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Why Blog?

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I've now been blogging for eight and a half years and it's undoubtedly my most valuable career asset--but not just for its reach. It has a number of ancillary benefits that a lot of people who don't blog might not realize. I blog about twice a week and that's more than most people.

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Excited that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is an Investor in Editorially

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She came into my office, told me the problem she was working on, and what she was going to do about it. What they’ve done, as Mandy writes on her blog, is to “set out to make the best tool for writing and editing, one that understands that good writing—like good design, or good code—is the result of iteration and collaboration.”.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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There was what seemed like an endless stream of bombshell announcements for four months: Alphabet’s Waymo unit filed a lawsuit against Uber claiming that a former Waymo employee, Anthony Levandowski, stole secrets related to autonomous vehicle technology. They got worse. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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Findings is GitHub for Ideas

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I can’t see what other friends of mine are reading from Amazon. What I’d really like to do is share all my book quotes on Tumblr. ". What makes the system truly powerful is the way that it fosters private serendipity. Two years ago yesterday, I asked " Why is the Kindle so anti-social? ". It is the quote.

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run. Here are some truths about what accelerators can be for startups: A small filter. Don't get me wrong; the pitch deck is a crucial document (trust me, it's what we do).

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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What gets frustrating is that I tend to hear the same arguments over and over again from new entrepreneurs, and many of them are just completely unfunded. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that! Unfortunately, they tend to resonate really well with frustrated entrepreneurs and a lot of dust gets kicked up over them.

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The 4 best online whiteboards in 2025

The Zapier Blog

To that end, online whiteboards are a key tool when you need fast, easy, visual collaboration regardless of what city, country, or continent your colleagues are in. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. And with such a large canvas, navigating it needed to be easy.