Remember when mainframes did all of the computing? And workstations were dumb terminals docked to the mainframes? The terminals had less power, but were more “mobile”.Then everyone got a desktop. And the desktop is where you did most of your...
Topics: Misc

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Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual...
Topics: Co-Founders

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We previously posted about the long tail of VC blogs. A few VC blogs capture most of our attention. The rest slog it out in the long tail.And now, for the first time in the history of mankind, we present the long tail of VC twitterers (click to zoom...
Topics: Resources, Twitter

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Many VCs use blogs to share advice, wisdom, and other thoughts. A few of these blogs capture most of our attention. The rest slog it out in the long tail.This chart shows the Google Reader subscribers of 131 VC blogs (click it to zoom in). The underlying.
Topics: Resources

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Naval’s personal blog, Startup Boy, is back. His posts, like The 80-hour Myth and VC Bundling, were an inspiration to me when I first moved to Silicon Valley. His latest post, The returns to entrepreneurship, is a return to form:“I was at...
Topics: Resources

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