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The stealthy industrial revolution already underway in open source hardware 6 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am
It's now common knowledge that open source software (OSS) has permanently altered the economics of the information business. Free access to powerful software development frameworks and libraries -- c...
Empires of the Mind: America's failure is City Hall's opportunity 2 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
This post originally appeared on PandoDaily -- reposting here for regular Crashdev readers. The tech community is congenitally allergic to bureaucrats, governments, and institutions of all kinds. Res...
Ambition 30 Jul 2013 | 10:16 am
"Power law returns" "'Rich-get-richer' competitive dynamics" Startup culture is replete with catchphrases -- like the two above -- that hint at the intense competitive and economic pressures at work...
More Bad Angel Behavior 23 Jul 2013 | 07:27 am
I've written about this before (see "Beware of 'Angels' with Sticky Fingers") but I just had a fresh run-in with this class of investor and wanted to share the (anonymized) story in case others find t...
Welcoming Meldium to the Founders' Co-op family 18 Jul 2013 | 12:34 am
GigaOm broke the story this morning so I'm just piling on, but I wanted to share a little backstory on our latest Founders' Co-op investment -- Meldium --because it's a great example of how we think a...
Crunchbase 13 Jul 2013 | 05:13 am
I mentioned this in passing a few weeks ago but given their progress / momentum since then I thought it was worth hitting head-on. Good decisions are powered by good data and few decision markets hav...
If a tree falls in the forest... 6 Jun 2013 | 10:02 am
Like it or not, we live in the data age. Each of us, in nearly every sphere of our lives, generates data exhausts that are increasingly used to weigh, measure and categorize us. This is not only tru...
If a tree falls in the forest... 6 Jun 2013 | 10:02 am
Like it or not, we live in the data age. Each of us, in nearly every sphere of our lives, generates data exhausts that are increasingly used to weigh, measure and categorize us. This is not only tru...
Welcoming HasOffers to the Founders' Co-op Family 21 May 2013 | 09:55 pm
One of Seattle's quiet startup success stories just got a little louder: as TechCrunch and GeekWire reported last night, we joined Accel's Rich Wong and Real Networks founder/CEO Rob Glaser in a $9.4M...
Welcoming HasOffers to the Founders' Co-op Family 21 May 2013 | 09:55 pm
One of Seattle's quiet startup success stories just got a little louder: as TechCrunch and GeekWire reported last night, we joined Accel's Rich Wong and Real Networks founder/CEO Rob Glaser in a $9.4M...
