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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. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 They had a great team and interesting technologies. I’m now back & ready for action. Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. But my job is to understand technology and therefore you must use it to understand it. As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.”

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. PhoneTag uses a combination of technology and human translation and thus has a much better accuracy rate. Getting Rid of Folders - A friend of mine, Dmitry Shapiro (founder of Veoh), teaches a course called WeekendU.

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