(originally posted on Medium) While thousands of tourists in Split, Croatia were enjoying Mediterranean bliss, a progressive 1100 were gathered to strengthen the tech-ecosystem of Southeastern Europe, and 1 person, this author, ended up learning a life-lesson on
The positives: The device is very well designed, attractive, and with the right ‘heft’ Amazon’s Echo nails the living room voice recognition problem - it understands you immediately, at reasonable volumes, at reasonable distances,
Brad Pitt walks into a bar, and out with a super-model. Don’t you want to know the cut of his suit? MixPanel raises a $65MM inside-growth round at an $865MM valuation; awesome for them, their customers,
Entrepreneurs who tell stories well can explain complex ideas, attract amazing talent, close customers, create partners, and raise financing with relative ease. Those that can’t struggle at every turn. Sometimes, the story is just too hard to
Last year I went from skeptic to admirer, and ultimately fervent user of Snapchat. Yesterday’s app update brings disappearing text conversations, and real-time video chat to the platform - and while I’ve struggled a
One of the underlying principles of the Internet’s design is that of robustness and decentralization - large parts of our physical infrastructure might fail, and yet the packets will still flow. The great irony is that the
I’ve had a few months downtime since I left Boundless, and go figure, I decided to spend most of my time meeting and helping other entrepreneurs. You’d think I was hooked.Well, I am,
Nothing unlocks your inner hacker like some friendly competition between friends. So when friend Brian Balfour threw down a Dots gauntlet with a high score of 479 I knew I had to end him. And not just him,
