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Inside the Realms of Ruin

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As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about? I remember saying that I just don't get it, even though they had a great story.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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As the human ear ages it loses its ability to hear high-pitched sound frequencies (above 15-16 kHz) through a condition known as presbycusis that starts at 18 years old. Thus begins Snapchat and why you don’t get it. That’s the point. So get over it. Snapchat will be used for both like the Internet (and TV) are.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. This is a slightly longer version and also has an update at the end. I agree that not all businesses require this level of dedication and the lifestyle choice isn’t for everybody.