I’ve been gorging on great content lately. The combination of mobile and good enough bandwidth have created a perfect storm for the consumer where the cash cow internet leaders must create great content to keep your attention.  I now calendar time to watch video. On Saturday mornings I spend an hour catching up on late …

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I love my Max. He turns 18 today: Incredibly thoughtful, funny and cool gift from @stimy9 … #lindzanity A post shared by Howard Lindzon (@howardlindzon) on May 5, 2012 at 4:26pm PDT He is a piece of work. I went back through hundreds of photos on instagram to find a few of my favorites. Photos …

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I have an iPhone and don’t use Apple Pay. Approximately 90 million Americans have an iPhone but Apple can’t make Apple Pay a thing.  Just this week Apple is rumored to be launching Apple Cash to compete with PayPal’s Venmo. The market does not seem to take it too seriously as PayPal hit all-time high …

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My post yesterday ‘Checks and Cheerleading’ was a mess. A jumbled version of it was emailed to everyone and I woke to this note from my friend Ryan: Why so many typos in your post today? Too many cheerleaders, not enough editors ? :) Here is the corrected post with the video and link. Speaking …

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Fred did this great lecture at MIT on the business of venture capital investing. Fred also dove into the subject of angel investing. If you really want to be an angel investor, watch this video eight times and write 50 checks to a diverse set of founders. What resonated with me most was the concept …

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Spotify wants to do a direct listing of their shares to bypass Wall Street and the IPO process. Fred explains it a bit here. We need some bold public market ideas and companies. Spotify could work because they do not even need to raise capital. The shares woould get listed and trade. Of course, some …

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Longer post today… I am sitting at my endodontist’s office this afternoon as I bang out this blog post. My new teeth are really a miracle of technology. My grinding destroyed my teeth. I did so much damage over the years that I have also had two implants (picture a dude standing on your face …

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Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Alibaba, says to get ready for 30 years of pain. Meanwhile, Bloomberg says there is an ugly side of getting rich and refers to this bizarre Chinese project: I guess both Jack Ma and Mayor Bloomberg are correct…much pain and real ugliness

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This post from venture capitalist Jerry Neuman is excellent and got me thinking once again about my chosen career? Investing in startups is way different than investing in stocks. I have sat with Chris Douvos myself (who Jerry talks about in the post) and he has asked the same question…’What Makes Me So Special?’. I …

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I really liked this piece by Ben Sasse on ‘The Challenge of Our Disruptive Era‘. I generally skim through the worrying and pessimism as it affects the dosage of meds I need to get through the day. This paragraph nails it: The rise of suburbia and exurbia, and the hollowing out of mediating institutions, is …

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