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OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. No, not all of these people will get jobs at hot starts like Facebook, Google or Twitter. I’m investing heavily in Internet video. Americans watch 5.3

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JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. The cycle before that was Google, Salesforce and LinkedIn, amongst others. Note that I’m not absolving my industry, venture capital, from bad behavior. Are LPs to blame?

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. So what are you waiting for?

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MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. They have been successful simply for pushing the telecom companies, Microsoft, and Google to innovate.

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