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OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

She decided that learning computer coding and practicing her sales abilities were two steps toward that. and more articles from the EO blog. . The post Celebrating Wonder women appeared first on THE BLOG. Listen here. Heidi Golledge: As a child, Heid Golledge was determined to make money to help her family. Listen here.

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JUNE 8, 2014

It required a diffusion of personal computers that led to the massive growth of Hewlett Packard, Intel, Apple Computers and others. To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. I have a process I use for blog posts, too. Strange, I know. I think about what the key points are.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

They are getting a sense that as VR and AR become more an important part of the computing landscape that the history of film-making and camera innovations not to mention special effects and talent will continue to propel LA’s tech market growth. It will also serve as home to our partner blogs and to our company announcements.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

And actually if you have ADD you may just want to watch the videos I’ve embedded below because it’s easier to concentrate on that than reading a blog post. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. I learned to program their computers and taught them how to update them. I rush the last 20%.

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JULY 2, 2021

After implementing these ideas, I learned that one of my employees builds computers at home. The post 4 outrageous ideas to reinvigorate company culture appeared first on THE BLOG. Unpacking a joyous work environment can lead to more laughter , teamwork, a sense of belonging and innovation in the office.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 31, 2021

TEALS is a longstanding program supported by Microsoft where software engineers assist in computer science instruction in K12 schools. I have been blogging about and advocating TEALS for over eight years now. TEALS came to NYC in 2013 and has been helping kids learn computer science in NYC schools ever since.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

My brain is wired for logic and for problem solving and computers have always helped me fill this compulsion. I was blessed with a healthy extraverted side to accompany my inner computer geek so the balance never had negative consequences. Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s). He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 12, 2019

The three areas that seem most obvious to me for decentralized infrastructure are compute (code execution), storage (storing files, etc), and bandwidth (network infrastructure). And today, we are excited to announce that USV has made an investment in a decentralized network infrastructure project called Helium.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I walk down from my bedroom and stay at my computer un-showered and in a hat for 10 straight hours. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. Some of my biggest breakthroughs have come in what seems like lazy time. Every so often after a few weeks of go-go-go I work from home from a day.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Remember the first time you touched a computer screen instead of typing commands? We’ve lived through distinct epochs of human-computer interaction: the cryptic beauty of command lines, the intuitive dance of graphical interfaces, & the ubiquity of browser-based computing in the SaaS era. It’s different now.

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MAY 17, 2023

It has already started disrupting many industries, most notably education and computer programming. Even Bill Gates, who helped lead the personal computing revolution, published a widely-shared blog post comparing the latest developments in AI to the launch of the personal computer and the internet.

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JULY 6, 2020

A graduate of MIT and Stanford, he is also the author of Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior ; Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success) ; and The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Experiences way beyond any hack-a-thon, startup blog or your current company engagement can enrich your thinking and challenge you to think more broadly about the solutions you offer in the market. These were in the days where you couldn’t just be super smart, be disciplined, program computers well and get rich.

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APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973.

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JUNE 13, 2023

I don’t think I have ever gone three weeks without posting in the almost twenty years I’ve been writing this blog. Clearly, I have moved on from that need to write every day. The 20th anniversary of AVC will be on September 23rd of this year. So why did I go three weeks without posting? There are reasons for that.

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JULY 14, 2021

That experience taught me that I could build things in other ways, so that’s how I came to study Computer Science. The post GSEA Studentpreneur Camilo Salinas: Entrepreneur first, business after appeared first on THE BLOG. It was one of the only practical classes that I took in school, and I found what I learned to be eye-opening.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2012

People flocked to get Cisco certified for jobs that helped get offices physically setup and supported with computers, routers and servers to work. In the 90's, one of the largest areas of growth for skilled labor was in corporate IT infrastructure and support.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Follow these tips to manage your papers, computer files as well as items on your desk and workstation. Before you implement changes in your office space and computer, create a plan. There are many cloud storage sites where you can upload files to free up your computer space. It’s time to do things more efficiently.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. I had built computer systems before. It is encapsulated in one of my favorite quotes that I first heard from Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Captial , “Good judgment comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgment&#. What did he know? He was tech.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. They are clearly an important part of our future computing fabric.

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JANUARY 2, 2016

I am not writing about this out of the blue – this seems to be the topic of the day in my social stream based on blogs written, retweets rendered and attaboys handed out. Should we be concerned about the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many? I found the conversation a bit disconcerting.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I guess it’s now the norm to allow the music I listen to on Spotify to be published to my friend (I swear it was my kids using my computer to listen to Neil Diamond guys ). I read this story on Ivan Kirigin’s blog that shows that Quora was posting which articles you’re reading to other people without your consent.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. We want somebody who is ready, willing and able to debate tech with us. Where do you think things are heading? I will not consider applicants without a cover letter.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The news blogs will cover the what, how and how much but I want to focus on the “why” and try to be instructive of what I think makes for a great A-round startup. The systems they are building are adaptive and computer generated so they can’t be studied, memorized or gamed.

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APRIL 11, 2019

For anybody who doesn’t recognize his name, he co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and is known as the developer of the 1976 Apple I—the computer that launched the now-ubiquitous brand. My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. It was to build good computers.”. He generously gives without restrictions or conditions.

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StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

You should agree on three or five key promotional strategies, ideally meeting your business needs for a start: Blogging Best for → establishing authority over time and search engine optimization (SEO) PPC advertising Best for → speedy conversions (be careful not to overspend on it!) Need faster results? Yet, remember about seasonality, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

As the world moved into the Technology Age in the 1970s and 80s, the value to society of those who invented and developed technical and computer skills began to increase. This article originally appeared on the blog of Self Discovery Life Mastery. . Most recently we have been in the Information Age.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Why it will revolutionize the way we shop, browse, and learn Source: openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins The electrifying launch and global adoption of ChatGPT has been amazing to witness. Turn to Wolfram, a technical computing engine, to guide you through solving math problems. Learning Spanish? Studying for a calculus exam?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

.” “We’re excited to meet groups across all phases of the seed stage, from pre-idea solo founders to co-founding teams already working on a product,” OpenAI writes in a blog post shared with TechCrunch ahead of today’s announcement. involved in developing state-of-the-art AI systems.

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JUNE 6, 2025

You should agree on three or five key promotional strategies, ideally meeting your business needs for a start: Blogging Best for → establishing authority over time and search engine optimization (SEO) PPC advertising Best for → speedy conversions (be careful not to overspend on it!) Need faster results? Yet, remember about seasonality, too.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

Because plugging a computer into your TV is still just too goddamn hard for the average person. 3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet. Sharing links on my blog is to cumbersome, but I’d do it if I had a better clipping tool that posted. Same goes for television. Why hasn't Avner Ronen taken over the world yet? Cable is easy.

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