Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

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. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Brad on blogging.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

In operation since 1995, AltaVista is one of the web’s search trailblazers, and is still in operation today. With a single-query system that uses metasearch technology to trawl most of the major-player engines in one go, you’ll also find multimedia results and local news. WebCrawler. DuckDuckGo. MetaCrawler.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” “Can you take me Higher? To a place where blind men see . Can you take me Higher? .

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Katrina has also proven herself in the recruiting field, having recruited Eric Colson from Netflix to run analytics and algorithms, Mike Smith from WalMart.com to run operations, and Jeff Barrett from Opower to build engineering. Stitch Fix’s personalization technology creates a very similar dynamic within women’s fashion.

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