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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

This year I signed up to a number of email newsletters which provided a haven of curation in my areas of interest. Still waiting for wearables: It feels like we are in early 2000′s phase for smart phones when it comes to wearable computing. Email & text on the comeback trail: The inbox has made a comeback for me.

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Wikipedia was a tremendous invention in the process of knowledge curation, and it was dependent, in turn, on the invention of wikis. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

Genuine VC

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. Her co-founder and CTO Yee Lee worked with both my partner Lee Hower and myself (at PayPal and Venrock, respectively).

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

Duct Tape Marketing

We started off with Gangbusters in 2000. And then re-curating other people’s content, re-curating our content, words that I didn’t even know what they meant frankly. Jack McGuinness: Yeah, so a hard part is, like a lot of firms, you think you got a great Rolodex to start.

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New moderators and flair on Answers OnStartups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It takes love and devotion to curate a community like this, not only to delete spam but to help new members get involved, ask the right questions, and continue the spirit of constructive, respectful debate. Actually it's 2,000 people, with about 200 active daily. So you get a lot of viewpoints, and you get it quickly. Join the fun.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting.

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