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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. It was a sufficient barrier and we developed social graces. I’d sooner people have my mobile phone number than my email address because as a society we know the social norm that just calling or texting somebody you don’t know isn’t acceptable.

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JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Where are we today? Why is this?

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5

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JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Think of web vs. mobile. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Most VCs are book smart. Connections? FourSquare.

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JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2016

What I’ve learned about ADD is that while concentration can be a struggle, you actually develop hyper focus for things that interest you. I also found that not having your computer or mobile phone available drastically increasing your engagement and lowers your distractions. I would have started in June. Medication.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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