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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

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I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. Given how much progress they’ve made since last year I look forward to tracking them and seeing where they end up by the end of 2010. As I’m sure Pip.io I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. So … November 2010 and Facebook has 500 million users. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Facebook Will Not be the Only Dominant Player.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then. ” It was an Art Deco style building and we were able to design an office that kept the concrete and the wood. It was stunning but sterile. We wandered 6 blocks East.

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Web Second, Mobile First

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Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I think it’s a beautifully designed product that is also tremendously useful and focused. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). I also love Batch.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Friedman again in this weekend’s (Apr 3, 2010) NYTimes: “Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net new jobs created in the U.S. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.