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Fred Destin
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Venture Capital 2.1 = Venture Capital 1.0 Redux, with a Twitter Account
VC in crisis for a decade: a reality that has been widely commented on and embraced, including recently and eloquently by James Surowiecki. I read elements of the equation all over the place and will try to bring it all together into a framework that I can relate to. I want to argue, without a...
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In search of Stillness, or why personal high availability is a (generally) a bug
These days, 2.3 seconds seems to be the average time between sending out an email and getting a response. We live in a world of immediate interaction and a general information immersion and real-time availability. Generationally I am pre digital native but I embraced the new communication and media consumptions paradigms early on, and though...
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Moving to Boston !
Over the summer I will be moving over to Boston to join my partners there. I found a house in Brookline which I am hoping will be a great place to raise all three of my kiddo's and for my wife to find her next gig. The garden is big enough to do nice dinosaur...
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Communist China, the misbehaving superpower
On the back of the Google - China standoff, I am taking the liberty of recycling content from the oft brilliant Mark Anderson at SNS. This is a short digest of the excellent article that you can find at: www.abrightfire.com. Whilst I think we have to watch the Western tendency to take advantage of the...
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Investment and innovation themes from the Defrag conference
I am lucky enough to work with a guy who, on top of (or in spite of) his aristocratic good looks, is also a very smart cookie and former entrepreneur called Max Niederhofer (aka Graf Max). As he likes to spend our hard earned management fees on long distance flights, it was natural for him...
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