Business
I ran across this "shutting down" letter from a YC startup called NewsLabs. Here's the crux:As I'm sure you've noticed not much has been happening with the site recently. I'm very sorry to report that this is because NewsLabs is ending. As...
Business
This is from Quora. My answer is below…When is machine learning better than crowdsourcing?While it depends on the complexity of the task and the desired quality of the results, if you need to guarantee high quality results, it is best to augment ML...
Business, Life
After seeing the constant pants-jizzing on Twitter by Keith Rabois about Quora, I finally signed up and started using the service. Today I got this question…Matt Mireles, As a CEO, do you find that your mohawk has a positive, negative or no impact on how you are...
Business
In case you missed it, Saturday was fight night in NYC: VC-on-VC, Dixon vs. Robinson. Robinson as in Jim Robinson IV, managing partner at RRE Ventures. Dixon as in Chris Dixon, founder of Hunch and partner at Founder Collective. The sparks were...
Business, Politics
Today was an exciting day on Twitter. Huge debate/fight regarding the proposed "Carried Interest" tax treatment for private equity and venture capital fund managers. I mostly sat on the sidelines and retweeted the excitement (Chris Dixon told Jim Robinson IV...
