Always Sunny in SF: Archive

Start a fund? Not what you think

I’m a big fan of what Adeo is doing at the Founder Institute. He giving people the platform to learn from great mentors and builds up confidence to actually get out there and start something. I’ve invested in one FI.CO grad Breezy and feel that the team was well prepared and ahead of others in the early early stage. Thanks Adeo and FI, however…….. On building a fund...

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2001 Space Odyssey Patent Defense →

This is seriously hilarious. The patent system is so screwed up, but this is something that I can’t believe. Samsung’s filing about preventing Apple’s patents on the iPad to be declared null and void: “Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In a clip from...

Aug 24th

Watch

Lean does not mean raise no money. Beware vanity stats and build a great product.

Aug 15th

Cap Table: Let's Get this Right

Please Please Please - You Entrepreneurs out there, know your cap table. I’m an entrepreneur first so I’m only re-iterating this to remind startups how important this is. Also employees of early stage companies, remember that you also need to understand how your hard work equates to equity on the cap table. This is fundamental. If you don’t know your positions or...

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Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The... →

May 23rd

Bubble and Babble

I’ve officially become tired of the bubble euphoria going around on the tele. Every place you turn you’ve got some talking head saying that there’s a commodity bubble or a currency bubble and of course the whole new - back to the future - tech bubble. I’ve become tired of this, the same way i’ve become tired of cloud and data 2.0. Yes there are things which are...

May 21st

“China has by far the strongest interest in purchasing tablets, with consumers...”

– A whole generation of Chinese consumers who have only know computing as mobile phones are going straight to tablets. Imagine how free they will be to reimagine computing never having used a keyboard or mouse. The post-PC world is shaping up to be a very interesting one. Link (via brycedotvc)

May 17th

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@jxpaton's Twitter Lecture

Apr 26th

Hard Economic Lessons for News →

This is so well written and thought out. It’s a must read.

Apr 26th

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Apr 20th

“With 26 new cars added to China’s roads every minute, nightmarish traffic...”

– Briefing [Asia] - Monocle April 2011 www.monocle.com

Apr 19th

Nice Feature Cohuman

alexch: RT @cohuman: New Feature - Broadcast your Task by making tasks public for EVERYONE & ANYONE in Cohuman to see. http://ow.ly/4CXnN

Apr 19th

Full write up of Pigs 'N Pinot →

Thanks to Whitney and Eric again for hosting a great party. Here’s the full write up with menu and wine list.

Apr 18th

Prepare

I love meeting with companies, late stage and early, the founders and management are infectious with energy. Most times when I leave a good meeting I’m often wondering why I don’t drop everything and jump back into the operational world. I do get discouraged when you meet a company with promise, a smart team, and actually has something to offer, but … totally unprepared....

Apr 16th

“It is 10 times more secure to use “this is fun” as your password, than “J4fS”

– The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips (via alexch)

Apr 15th

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Apr 9th

Data as the new currency

I’m at the Data 2.0 conference in Mission Bay today hearing about the many uses of data and how it will change everything in how we interact with brands and people. I’m hearing lots about “social data” here and “social behavior” there, however I’m not getting much in terms of differentiation across companies or products being delivered on a...

Apr 5th

Tight Lines Wine: In the Barrel →

tightlineswine: We’ve done barrel samples over the last few months and what’s in the barrel is nothing short of amazing. It’s now up to us to “not screw it up”, the vines did their part now we’re letting the oak do the rest. In Oak: We’ve got a killer single vineyard Pinot from Green Valley (RRV) - we’re…

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Twitter User Growth Jan 2010 →

In addition to the declining growth rate, the latest State of the Twittersphere shows that the average Twitter user is more engaged. Consider the following changes: Today the average Twitter account has 300 followers; in July, it had 70 The average account now follows 173 accounts; in July it was only following 47 The average account today has posted 420 updates; in July that number was 119

Jan 20th

“Tuesday Quick Sip – 2006 Merryvale Starmont Cabernet Sauvignon: 2006 Merryvale...”

– TopWineNews

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Huneeus Buys Two Orin Swift Labels →

I’ve really enjoyed watching the Orin Swift labels takeoff and tried all of them. Personally the Mercury Head is my favorite, but The Prisoner and Saldo are great too. This is cool news for a wine ‘startup’ getting some serious distribution.

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Jan 3rd

Connect

Finished ‘Crush it’ by @garyvee and will try to connect more this year. Last year was such a wild ride. Need to string together 3 crazy years in a row: 2008: sold my company 2009: had baby #2 and 2nd acqusition 2010: ?

Jan 2nd

“The rallying cry now from Republicans is that we shouldn’t try the Christmas...”

– Rachel Maddow rips apart Cheney, GOP attack machine - Daily Kos TV (beta) (via alexch)

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