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Yeah, and just like Eric Schmidt said, Twitter is just a poor man's email. http://www.dvice.com/archives/2009/03/google-sounds-s.php Boy, was he right. Not out of touch in the leas…

Startup data trends (which gets its data via AngelList's API) shows 18799 startups in total when you search on location "Earth" http://startupdatatrends.com/?tags=1643 It's reasona…

BTW, I do hope you continue to work on your blog and, more importantly, on your philosophy of getting stuff done.

The irony is that Sahil's posts are increasingly about something other than leverage. They are becoming more about stating completely obvious startup/entrepreneur bait. "We love le…

Israel's rise as a tech hub has quite a few similarities to Silicon Valley's early history. Having good schools and a frontier spirit seem like key ingredients. Perhaps most import…

Some read the Steve Jobs biography and view it as (A) a validation of their personal theory of themselves as immortal gods. Others view it as (B) a check on their potentially destr…

My point on the company being PM-driven was not that PM-driven on its own is necessarily bad. The point was that the organization responsible for ideas and their execution (in Netf…

What's going on at Netflix? If you ask employees, they'll tell you that the culture - often praised for its high performance standards - is a culture of fear. It's a product manage…

Do startups actually need product managers? A few months back, a job posting for a designer at inDinero included a sidebar that asked this question. Jessica suggested that the answ…

Why bother hacking AngelList? Isn't just as easy to email my pitch deck to people I know. Probably more effective too, since a reference from people I know is better than jumping i…