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Manual food processor for efficient and gentle food preparation.

An entertaining overbuild #DIY robot for peeling garlic cloves using a drill.

E23 "Angel": Matt Ocko Data Collective: deep tech w/algorithmic edge, difficult markets, seed, risks.

Steve Blank Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad.

30 Legendary Startup Pitch Decks And What You Can Learn From Them.

If you want to be massively successful, do NOT set ambitious goals, according to studies.

Amazing. Future of HCI.

Early Startups: how to calculate how much you should raise in your first/next round in 2018.

Fundraising math for people who would rather be building.

The “mirror” of Fascism makes us look & feel much more beautiful than we really are.

Fractal Lab.

How to reach Alpha Centauri in just 20 years - Documentary 2018 HD.

A Crash Course: Bill-Of-Materials (BOM) // Scott Miller, Dragon Innovation [FirstMark's Hardwired].

Go to the 16min mark for some laughs about consultants.

YC’s Series A Diligence Checklist.

See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund.

A short note.

Design Principles.

Your Company’s Culture is Who You Hire, Fire, & Promote.

The Amazon machine.

A founder's bookshelf: fewer miracles, more margin notes.

My Favorite Books for Starting & Scaling Up – Matt Moore – Medium.

Young Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people - MUST WATCH.

Because your direct reports are not Jira tickets.

Don’t Forget These Topics in Your 1:1s as a Manager.

Why now.

Through Stanford brain research, the depressed feel 'whole' again.

A gentle reminder that culture fit is not a substitute for knowing Big O.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Explains Why We Love Some Companies And Fear Others.

15+ Ways a Venture Capitalist Says “No” – Unsupervised Methods.

Why This $4,000 Renault Is as Disruptive as the Tesla Model 3.

Fun watch - Bezos is, as always, super smart and timeless.

5 Keys to Unlocking Your Inner Beast Mode.

The secret origin story of the iPhone.

Apple’s New Campus: An Exclusive Look Inside the Mothership.

Amazon creating a place for hundreds of homeless on its shiny new Seattle campus.

Forget Self-Esteem—Try Self-Compassion Instead.

What It Takes To Get Funded By A Tier #1 VC Firm In The Valley.

How to not suck at design, a 5 minute guide for the non-designer.

A short note.

Building a startup? Build an audience, first.

Ben Horowitz: To Create Culture, Start A Revolution – Startup Grind.

To raise brave girls, encourage adventure.

Support SmoothControl.

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber.

Curiosity + mindfulness are a powerful combo.

Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy.

Warren Buffett’s Best Investment.

If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work.

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Marshall B.

Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger".

Are you a giver or a taker.

A short note.

Cannot believe I missed the “blending” approach to making graphene.

The End of Cloud Computing – Andreessen Horowitz.

Published for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity.

What Every Founder Should Constantly Be Thinking About – Product Hunt.

48% of Americans Left Behind by the Global Information Age.

Really important questions for our next 50 years.

Investor updates.

Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned.

The Five Types of Virality.

Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen's Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions.

A philosopher’s 350-year-old trick to get people to change their minds is now backed up by psychologists.

lessons on success from an Arab businesswoman.

The things we really need are getting more expensive.

How to Think Like Elon Musk.

E666: PT2-Ed Catmull, President Pixar-Disney & author “Creativity, Inc.” on Disney merge, the art of good filmmaking, building creative cult.

E665: PT1-Ed Catmull, Pixar-Disney President & “Creativity, Inc.” author on his early days as a pioneer in computer animation, learning from.

An Exclusive Look at How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple — Backchannel.

What Great Listeners Actually Do.

Stop Saying “Hardware is Hard” — Bolt Blog.

Recommendations for Startup Employee Option Plans – Andreessen Horowitz.

Staying one step ahead at Pixar: An interview with Ed Catmull.

Exclusivity for Everybody — Virgin Hotels - The Virgin Way <a href=".

PBTs + DRIs + OKRs = ZOMG.

The best structure I’ve come up with to run a product development & marketing team (so far).

Meet Facebook’s Most Successful Alum.

This is how you lead an on organization.

Managing millennials.

A better offer letter.

Facebook’s Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store.

John Carmack on Idea Generation.

The Multi-Billion Dollar Robotics Market Is About to Boom.

Draw your desired reality, and let your brain figure out how to get you there.

The NC Barbecue Society Historic Trail.

MentalHealthError: an exception occurred.

A short note.

The Internet of Things Will Be the World's Biggest Robot - Schneier on Security.

Inventor Labs Blog - "What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs".

This is a fantastic book, and I found a talk on it, which is an awesome refresher :).

Because products do not ship themselves, despite what the roadmap says.

Chris Sacca on Shark Tank, Building Your Business, and Startup Mistakes | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.

‘Nice’ Is a Four-Letter Word at Companies Practicing Radical Candor.

My So-Called Virtual Life: The Assistants Which Power Hunter Walk.

Book Discussion on [The Second Coming of Steve Jobs].

Oh, the irony.

And how I hire for them.

Just read the afterword of “Creativity, Inc.” and cried.

Amazon.com: Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader eBook: Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli: Kindle St.

The Men Who Built America - Episodes, Video & Schedule - HISTORY.com.

I laughed, I cried.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Some of history’s greatest minds have said meditation helped them become what they are.

The Story Spine: Pixar's 4th Rule of Storytelling.

Makes me want to ask others what their experience with their first major liar was.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

Villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot.

If you can stand the odd aesthetics and verbiage choices, the key points are actually quite insightful ;-).

Even a diamond needs to be cut before it can be truly great.

Meet the 27-year-old inventor backed by Bill Gates and Peter Thiel.

Best new music source of 2015 (for me): Spotify Radio: Singer-Songwriter genre.

Modern Masters - Pablo Picasso (BBC Documentary).

How to speak so that people want to listen.

Iced Coffee Kegs | Joyride Coffee.

Amazing talk with Marissa, Eric, and Jonathan from Google.

Open sourcing our pitch deck that helped us get our $865M valuation.

An Illustrated History of Mac OS X.

Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths: Video.

Brick by Brick: Inside Lego: Video.

I was forwarded this by a mentor, and found it really transformative for me.

MIT Energy Scavenger Harvests Power from Light, Vibrations, and Heat.

Scientists Mapped 8,000 Galaxies Surrounding Us And Found *This* Amazing Discovery.

i-H2GO Hydrogen Car.

We Analyzed Nearly 1 Million Headlines.

Intel's tiny 3G modem will put always-on data in your smartwatch.

Meet the man building an AI that mimics our neocortex – and could kill off neural networks.

33 Unbelievable Places To Visit Before You Die.

So You Want to Get Into Mobile Advertising.

The startup checklist, in the order your bank account begs for.

Milestone Ordering for Entrepreneurs.

A crash course in acronyms, math, and why clicks are not hugs.

How I learned to stop giving advice.

I had one of the most productive meetings of my life today, in just 30 minutes.

10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How.

The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store.

What I learned from getting my side project acquired - Ian Webster.

Android Fragmentation Visualization (July 2013).

UCLA scientists double efficiency of novel solar cell.

I’ve come to realize that I only really want to work with the following types of folks – those who are: - Geniuses at their craft (or at lea.

10 of the most counterintuitive pieces of advice from famous entrepreneurs - - The Buffer Blog.

Avoid talking about price with clients unless you’ve satisfied these two criteria: - Clients know the financial value of what they’re gettin.

1. The search for a product with a killer feature: A product that sells itself.

42 Rules to Lead by, from Jonathan Rosenberg.

Some very smart/experienced entrepreneur mentors and investors of mine have been pushing me to very succinctly define what we want to be at.

Startup Investing Trends of 2013.

As I get older, one of the things I’ve begun to think about is how to “pay it forward”.

Would Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have joined an incubator.

The only thing you really have in your life is time.

This is an amazing slide from Nathan Eagle at JANA, that he presented during MIT Mobile Summit in SF (2013).

Great little article: Greatest person ever.

A short note.

When marketing your (startup’s) product, it’s really important to understand whether the department that will be paying for the cost of your.

A preview of a blog post I’m writing: how we scale totally horizontally :).

Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are Silicon Valley luminaries, epic entrepreneurs and prominent financiers.

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want.

If the 1990’s & 2000’s were about Inter-Personal Computing, the 2010’s will be about Inter-Informational Computing.

What is the nicest thing you've ever done that no one knows about.

Most lives are lived by default by David @ Raptitude.

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling.

Because I miss the one that was taken down from Chill So I’ve posted The Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection on Pinterest now.

Correctly value your startup job offer.

Another cool Quora Thread: What separates the top 10% of startup CEOs from the rest.

Amazing Thread on HN: "Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP".

I came across Dr. Deli Wang’s UCSD research in Pulse magazine.

My family is affected by autism, and we’re of course not alone.

The Aha! Moments That Made Paul Graham's Y Combinator Possible.

Half question, half comment.

People who are &lsquo;right a lot of the time&rsquo; are people who often change their minds.

WOW: The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983.

My favorite out of the new apple ads.

With regards to ebay logo.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi - A treatise in perfectionism :) Highly, highly inspiring documentary.

Life is too short to work with anyone but the most brilliant people you can find.

My investor and role model Ben Horowitz wrote a fantastic entry the other day called “A Good Place to Work”.

Great leadership: 1st) Inspires 2nd) Challenges 3rd) Loves.

How cool! A caricature of me on the money2020 site.

Would this have happened under Steve Jobs.

Amazing rendition of the bourne theme.

Favorite song on the Dark Knight Soundtrack by far.

Awesome dissection of largest advertising spend in different verticals.

A great (anonymous) answer to Quora question: How was Marissa Mayer viewed within Google.

I’ve seen the future of Mac OS X and it it all menus.

Boy does this ever bring me back.

Never raised money before.

Want to make an impact in the merchant space.

There are only 2 basic things that ultimately matter in entrepreneurship: (1) providing a product that is 10X better than anything else; and.

Don’t add, multiply. In everything you do.

The Google mantra “don’t be evil” has really bothered me for a long time, but I couldn’t put my finger on why.

Paul DeJoe's amazing answer to What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up.

Be careful about inhaling your own smoke.

Stress/Worry only about the things directly in your control.

&hellip;that&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m such a strong feminist — overhead by Rohen Peterson (<a href=".

Link to full image. Why you should never work in a big group (by @searls).

I think Steve Jobs was one of the best students of humankind, ever.

Redmond, start your photocopiers — used to market Mac OS X Tiger in 2006.

We do not look at serial entrepreneurship as a positive trait&hellip; we look at authenticity and unconventional, proprietary insight as the.

Marketing Inspiration: Wikipedia list of Apple Slogans.

Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room — Jeff Bezos <img align="middle" src=" width="25"/>.

Complete list of Final Sales Prices for Christie's Auction: 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection.

Awesome.

Spotlight on Matthew Moore & CrowdMob By Laura Gramann (@misslg34) Matthew Moore served as sales engineer at Google from 2005 to 2007 workin.

Is our society increasing in conspicuous consumption, or decreasing.

ZOMG.

I’m doing a little branding test – what brands are these drinks above.

With all this attention on brogrammers on Quora, I’m wondering why there’s not more attention on brontrepreneurs.

I’ve been enjoying going through Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works in preparation to meet the author.

At CrowdMob, we’re thinking a lot about how people buy things.

Resume.

A group of my friends recently had a discussion about how to market our new slew of web products.

Albuquerque, NM April 2, 2009 Warning: this is a quick and dirty post.

I want to know: how do you find the world’s best people.

Emeryville, CA: September 16, 2008 In my experience, Ruby and Ruby on Rails has been one of the most difficult language/framework combinations to truly master.

Having worked at Google and now working in my own business, I’ve noticed that some days I’m just a rockstar at getting everything done, and.

Jenn, Dan, and I just got back from our Monterey Symposium optometry conference.

I’ve been thinking for a long time which is more powerful: having a cyclical network behind your product versus creating a platform for othe.

Ever since I got interested in starting a company in high school, I started to notice everyone and their brother talking about creating a mission statement.

After working at Google in the Partner Solutions Organization , I learned a lot about a side of technology companies I never really spent a.

Jenn and I got “company” iPhones last week, and I’ve rediscovered the podcast (Dan still loves his blackberry).

It’s official now, Jeremy is one smart, cool guy.

I have to hand it to them.

I had one of the most inspirational chats today that I’ve had in a long time.

It’s official now (and public knowledge) - I am leaving Google to work on a startup in Berkeley.