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Nov 10, 2010

My routine online reading has narrowed somewhat precipitously to Tumblr, Techmeme, Hacker News and HuffPo. Would love to find out what folks are reading daily or at least frequently (minimum once a week) online across categories: tech, politics, culture, art, [...] Read more

Nov 9, 2010

I am often surprised by how many people know what they want and yet fail to ask for it at the crucial moment (or for that matter altogether). This occurs in many different contexts. Sales people who can’t close because [...] Read more

Nov 5, 2010

This morning I am speaking to a group of women entrepreneurs out here in Westchester about opportunities coming out of mobile. I have written about this before on the USV blog, but here is what I am planning to talk [...] Read more

Nov 4, 2010

One more post on voting, but this tome about UX design. The new optical scanners have an awful user experience. Two things really stuck out. First, it was entirely unclear whether to insert one’s ballot face up or face down [...] Read more

Nov 3, 2010

The election is over and the results are as expected bad for the Democrats. I worry a bit that we are experiencing first hand the limits of democracy. We have a great many people voting out of frustration with the [...] Read more

Nov 2, 2010

There is a fine line between supporting and enabling. I find this is true as much at home as in business. When one of our children asks for help with a homework assignment, I tend to provide it to be [...] Read more

Nov 1, 2010

Tomorrow is a big election as potentially control of both houses is on the line. But why vote? There is something known as the “paradox of voting,” which questions why a rational voter would bother voting at all. The reasoning [...] Read more

Oct 29, 2010

This is part of my series of posts thinking about a coming age of abundance. The main thrust of my arguments will be that abundance will be a feature of the physical world, but I would be the first to [...] Read more

Oct 28, 2010

With so much infrastructure to build on, we are seeing smaller and smaller teams achieve amazing things. The combination of someone with a great product sense and one or two exceptional engineers can build and launch a new product or [...] Read more