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Reflections on 2018: Richard Wolpert, The Soul Of A Deal

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We do, as of the writing of this in early December, seem to be seeing a correction at this time. There is an all out ground war right now between Amazon and Google for control of voice in the home. I had expected a correction much earlier in the year and I was wrong.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 I’m now back & ready for action.

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Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News

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Paul explains the rationale behind HackerNews this way : “We wanted to try to recreate the way reddit felt back in 2006, when the users were mainly hackers. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. See definition: ad hominem. Ad hominem.

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

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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They get paid to say, “Company X is the new FriendFeed&# just 2 days after Google acquires FriendFeed. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. That grabs headlines.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. I believe that. This market will be the same.

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