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Andy Weissman – Aug 29, 2013
Content distribution has traditionally been defined by scarcity: in the number of channels available to watch TV; the number of theaters to watch films; the number of radio stations to listen to music; the number of bookstores to buy books; [...] Read more
Fearless
Andy Weissman – Aug 12, 2013
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys Last winter someone gave me a Nexus Android device they got at a Google event. It didn't have phone service so [...] Read more
So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
Andy Weissman – Jun 20, 2013
And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're goin' through The acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo! is now complete, which has set off [...] Read more
Interestingness
Andy Weissman – May 29, 2013
"You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got a standing ovation. [...] Read more
CircleUp
Andy Weissman – May 6, 2013
As venture capitalists, we understand how valuable an injection of capital into an early-stage, fast-growing business can be. But our industry has a particular set of economics, one that has skewed the availability of equity investment towards startups in the [...] Read more
Science Exchange
Andy Weissman – Apr 29, 2013
Right now, there are thousands of scientists whose research is being held up because they lack access to the experimental expertise needed to test a hypothesis or verify a result. But while we have seen how online marketplaces can dramatically [...] Read more
Memories
Andy Weissman – Apr 29, 2013
Well, I guess that it's typical To cling to memories you'll never get back again And to sort through old photographs of a summer long ago - Conor Oberst Back around 1991 or so, me, my brother, and a few [...] Read more
Manufacturing Scarcity
Andy Weissman – Apr 10, 2013
You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you might find You get what you need The musician Prince recently found short videos clips from the Twitter-owned video sharing service Vine to be offending because [...] Read more
Kitchensurfing
Andy Weissman – Apr 3, 2013
What's in your kitchen? Probably a stove, sink, running water, oven, refrigerator, cutlery and other utensils, sometimes a microwave oven. Precisely the same things as every commercial restaurant kitchen. Every kitchen is indeed an ad hoc restaurant waiting to happen. [...] Read more