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How to Be a VC: Being Open

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“There’s this Pollyannaish notion that the most important thing to do when working together is stay positive and get along, to not hurt anyone’s feelings,” she says. People thought I was crazier for having the chat widget on my blog. It's tough to respond to every e-mail. Honestly, few people use it.

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Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem

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The best hope you have for sending me an article that I read is to e-mail it to me or DM me on Twitter—and to hope that wherever I’m reading the web, I’m also checking messaging services. The notion of followers and influence hierarchies is very powerful in the recommendation space. 3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet.

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The Parent Trap: A Response to Bill Keller (@nytkeller) on Twitter and Social Media

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They don't really tweet or blog, but Facebook--the social network meant to connect you with people you already know--is the standard. If you think you want to go into a particular career, there’s usually a person who writes a blog about it whose e-mail address is listed in the sidebar. I grew up in Brooklyn.

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On being late

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The book is an exploration of how different cultures experience time, and how our current notions of time came to be. I can answer e-mail, read from ReadItLater, play my baseball game , jot some thoughts down for a new blog post. I've been reading this book called " A Geography of Time " on a rec from my super cool friend Pants.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion. I also use Mailchimp for the teten.com and pevctech.com mailing lists. Another VC said, “I’m a heavy user of Streak , which is a CRM that lives in your Gmail and allows you to create contact pipelines, snooze / track e-mails, save snippets, etc. See their blog post on multiples.).

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When your startup’s core mission is set to be overturned

TechCrunch

Then, Hey Jane co-founder Kiki Freedman said that the overturn makes abortion care via mail “now likely to be the most viable form of access for most of the country.” As always, you can support me by forwarding this newsletter to a friend or following me on Twitter or my blog. More layoffs in startupland.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

And I published this on my own startups blog. If I go pay LinkedIn, I can send you spam in mail. So it's a recursive function to say, oh, well, if the New York Times links to you, that's much more valuable than if Dharmesh's blog links to you because New York Times has more page rank. So let's say I have two units of page rank.