to be participating in an awesome startup event being run in tandem with The Feast Conference. The Feast is best thought of as a mini-TED focused on “gathering the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change.” Sounds like a mouthful, [...]

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Facebook: The Most Searched for Term on the Web?

September 20, 2009

As far as I can tell, Facebook is the most searched for term on the web. Several weeks ago over dinner, my friend Peter and I were discussing the growth of Twitter and Facebook. One point we kept returning to was exactly how uncontested Facebook’s dominance is among social networks. While Twitter gets incredible media [...]

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The Skype Deal in Numbers

September 6, 2009

The investor syndicate received 65% ownership in Skype for about $1.9 billion in cash and $125 million in debt New venture fund, Andreessen Horowitz invested $50 million, or 1/6th of its  fund a stake of ~2% This deal valued Skype with a valuation of ~$2.75B Skype has 405 million users, meaning the buyers paid about [...]

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David Sacks PayPal Resume

September 3, 2009

if you want to see an example of as perfect of a resume line-item as you can get, look no further than David Sack’s description of his position and accomplishments while at PayPal: COO PayPal (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry) 1999 — 2002 (3 years) As Chief Operating Officer, I was PayPal’s product [...]

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Ari Gold on Business Plans

August 4, 2009

Great scene from a recent Entourage episode…Ari goes off on Turtle about business plans (go to minute 15:22) …and here’s another funny clip with Vince talking to Eric about Facebook

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