The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of Read More
Make your users do the work
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How Sports Infects Your Brain
How Sports Infect Your Brain by Nir Eyal in Users Note: I co-authored this post with Andrew Martin and David Ngo. It originally Read More
It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup.Richard Nixon and Watergate Getting asked by reporter about where Read More
If there’s only one passionate party in a relationship it’s unrequited love. Here’s how I learned it the Read More
Brochures are mainly used to introduce your business to your potential market. Other than letting the world know Read More
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Making a dent in the universe
Our goal teaching for the National Science Foundation was to make a dent in the universe. Could we actually teach Read More
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VC to founders: Help us help you
You’d think that as often as “VC is dead” is bandied about the Valley, we’d have seen a Read More
In 1995, Jeff Dachis founded Razorfish, a pioneer in online advertising, which Dachis eventually led through a public Read More
Paul Thelen is a first-time entrepreneur, having founded Big Fish Games almost a decade ago. Fast forward and Read More
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Zynga, Path CEOs spill on mobile missteps
Even when every company is rushing to create and improve their mobile presence, two well-known CEOs made it Read More
(Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NY. In this opinion piece, he writes Read More
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The art of manipulation
Let’s admit it, we in the consumer Web industry are in the manipulation business. We build products meant Read More
Right now, someone is tinkering with a billion dollar secret — they just don’t know it yet. “What Read More
Plummeting investor confidence has already made this year a disaster for many companies attempting to raise cash from Read More