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Journalism : 2010 :: Food : 1910

There is a certain watershed moment in the evolution of most consumer web entrepreneurs. In this moment, entrepreneurs recognize that they do not understand the way most people think about and interact with the internet. They recognize that if you are going to market to “Normals“, you have to leave your intuition of user behavior [ READ MORE ]

Learning from Failure is Hard, Learning from Success is Harder

Unqualified lessons are hard to wring from startups. It’s difficult to really understand something without doing it, and no two people who do it have identical experiences. That said, I’ve seen two schools of thought on how to learn from others’ startup experiences: 1) It’s best to learn from success. Stories of failures have no [ READ MORE ]

In Defense of Lifestyle

You don’t have a company. You have a job. - Yale prof and Honest Tea founder Barry Nalebuff, to me, September 2006 I was in college at the time, running a small antique furniture reseller called Aloysius Properties on the side. Aloysius was a fun business. We realized that Ivy League schools, especially our own [ READ MORE ]

Incentives and Carried Interest

The House recently passed a bill to tax carried interest at the higher income tax – rather than the lower capital gains – rates. This has generated considerable consternation and debate in the venture world and somehow led to Chris Dixon asking Jim Robinson to go fuck himself [1]. In brief, taxing carried interest – [ READ MORE ]

Facebook and the Extra-National Currency

The creation of an extra-national currency has long been a libertarian dream. Fiat currency, after all, ties our assets to the wills and whims of a central government. At times — and many people argue that now is such a time — poor government decisions can dramatically debase the value of our income and savings. [ READ MORE ]

Why Everyone Should Get Funded (Once)

The smart money says there’s plenty of capital out there. And from the perspective of near-term return optimization, they’re right. In fact, there’s probably too much capital out there, especially in major centers of innovation like New York, Boston and the Valley. If you were to seed fund the “marginal 10%” of companies — the [ READ MORE ]

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