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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, explains why he will be donating all proceeds from the sale of his upcoming book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers to the American Jewish World Service to support their efforts to help women fight for their basic rights throughout the world.
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The Personal Computer, known as the PC, is a type of computer designed for everyday use by everyday people.
Apple introduced the first PC, the Macintosh, 30 years ago yesterday – read the annotated text of the unveiling here!
When people say that we are entering the “post-personal computer” era, they don’t mean that computers won’t be ‘personal’, as Spiegel seems to suggest, but rather that products such as tablets or perhaps even wearable computing devices like Google Glass will come to replace the PC – a computer with a keyboard.
In fact, these other devices could very well be considered “more-personal”, through contextually specific search, and their ability to work with objects of the internet of things, but they will be markedly different from the ‘PC’.
Below, Steve Jobs speaks about the Post PC Era
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfJ3QxJYsw8
In fact, a scientific study recently discovered that most of us think the computer will be extinct – like the mighty dinosaur before it – by 2016…
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Andrew Badr, founder and organizer of the San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup, writes about why Dogecoin is important.
Originally posted here
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Co-founder and CEO Biz Stone announces Greylock Partners' investment in Jelly.
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Josh Elman, a partner at Greylock Partners, explains why the venture capital firm has invested and led Jelly’s Series B Round (originally posted here.)
For context, read Jelly co-founder Biz Stone’s annotated text introducing Jelly.
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In a post shared on Facebook, CEO and Co-Founder Josh Miller announced that Facebook would be acquiring his startup Branch – and with that link sharing service Potluck – to help “people connect with others around their interests.”
The Verge reported that Branch and Potluck were acquired for approximately $15M.
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In this blog post, Amanda Peyton reflects on her past year as CEO and Co-Founder of Grand St. – a startup created to help consumers understand, fall in love with, and purchase creative technology.
The online marketplace sells everything from vibrators to vaporizers, along with soldering kits and a variety of open-source hardware products.
Amanda Peyton, Grand St. CEO and Co-Founder
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Walker & Company Brands emerged from Tristan Walker’s time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Andreessen Horowitz.
Jason Del Rey of AllThingsD called the startup a “next-generation Proctor and Gamble for people of color.”
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In a blog post published on January 8th 2014, the co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone introduced his latest company, Jelly.
We chose the jellyfish to represent our product because it has a loose network of nerves that act as a “brain” similar to the way we envision loosely distributed networks of people coordinating via Jelly to help each other.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTNfIaL5YI
At the time, Apple’s decision to launch retail stores was panned. In the Businessweek article “Sorry, Steve: Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work”, Cliff Edwards writes:
Indeed, rather than taking on the retailers who ought to be its partners, Apple would do better improving how it works with them.
David Goldstein, president of research outfit Channel Marketing, was less than optimistic of their retail strategy:
“I give them two years before they’re turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake,” says Goldstein.
How did the retail experiment work out by 2012?
