My Life As A CEO (And VC): Chief Psychologist

On 2010/09/07 By

After reading Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does, I find Mark Suster’s guest post on TechCrunch.

I’ve had a post in my head for months – maybe longer – about the role of a CEO. My primary role was “chief psychologist” and as I’ve learned over the past few [...]

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Seth Godin’s Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything

On 2010/05/25 By

The number of people you need to ask for permission keeps going down:

1. Go, make something happen.

2. Do work you’re proud of.

3. Treat people with respect.

4. Make big promises and keep them.

5. Ship it out the door.

When in doubt, see #1.

Seems simple and obvious right? [...]

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Ditch the Biz Plan, Buy a Lottery Ticket

On 2010/04/24 By

Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University.

In a Tech Crunch post, he suggests this:

“Hardly a day goes by when I [...]

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Google Translate for Animals

On 2010/03/31 By

Google Translate for Animals.

Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans

Making the world’s information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers [...]

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FTC to Internet Companies: Start Using SSL | Electronic Frontier Foundation

On 2010/03/19 By

It’s about time…

In a speech before an Federal Trade Commission roundtable yesterday, outgoing FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour called on Web services services like Yahoo!, Facebook and Hotmail to start using HTTPS/SSL encryption.

Google has recently shown leadership in this space, by enabling HTTPS for Gmail, as well as making it the default [...]

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