From me to you
by Taylor Davidson, $4/month
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100 - You are now unsubscribed
Sent Monday, January 9th 2012, 1:25pm
99 - The crowd + venture funding. What can go wrong?
Sent Monday, January 9th 2012, 6:00am
98 - "Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options."
Sent Sunday, December 18th 2011, 7:05pm
97 - The Theory of the Nine Rakes
Sent Thursday, December 15th 2011, 8:30pm
96 - "No Copyright Intended"
Sent Monday, December 12th 2011, 8:30am
95 - Why is Goldman Sachs doing direct VC investing? (Beyond the knee-jerk response)
Sent Wednesday, December 7th 2011, 12:35pm
94 - In case you missed it
Sent Thursday, December 1st 2011, 11:05am
93 - Monetizing Intent Engines
Sent Wednesday, November 30th 2011, 4:55pm
92 - Tim Tebow and the Minimum Viable Offense
Sent Tuesday, November 29th 2011, 6:55pm
91 - Changed Perspectives
Sent Monday, November 28th 2011, 5:10pm
90 - Why does everyone want to break the Internet?
Sent Friday, November 18th 2011, 3:50pm
89 - Cool Email Tools
Sent Wednesday, November 16th 2011, 8:25pm
88 - The history of Groupon's financing will be a fascinating read someday.
Sent Friday, November 11th 2011, 8:15am
87 - The best technology fades into the background
Sent Monday, November 7th 2011, 4:15pm
86 - Why it's hard to get paid for free, and how to do it.
Sent Sunday, November 6th 2011, 1:30pm
85 - 7 Responses to "Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity"
Sent Monday, October 24th 2011, 8:55pm
84 - Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity
Sent Friday, October 21st 2011, 10:45am
83 - Starting, building and ending: all deserve to be celebrated.
Sent Friday, October 21st 2011, 6:10am
82 - "It's not a cash crunch, it's Darwinism."
Sent Wednesday, October 19th 2011, 7:50pm
81 - The balance of power between Groupon, Zynga and Airbnb and their potential investors
Sent Tuesday, October 18th 2011, 4:30am
80 - "I want a to-do list for my city. Let me tell myself what I want to do in a future place, time or situation, then remind when I'm there and then."
Sent Sunday, October 16th 2011, 8:25am
79 - Finding Student / Teacher Fit
Sent Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 2:30pm
78 - "Pirates never get hangovers cause they never stop drinking."
Sent Friday, October 7th 2011, 12:00pm
77 - Entrepreneurial Frame - Turning a Service into a Product
Sent Wednesday, October 5th 2011, 2:10pm
76 - Two keys to collaborating, for photographers and startups.
Sent Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 9:30pm
75 - What startups are drawing the most interest on @SecondMarket?
Sent Wednesday, September 28th 2011, 9:25am
74 - Investing in Startup Index Funds
Sent Tuesday, September 27th 2011, 7:55pm
73 - Hone your craft.
Sent Saturday, September 24th 2011, 1:15pm
72 - Meaning gaps as "Unjoined narrative elements"
Sent Monday, September 19th 2011, 11:45am
71 - Are you ready for Facebook's alternative to Adsense?
Sent Friday, September 16th 2011, 9:25am
70 - The bubble is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed. And that's a good thing.
Sent Friday, September 16th 2011, 6:00am
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Sent Wednesday, September 14th 2011, 11:25pm
68 - Feature gaps, product gaps, business gaps, market gaps, meanings gaps - Know which gap you're filling.
Sent Sunday, September 11th 2011, 6:25pm
67 - "When in doubt, lean forward."
Sent Friday, September 9th 2011, 9:40am
66 - "Sleep No More"
Sent Wednesday, September 7th 2011, 7:35pm
65 - Foursquare and Hurricanepocalypse 2011
Sent Monday, August 29th 2011, 12:50pm
64 - Hardware is the new software (Part 2)
Sent Thursday, August 25th 2011, 3:50pm
63 - One thing I don't do.
Sent Thursday, August 25th 2011, 5:20am
62 - Lift, Epic, and Habit: Technology companies built to solve human problems.
Sent Wednesday, August 24th 2011, 2:55pm
61 - Let SXSW PanelPicker Season begin!
Sent Monday, August 22nd 2011, 7:55pm
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Sent Wednesday, August 17th 2011, 11:05pm
59 - The art of accounting for new business models (Part 2)
Sent Monday, August 15th 2011, 4:10pm
58 - The real challenges technology companies face today are human, not technical.
Sent Monday, August 8th 2011, 4:30am
57 - How I find the 5 most important links for me to read every day
Sent Thursday, August 4th 2011, 1:10pm
56 - "Let Wall Street have them."
Sent Sunday, July 31st 2011, 3:35pm
55 - Why, and how, to invest in small innovations and trivial startups
Sent Friday, July 29th 2011, 11:50am
54 - "Dear Sir ... Honestly, I think you're lovely."
Sent Thursday, July 21st 2011, 10:15pm
53 - Dodging Zombies
Sent Tuesday, July 19th 2011, 1:00pm
52 - How Moneyball was the precursor to the Lean Startup methodology.
Sent Monday, July 18th 2011, 7:15pm
51 - The art of accounting for new business models, hidden deep inside S-1s.
Sent Friday, July 15th 2011, 2:35pm
50 - Recapping a morning working with the MicroInterns
Sent Thursday, July 14th 2011, 11:45am
49 - CORRECTION - Why the asymmetric share is the key to Google+
Sent Thursday, July 14th 2011, 7:00am
48 - Why the asynchronous follow is the key to Google+
Sent Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 7:35am
47 - Risk capital flows through relationships (talking about venture capital and Afghanistan).
Sent Thursday, June 23rd 2011, 9:05am
46 - Can OpenPhoto unbundle the photo industry?
Sent Tuesday, June 21st 2011, 7:20am
45 - Following up about the Accredited Investor Rule (Part 2)
Sent Monday, June 20th 2011, 6:10am
44 - What's the point of the accredited investor rule?
Sent Friday, June 17th 2011, 5:25am
43 - What's the difference between Profounder and AngelList?
Sent Wednesday, June 15th 2011, 4:15am
42 - Extending the thoughts on Groupon (i.e. Part 2)
Sent Tuesday, June 7th 2011, 6:15am
41 - Investing in @Groupon is a bet on their team and their ability to innovate, not on their existing economics.
Sent Monday, June 6th 2011, 7:55am
40 - Will the re-opening of the first market kill Second Market?
Sent Friday, June 3rd 2011, 4:50am
39 - Why "the filter bubble" is (mostly) hogwash.
Sent Friday, May 20th 2011, 5:55am
Startup accelerators are universities for startups. That's why ranking them is a flawed endeavor.
Sent Monday, May 2nd 2011, 1:05pm
37 - Are deals, distribution or data the key to "daily deals"?
Sent Thursday, April 28th 2011, 9:45am
36 - Information, Intelligence, and Wisdom. There's a business in every part of the stack.
Sent Tuesday, April 26th 2011, 5:25pm
35 - Comparing lifestage apps, life-event apps and niche product strategies
Sent Tuesday, April 19th 2011, 4:35pm
34 - How a single sentence changed the way I see.
Sent Sunday, April 10th 2011, 12:15pm
33 - Why are we uncomfortable about telling people where we are?
Sent Wednesday, April 6th 2011, 4:30am
32 - How iTunes and Angry Birds have conditioned people to use mobile payments.
Sent Wednesday, March 30th 2011, 4:45am
#31 - The AT&T /T-Mobile deal is about spectrum. Should a corporate acquisition be the most economically efficient way to acquire more spectrum?
Sent Monday, March 28th 2011, 9:15am
Would you think differently about Color if it was a new Facebook feature?
Sent Wednesday, March 23rd 2011, 8:30pm
Observations on the future of entertainment media
Sent Wednesday, March 23rd 2011, 2:15pm
#28 - Combining aspirational and practical perspectives, and the necessary hiccups.
Sent Thursday, March 17th 2011, 10:10am
27 - I'll buy shares in a SecondMarket index fund. Who will be the first to create one?
Sent Wednesday, March 16th 2011, 2:50pm
26 - Hardware is the new software. Entrepreneurs and investors, get on board.
Sent Friday, March 11th 2011, 8:10am
#25 - The Missing Loop in Health Hacking Technology and Communities.
Sent Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 8:35am
#24 - The closest thing to venture fundrasing from the masses is a Kickstarter project. (i.e. Kickstarter and NeighborGoods)
Sent Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 1:35pm
#23 - AngelList, and how disrupting information asymmetries reallocates returns
Sent Monday, February 28th 2011, 2:55pm
#22 - Checking in.
Sent Friday, February 25th 2011, 10:50am
#21 - How to Choose An Incubator. (Outlining 15 Types of Support Structures for Early-Stage Businesses.)
Sent Thursday, February 24th 2011, 12:45pm
#20 - Is Silicon Valley selling out its future? Knowledge flows follow capital flows. (i.e. DST and Yuri Milner)
Sent Wednesday, February 23rd 2011, 11:40am
#19 - Venture capital and private markets: Investing in posters, betting on trend lines.
Sent Tuesday, February 22nd 2011, 3:35pm
#18 - There are no more Australias? There are no more big innovations? Hardly. Always trust the unknown unknown.
Sent Tuesday, February 22nd 2011, 12:40pm
The rich invest in the private, and cash out to the public. How is this good for the US?
Sent Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 9:20am
Innovation and entrepreneurship aren't the same. I hope Startup America realizes that.
Sent Monday, February 7th 2011, 3:35pm
The White House cashes in on entrepreneurship (i.e. Startup America).
Sent Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, 1:20pm
US early-stage investors got out-innovated by a foreigner. Again.
Sent Sunday, January 30th 2011, 10:20pm
Why Obama's State of the Union Address justifies the need for a write() API for government.
Sent Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 10:50am
New payment methods will not kill credit cards, but may relegate them to a "dumb pipe".
Sent Tuesday, January 25th 2011, 8:25am
Money doesn't equal relevance. How venture capital's recent struggles point to the decreasing relevance of IPOs.
Sent Monday, January 24th 2011, 11:01am
Goldman blinked on the Facebook offering. But will another investment bank take the risk?
Sent Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 2:26pm
Goldman pulls Facebook offering from US clients. Bad for US investors. Bad for US markets. Good for US companies?
Sent Monday, January 17th 2011, 10:36am
TripIt got bought. Do you remember when Dopplr got bought?
Sent Friday, January 14th 2011, 12:50pm
For whom is influence important?
Sent Friday, January 14th 2011, 7:25am
Measuring influence takes a bit of science and a bit of art. Let's not forget the art.
Sent Thursday, January 13th 2011, 8:15pm
How do we solve the last-mile problem for entrepreneurs in highly regulated industries?
Sent Thursday, January 13th 2011, 1:30pm
It's difficult to value what's inside the black box.
Sent Thursday, January 6th 2011, 7:00am
Would you charge people to access your Facebook if you could?
Sent Wednesday, January 5th 2011, 6:05am
Bankers always maneuver faster than regulators (Facebook and Wall Street)
Sent Monday, January 3rd 2011, 6:30am
The kids are alright.
Sent Wednesday, December 22nd 2010, 10:44pm