We are living in a critical moment in human history, as we witness the rise of artificial intelligence and machine...
RIP Silicon Valley
RIP the place that was Silicon Valley. Talent is fleeing the Bay Area at warp speed. Capital will flee too, but more...
Pro Tips for Coronavirus Safety
This was posted on FB by Ran Ma, founder/CEO of Siren Care. Her parents are doctors at the first hospital in...
Now is the Time to be Afraid
You probably saw the Sequioa memo. Today, I want to give you a more urgent message: BE VERY AFRAID. Your current level of alarm is not high enough.
Truth Decay
The truth is the first thing to go When you go from being powerless To powerful...
Buggeroaf Interview: “It’s Harder Than You Think”
This interview appeared in Bugger Oaf's substack on January 7, 2020 Greetings! Happy New Year 2020!! For our 2nd...
Abundance mindset
You don't need money or a rich family to become an entrepreneur. Taking the leap to start a company requires, more...
Anatomy of a (Good) Investor Update
Now that I'm an investor, I am on the receiving end of a lot of investor update emails from startups. Some are clear,...
The Challenge of Rolling Solo
Being a solo founder is hard. It's almost trite to say, but I'm in it and it's real. I'm not sure if it's just the...
Thanksgiving Letter to My Portfolio CEOs
Most people don’t get to work with people they admire so deeply. Most people don’t get to be as real with the people they work with. Most people do not get to be part of work that is so important.
Moral Courage: Not Taught at Harvard
An irony of facebook's situation. Sheryl got her MBA at Harvard. One of the most famous cases (Extra Strength Tylenol)...
How to Size a Market in 5 Minutes or Less
My basic approach to market sizing is this: # of potential customers x average selling price = Total Addressable...
Rape & Justice in America
In college, I was in a serious, loving relationship with a woman who had been drugged, bound and violently raped by a...
Poor. Hungry. Driven.
In hiring and investing, we are all biased. My bias? I bias toward and pattern match on PHDs: Poor. Hungry. Driven. I...
Why Generic Outsourced Assistant Services like Exec, Operator, Etc. Failed
High-frequency tasks: Better to hire an expert High-value tasks: Better to hire an expert What’s left: low-frequency,...
14 Lessons Learned from Year #1 as a Startup Investor
Lessons I’ve learned investing so far: 1) FOMO is real. You have to make a conscious effort to not let it affect your...
Looking Back: Startup Investing Year #1
I wrote my first check to a startup on April 11, 2017. Since then, I've invested in 16 startups via my personal money...
To the Dreamers: a Thank You
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of...
Alone on Thanksgiving? Come to My House.
Do you not have Thanksgiving Plans? New in town? Are you wondering WTF you are going to do on Thursday? Feeling broke...
Betting Against the American Dream (in San Francisco)
My friend Matt Pasienski, a Physics PhD, just announced he's moving to Mexico and leaving San Francisco behind. Here's...
You’re always gaining credibility… or losing credibility.
"Should we fire the CEO?" That's the question at the heart of every board meeting. It's the only thing I can really do...
Alone on Thanksgiving? Come to My House.
Do you not have Thanksgiving Plans? New in town? Are you wondering WTF you are going to do tonight? Feeling broke and...
People, like businesses, want predictable revenue.
The "gig economy" is part of a shift toward higher resolution careers that has been happening for decades. — Paul...
The Greece Situation
Here's what I would do if I was running Greece right now... I would vote "no" vote in the recent Greek referendum. I...
Getting Unstuck
"The only difference between Elite Entrepreneurs and those just getting started is the amount of time we stay stuck."...
Letter to a Fired Founder
A friend of mine just got fired from his startup. As a founder, he was classy, loyal and relentless. He behaved like a...
Ask for the Money
I have a technique for asking investors for money. At the end of the pitch meeting, I ask: "So... are you in?" It's...
No One Is Self-Made
Fatherhood has changed me. In my pre-fatherhood twenties, I thought of myself as a self-made man. I viewed the world...
Goodbye, Alarm Clock. How I Hacked Google Calendar to Call My Phone in the Mornings.
How I Hacked Google Calendar to Call My Phone in the Mornings in just 12 easy steps.
A Christmas Gift for My Dad
How I created the perfect computer setup for my nearly blind, 85 year old dad. Hint: We turned a 52″ flat screen TV into a computer monitor.
Mission Driven Companies Do It Better.
Mission driven companies do it better. They execute better. They scale faster. They grow quicker. In my first company,...
Be Kind. It Pays.
The best investors are the most focused on building long-term relationships with people. The worst investors are the most transactional, the most focused on the deal, on the what you can do for me right now.
Announcing Marketplace Talks: On-Stage Interviews With The World’s Best Marketplace Entrepreneuers
I'm proud to announce my involvement in Marketplace Talks, the world's #1 meetup for marketplace startups,...
Morality is a Luxury Good
War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. -Carl Von Clausewitz Morality is a...
To Commerce! To Freedom! To the Open Internet!
I sent this letter to the Federal Communication Commission just a few minutes ago. I encourage you to do something...
The New Fast Food – The Rise of the Delivery-Only, Mobile-First Restaurant Chain
I was trying to understand why food startups are so hot when I ran across the following two charts. In the image,...
Farewell to All That
"Each time you crest the rise in front of you, it just makes it clear the size of the even larger hill that looms...
Knowing When to Flip.
Magazines take your photo. Venture Capitalists offer to invest over email. Billionaires smoke weed in your living...
Humility the Hard Way
So much of the best advice is impossible to hear when you are first starting out. Success feels within our grasp, just...
Race, Ethnicity & Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley favors the brash and the brilliant. If you have a pedigree and a network (e.g. if you studied Computer...
How to Negotiate Price Without Being a Jerk
If you've never done it before, price negotiations are easy to fuck up, especially when you need to have a...
Be Grateful for the American Empire (the Alternative is Much Worse)
A friend of mine living in Pakistan took to Facebook to grumble about American imperialism in her country and the...
A Letter to My Son
Luca's school asked me to write him a letter for mail day. I asked if I could send an email instead. They said 'yes.'...
Valediction, Memorial Day
Thanks to all the military veterans out there. You put your ass on the line, be it for freedom or some politician's...
A Good Startup CEO
A good startup CEO sets the direction, the mission and the unit of measure, then empowers his team to figure out the...
There Are No Rules. You Are Alone
"There are no rules. Don't let anyone tell you any different." -Jim Everingham Perhaps the biggest lesson I...
Naked in the Mirror
“You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs It's easy to forget that lesson...
How Are You Going to Win?
"How are you going to win? It’s not going to come from blog posts or angel money – it’s going to come from having a...
Co-Founders
Tomorrow is one of my old co-founder's birthday. My phone reminded me. Unfortunately, we no longer speak. The end of...
The Minimum Viable Startup
I am the founder of a beer & booze delivery service called Swig! We partner with licensed brick & mortar...
Blogging Again
I've decided to start blogging again after a year-long hiatus. I used to blog at The Metamorphosis, decided to act on...
Home Alone on Thanksgiving? I Saved You a Seat.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! If you're in San Francisco and alone on this special day, drop me a line. We'd love to...
Becoming a Father
On March 7, 2012, I became a father. I think often of what this means. I look at my son in awe. I was once him. My...
Destroying Value
Sarah Lacy is the best writer in tech. Hands down. And 3 days ago, TechCrunch/AOL lost her. What a goddamn shame.
Outsiders, Insiders & Disruptive Technology
I spent Sunday at the first-ever NYC video hack day. It was awesome. So many startups. So much energy. After the...
Facebook & the Future
Facebook is not a "social networking" company; Facebook is an identity company. Your data is their castle; your friend...
Becoming a CEO. Yeah, I Suck.
There’s a lot I suck at. I’m bad at financial calculations. My Excel proficiency is amateur, at best. I don’t know...
Shit Happening is Predictable, So Stop Dicking Around and Close (Part II)
I originally posted this and the preceding post, Stop Dicking Around and Close: Lessons from the $24M Fundraising...
Stop Dicking Around and Close: Lessons from the $24M Fundraising #Fail
"You can't play the man's game? You can't close them? Then tell your wife your troubles. 'Cause only one thing counts...
My Old Town
I've watched New York grow up from afar. In May of 2010, I moved out of my apartment in Harlem. I was broke. My...
Little Things That Hold Women Back
There is a glaring shortage of women in the field of technology entrepreneurship. The industry, in fact, is often...
The Scrappy Mofo’s Guide to Raising Money (VIDEO)
After having given this spiel to nearly a dozen entrepreneurs face-to-face and haranguing Nivi & Naval to do it...
Be My Assistant
I'm hiring an assistant. If you're interested in the role, first email me your resume, then create a slide...
Asking the Right Questions
I came home from work grinning with pride. Fridays are now "Code Review" days at SpeakerText. Each Code Review, a...
The “Outsider” Strategy
In college, I studied spent a lot of time studying warfighting strategies in the context of international security and...
Mémoires of My Early Twenties
I ran across Chateaupia this week. It's a documentary about Le Chateau, a place I lived as a UC Berkeley student in...
Technology Hucksters
"I had a false idea about what Silicon Valley was. The myth of Silicon Valley is about technical competence, but the...
Chip On My Shoulder
UPDATE: Investors are still giving me shit for this and it's pissing me off. Look people, I asked a legit question...
Finding a Technical Co-Founder
http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com/
Coming of Age as an Entrepreneur
Well it was just a dream Just a moment ago I think back to the Winter of 2008-2009. SpeakerText was a few months old....
Why I Love Hip Hop, America
I grew up in Orange County. I was corn fed on punk rock. When I was 17, I saw Rage Against the Machine at Irvine...
AngelList: The Best Thing for Startups Since…the Internet
AngelList is essentially a public market for private, early-stage tech stocks––without actually being a transaction...
Guns, Government & the Fallacy of Cyber-Utopianism
TLDR version: The idea that technology by itself can change the world is a delusion. For technology to have an impact...
Hustlers Wanted
SpeakerText needs help. Seriously. The amount of non-technical work and stuff we need to do to make SpeakerText...
How Well-Intentioned Lawyers from a Blue Chip Firm Almost Ruined My Startup
People who say that lawyers are a commodity good don't know what the hell they're talking about. Lawyers are not a...
Open Letter to the SEC: Angel Investors
I submitted this comment to the Securities & Exchange Commission after seeing this: Is The SEC Going To Significantly...
Startups Ain’t Always Pretty (and that’s Normal)
Caterina Fake is leaving Hunch. Or something like that. (A brief overview is on Quora. Last night, as I was reflecting...
Communicating a Vision
I remember seeing this interview with Carol Bartz at TC Disrupt: NYC (above). Arrington: What is Yahoo? Bartz: What is...
Team Magic
We've been living together for almost 5 months now. I am fairly organized when it comes to work, but I'm not what...
Fred Wilson
Why I Became an Entrepreneur (the Long Story)
This is a post about growing up. My parents are an old school latin couple: My mom (b. 1938) grew up in a small town...
Bus In the Hackers: NYC Startup Weekend
After two months of the SpeakerCave in Pittsburgh, I now officially live with my co-founders in Silicon Valley. But...
Shit You Don’t Do at Your Normal Job
Matt Mireles, Matt Swanson and Tyler Kieft Push co-founder to 7-11 in a shopping cart.
Cross Country Roadtrip, in Pictures
First, we packed. And before we could pack, we had to partake in a ritual drinking of the undrunk wine. M1 slugging...
R.I.P. SpeakerCar
When you have no money and you need a car, you get SpeakerCar. M2 sold her last week for $350––less than the price of...
“The Respectable One”
This is my co-founder, Tyler Kieft, a.k.a. "the Respectable One."
SpeakerScrappy: Matt Swanson
Matt Swanson tries to sleep. Tyler Kieft looks on. These are my co-founders. We are SpeakerText.
The Case for Talking Shit on Wall Street
My friend Ben Siscovick wrote an interesting blog post today entitled Stop Shitting on Wall Street. There is way too...
The SpeakerCave Genesis
On June 1, 2010, I moved into the SpeakerCave. This wasn't the plan A, mind you––more like plan C––but at least it was...
Chris Dixon, Pissing Off/On Incumbents & VC Marketing
A friend of mine is a partner at a large VC firm. He's an awesome dude and today we got into a debate about this...
Duty & Failure
I ran across this "shutting down" letter from a YC startup called NewsLabs. Here's the crux:As I'm...
The Symbiosis Between Machine Learning & Crowdsourcing
This is from Quora. My answer is below...When is machine learning better than crowdsourcing?While it depends on the...
My Mohawk and Being the SpeakerText CEO
After seeing the constant pants-jizzing on Twitter by Keith Rabois about Quora, I finally signed up and started using...
The Importance of Reputation and Personal Brand
In case you missed it, Saturday was fight night in NYC: VC-on-VC, Dixon vs. Robinson. Robinson as in Jim...
The VC Carried-Interest Tax Debate
Today was an exciting day on Twitter. Huge debate/fight regarding the proposed "Carried Interest" tax...
Here's an example of SpeakerText in action. The that's great thing about it. Look at what we're doing...I...
Naval on GigaOM TV
Nurturing the Entrepreneur DNA
I've been thinking a lot lately about how we improve some of the structural issues with NYC as an entrepreneurial...
Entrepreneur and Investor Alignment
In the matrix, the green represents good alignment, the yellow represents ok but keep watch, and the red represents...
The City of Founders Without Hackers
Every startup in NYC is looking for developers. Literally: Every. Single. One. And this is a problem. New York City...
Patent Absurdity
Video: Patent Absurdity - Dokumentarfilm (28:54) Hat tip to Fred Wilson
Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street?
Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? By James Kwak That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago by Ezra...
Fighting Information Asymmetry (i.e. Why I Love Venture Hacks)
We were in the trenches together. We fought for every customer together. Hell – we fought against the...
Mark Pincus on VC–Entrepreneur Alignment
Zynga founder and CEO Mark Pincus put it very well to me when he said, “I tell entrepreneurs: don't be a...
Why Founders MUST Blog
Want to Break into Startups or VC? Apr 27, 2010 at 2:52pm Quick post for people reading this blog who are interested...
The To Do List for Founders
Venture Hacks had this GREAT To Do List for founders. I saw it and just had to share... 1) Move to Silicon Valley. 2)...
The Problem with Online Education
I worked for many years as a paramedic in Harlem and the South Bronx. For a lot of the people I worked with, EMS was...
Founder Bloggers Wanted
Vin Turk wrote a comment on my last post on creating a more Founder-Centric Narrative: After reading the post,...
What NYC Needs: A New Narrative
Roger Ehrenberg of Information Arbitrage Capital recently wrote a great post entitled: For the Good of the NYC Venture...
Hiring & Loss Aversion Jujitsu
I originally wrote this as an email to my co-founders. It has been edited. Enjoy. Commitment is a hard thing to...
People > Money
I am not a rich man. I'd like to be (one day), but I am not now. When I am, I will have more shit and travel more...
The peHUB Interview
SpeakerText Founder Matt Mireles on Becoming Famous Overnight, Fundraising, and Why He’s Soon Ditching New York for...
The Perils of Being Outside the Valley
Ahh, the ironies of life. When I started talking to investors in New York about SpeakerText––not even trying to...
How I Judge Investors
Pitching your startup to investors is a deeply personal matter. More often than not, they––politely or...
Why we should be thankful that we live in a world in which VCs exist
Why we should be thankful that we live in a world in which VCs exist, even if they yell at us during board meetings,...
Announcing the NYC Startup Job Fair
My prayers have been answered! There is now an official NYC Startup Job Fair scheduled for Friday, April 9th, from...
Why the NYC Startup Scene is Hot (Hint: Not Fred Wilson)
Stowe Boyd of True/Slant has a new blog on the NYC Startup Scene called Hotbed. This is an awesome development....
Headlines
Funny thing happened last week.The post I wrote, NYC vs Silicon Valley, kinda blew up and set off wave of dicussion in...
NYC Startups Need an Independent Press
Last night, Cody Brown wrote: I can say that personally, I learn about NYC tech news almost purely from a collection...
David Rose: Why NY Angels Charges Entrepreneurs
The reason we charge a fee is because we're between a rock and a hard place. The unfortunate but accurate fact is...
Comfortable with Uncertainty
Comfortable with Uncertainty Posted on: Friday, February 26th, 2010 When do you know? I mean, really know? Slumped...
Is NY Angels a Pay-to-Play Scheme?
UPDATE: David S. Rose, Chairman of the NY Angels, responded in the comments below and I broke it out into its own...
NYC vs Silicon Valley
There's been a lot written lately about the NYC startup scene. It's exploding. It's hot. Etc. And all that...
Mike Maples is the Shiznit
I wanna pitch this guy. Just, umm, yeah. My kind of dude.(Wish Vimeo's API could play nice with SpeakerText....
Picking a Startup Lawyer in NYC
After spending a considerable amount of time scouring the scene for startup-oriented law firms in New York City, I...
Hubris & the Meaning of Life
This post is a follow up on my previous post: A Rigged Game, which itself was a response to Jordan...
Well, I tried to Flip Off Google Street View…
View Larger MapAlmost worked....
Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder
I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And...
Mental Toughness
Back in 2004, before I lived in New York City or attended Columbia or even dreamed of starting a company, I fought...
A Rigged Game
I wrote this post as a comment in response to Jordan Cooper's original post, entitled: Full of Potential =...
Dear Startup Lawyers, Please Blog.
As an entrepreneur, I've long been befuddled by the utter lack of transparency and overall opacity of the market...
The Apocalypse Startup: A How To Guide (Part 2)
I founded SpeakerText during the financial apocalypse of October 2008. We launched the company in January 2010 after...
The Apocalypse Startup: A How To Guide (Part 1)
I founded SpeakerText during the financial apocalypse of October 2008. We launched earlier this month after burning...
Nepotism at Union Square Ventures?
I made a disturbing discovery this week: Fred Wilson, Managing Partner at Union Square...
How to raise money without lying to investors – Venture Hacks
VCs and entrepreneurs collaborate to lie about the future Instead of bringing entrepreneurs back down to earth, some...
Wanted: NYC Startup Job Fair
UPDATE: My prayers have been answered! There is now an official NYC Startup Job Fair happening on Friday, April 9th at...
SpeakerText Lets You Watch Videos and Read Text from Videos
I can think of a few ways that I could utilize SpeakerText. The site allows you to watch videos from YouTube and...
Reflections on a Decade
Ten Years Ago today I just had just turned nineteen. With a single semester at UC Berkeley under my belt, I was...
This Moment in History: Unprecedented Leverage
Today was an exciting day, as we (the SpeakerText team) spent the morning getting interviewed by New York Magazine for...
Mobile Computing: The iPhone and Beyond
It's not by accident that everyone in the SpeakerText team has either an iPhone or a Droid. Even the hotshot...
SpeakerText Gets Its First Press…
You've probably never heard of Matt Mireles and Bjorn Liljequist but with a $4000 dollar budget and an engineering...
User Happiness
When customers are faced with a challenge — a gap in their knowledge, a website that’s not intuitive to navigate, a...
New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
"The new device is an improvement over the old device, making it more attractive for purchase by all...
Company Math vs VC Math
It is the same "VC math" which drives a VC to seek to deploy a larger amount of capital into a...
Online Payments, Friction and the Downside of Diversity
My homeboy Chris Dixon wrote a thoughtful post entitled: "Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on...
The Need for Achievement
I had a great conversation with Brad Feld today in the comments on his blog post: An Honorable Run and American Power....
Location, Mobile and a Business Model for the New York Times
I was chatting over coffee today with Jim Schachter of the NY Times, updating him on Speakertext's progress and...
Openness, Evil and Google
Chris Dixon has a great post today on Google's hypocrisy regarding openness. I think the title says it all: Google...
Seizing Opportunity
Mark Suster has been killing it lately over at Both Sides of the Table. This gem is from a post entitled...
Hiring & The Benefits of Radical Transparency
This post is a follow-on to The Scrappy Startup: Asset or Liability? TechCrunch has a great post today by Vivek...
SpeakerText to Launch at Jan. NY Tech Meetup
This just in...SpeakerText, the company I founded in October 2008 amidst the global economic apocalypse, will...
The Scrappy Startup: Asset or Liability?
Mark Suster had a great post recently on "What Makes an Entrepreneur" and the role of street smarts, the...
The Startup Founder Visa
I sent this email to my congressman today. I urge you all to learn about and support the Startup Founder Visa...
CHARLIE ROSE: Tell me about “Mafia Wars.” MARK PINCUS: Sure, so “Mafia Wars’” is a game where you form a mafia with...
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
I heard something today that made me think about the problems facing the newspaper business specifically and the media...
The YouTube Revolution
The revolution may not be televised, but it is being broadcast. And that itself is revolutionary. I saw Neda die for...
Fred Wilson: The Disruption Talk
Student Loans & the American Dream
Education is the primary source of class-mobility in America. And class mobility––along with the ability to...
Google: Bad for Newspapers, Good for the World
This is a response to a Matthew Ingraham's post "Google helps newspapers––period." over at the Nieman...
America, a Banana Republic?
Welcome to America, the World's Scariest Emerging MarketFrom Desmond Lachman, former Deputy Director of the...
The Problem with Vanilla News: a Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
After graduating from Columbia last May, I spent the summer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in...
Matt Mireles, Crime Fighter?
Ok, so this has absolutely nothing to do with journalism, economics or technology, but i thought I'd share...
Newspaper Death Map
From NYT's Richard Perez-Peña: But now, some economists and newspaper executives say it is only a matter of...
Planned Obsolescence
Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, published a story about a conversation he had with "a big music label...
The Economy, She is a Changin’ (Permanently)
The economy, she is a changing, or so say our friends at The New York Times:The unemployment rate surged...
Google and the Life Cycle of Ideas
Highlights of Google VP Marissa Mayer on the Charlie Rose Show (VIDEO). Complete interview with transcript is on...
John Stewart Slams CNBC (VIDEO)
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cCNBC Gives Financial AdviceDaily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things...
Reid Hoffman = (Passion*Vision) + Brains
Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn, on the Charlie Rose Show (VIDEO); courtesy of TechCrunch. I dunno how,...
Stimulus for Startups
Today, Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn, offered a creative, entrepreneurially -focused stimulus plan for...
The Banking Bailout, Explained
NPR's This American Life came out with the latest installment of their absolutely excellent series about the...
The Math Equation that Destroyed the World
Last week, Wired came out with "Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street." The cover story,...
The Man Who Convinced Me to Twitter
Back in January I first saw this Robert Scoble interview with Guy Kawasaki, the startup guru. Now, I...
General Motors, Wealth Destruction Machine
There are those in this society that create wealth, that turn nothing into something, that turn $1million into...
Social Networking with Charlie Rose
Marc Andreessen, Netscape and Ning Founder, LinkedIn Angel Investor, Facebook Investor and Board Member, talks with...
The Propeller Head’s Dilemna
Image via WikipediaSorry to focus so much attention on the Times, but NYT had a great conversation piece yesterday...
Newsgathering in the Darwinian Environment, p2
Politico is a niche publication––as is this one, although their niche is probably a lot larger and more lucrative than...
NYT Share Price Costs Less Than the Sunday Paper
From CrossingWallStreet.... Shares of NYT (NYT) dropped 29 cents today to close at $3.77. The Sunday paper costs $4....
Japanese Finance Minister Gets Soused, Steals Show at G-7
Newsgathering in the Darwinian Environment, p1
Oftentimes, journos blame "the internet" for the newspaper industry's demise. But in truth, it's not the internet...
Creative Destruction: Politico vs. WaPo
The New Republic came out with a great piece on Politico and how it's made itself into a first-rate news org and...
Hello, Nativism. Goodbye, Prosperity.
Apparently the Obama administration, via DOJ, is cracking down on high tech workers and supposed H1-B visas abuse....
Labor Relations in the Digital Age: Speaking Geek
I had a really interesting conversation last week with David Cohn, aka DigiDave, of the crowdfunded reporting...
Ayn Rand Making a Comeback?
My man Dave Brooks at NYT wrote a prescient if satirical piece about the dangers of nationalization and the growth of...
NYT and the Printed News
Under the headline, "Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle," Nick...
First Principles
My name is Matt Mireles. I am a entrepreneur. I started this blog because a) I care about ideas and b) because it...