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This was how the BMW i3 worked. It was a rather novel design that included an optional small electric scooter motor in the rear that had a 2.5 gallon gas tank. When the battery was…

Not a board game… but highly recommend Magic Puzzle Company puzzles as gifts for family and friends who aren’t quite ready for intense games. A bonus is that Susan Kare (of Apple/N…

Congratulations, Garry! YC couldn't have picked a better leader.

Steve Jobs famously said that he saw the computer as a "bicycle of the mind." He saw technology as a tool to amplify humanity's abilities. Mark Zuckerberg has chosen to build a "ca…

Congratulations, Zach! It's been very cool watching Codecademy go from electrifying prototype to media darling to quiet giant.

I know it's hard to imagine, but there are many sides to these stories. Things really aren't so black and white. You really have no idea just how hard these guys worked or the stru…

My e-mail is in my profile and I'd be happy to help you get in touch with them if you meet their parameters. Most of them are looking to do just a few deals a year.

There are actually a number of VCs showing up right now to address this pain point. They're tending to fund profitable B2B companies with $5-40m in annual revenue and explicitly st…

At OwnLocal, we like people who understand the news business and have some programming skills. I'd encourage you to look at our jobs page: http://ownlocal.com/jobs

When I was in high school (quite a long time ago now), I'd try to buy 2-4 albums a month. That was an average cost of $25-$50 to listen to 20-50 new songs... some of which I enjoye…

Newspapers were largely ad driven since their "modern day" inception in the early 1700's. I'm going to need to write a blog post about this since I'm seeing so much confusion about…

There absolutely is a reason why it's expensive. In fact, I could easily make a case that as a society we'd be better off if more money was invested in creating quality content. Be…

Ok, education time. You may not like ads but they heavily subsidize great content. In fact, the price of a New York Times subscription would be close to $1,500 per year if it weren…

Today, Groupon's market cap is $6.88 billion. So, maybe it would have been smart to sell, but as of today, they're ahead. I have a feeling that company wasn't quite the disaster yo…

YC already has the ability to accept more startups from the thousands of applications it gets. Most high-quality startups are applying to YC even if they apply to other incubator/a…

There is a ton of legitimate content being regularly sent through e-mail. Most of it isn't targeted it at you and much of it is local in nature. If it's difficult for Google to asc…

The biggest problem with these tabs is that there is a very clear tab missing: Content/Editorial/News/ These are newsletters I've subscribed to that aren't promotional. Some are ed…

This analysis is tragically incorrect. The Times legal department in no way represents the Times newsroom or the developers who made Snow Fall. Reporters and developers love tools …

I know this phenomenon may sound like a bug, but it's probably a feature. It means that many smart kids go to schools close to home and are able to enrich their own communities by …

One bit missing from this story is that Foursquare and Gowalla didn't actually launch on the same day at SxSW. Foursquare had previously launched at the New York Tech Meetup a week…

There's certainly innovation taking place in enterprise sales, but don't discard the "old school" just because it isn't new. Many of the largest companies you can think of are "old…

Looks like Steve Heymann has a history of this: "The case was picked up by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann in Boston, the cybercrime prosecutor who won a record 20-year priso…

New York has a solution for this. It's called a livery car (they're usually Lincoln Town Cars). This is especially prudent when you have a flight to catch. You call and they send s…

I'm one of those people that enjoys a certain level of noise... usually music without lyrics. I can work without it but I find that I can more quickly get into "the zone" when I ha…