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Best Tips for Working from Home Effectively

Tech.Co

Designate a Work Area . With features designed for checking in and collaborating with teammates, plus capturing good performance and potential performance risks, your employees that are working from home won't feel left out at all. Take a long breakfast, or maybe even go for a walk to get a healthy break from your screen.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. The power of large screen real estate. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. The power of a keyboard.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also help to make bad companies look good. I love complexity.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also to make bad companies look good. I love complexity.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Some of them are beautifully designed and have exciting teams so I know why investors are pumped up about the teams they’ve backed. Mostly, I love writing.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. On the east coast, the response is typically all the reasons why your idea is not going to work. On the west coast, generally the response is how to improve on an idea.

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Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?

Xconomy

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? But I think having good science content—like, say, good set design—can help elevate a good movie to greatness. Writing Code.