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9am, Facebook Headquarters: Cafe 18. My laptop is open next to a plate of kiwi and mango. It's Friday and my last day of "bootcamp" at Facebook. Every person in the engineering organization &8211; VP to fresh-outta-college &8211; has t...
Continue readingHow do people come to believe a thing? They can believe a thing because of reason, or take something on faith....
Continue readingUnsolicited calls from a tech recruiter are one of the banes of existence of a technologist with a LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile that has been anything close to meaningfully filled out. Or a startup founder. Both sides get hammered with calls. And e...
Continue readingWritten as a Thanksgiving present for Kate Compton...
Continue readingOne month ago1, we started working on our newest idea, connecting extended families through sharing. We’re now proud to announce the name for our endeavor: Oha.na2....
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Continue readingMuch1 has2 been3 said4 about the classic "Hacker + Hustler" dynamic, but I think a lot of the discussion misses the subtly of what both bring to the table and some of the other critical archetypes that need to be filled in a successful star...
Continue readingHere's a bold bet for the century: manufacturing will return to the U.S....
Continue readingIn this talk for StartupMonthly1&8216;s Demo Day I outline the analogies between hacking together software not the malicious sort! and hacking/founding companies....
Continue readingIn this video, I walk folks at Blackbox1 through my Guide to Stock & Options2 and the ins and outs of founder stock, options, term sheets, and more....
Continue readingA funny thing happens to technical founders: as the company you built takes off and a proper Engineering Team develops, you find yourself doing less and less code. You need to spend your time managing the business, recruiting new talent, setting dire...
Continue readingThis recorded talk comes courtesy The Founder Institute1, where I am a mentor....
Continue readingA talk I gave at TEDxValenciaSt1 in 2011 on the importance of imagining the ideal freed from the constraints of knowing how you're going to build something!...
Continue readingMy interview with Karina Pikhart and Peter Cantisani about Karina's startup 6dot, which is making a new portable Braille labelling system....
Continue readingDr. Jade Wang of NASA Ames talks about The Game, her long, fascinating voyage to America from China as a child and her time here in Silicon Valley....
Continue readingDavid interviews Dr. William Marshall of the NASA Ames Research Center about his current projects to build low cost satellites, the neccessary creation of a lunar base, and his path in coming to Silicon Valley....
Continue readingDavid Weekly interviews James Halliday and Peteris Krumins, the CEO and CTO respectively of the newly-established Browserling, a browser testing firm in which David made his first angel investment. The interview was done a mere hour after closing the...
Continue readingDavid interviews environmental policy wonk Tim Telleen-Lawton about his work for Environment California....
Continue readingBjoern Lasse Herrmann and Aleksandra Markova describe the Atherton, CA based incubator-house they live in called Blackbox.vc, how it sprung out of a global network of youth entrepreneurs called Sandbox, and how a young, rural German came to meet a yo...
Continue readingMy interview with Jeff Lindsay, my co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse and the Hacker Dojo....
Continue readingMy interview with Jeff Lindsay1, with whom I co-founded SuperHappyDevHouse2 and the Hacker Dojo3....
Continue readingRhett Butler of Mongabay1 talks about his upcoming State Department sponsored trip to Indonesia, where he'll address thousands on the subject of biodiversity and property rights. We cover US consumers' relationship to Green Marketing, corpo...
Continue readingInterview with Paolo Privitera of DooChoo, talking about innovation and startups in Venice and creating ties and cultural exchange with Silicon Valley....
Continue readingMy now former roommate Ulrich describes his epic road trip from California down to the southern tip of Chile in his trusty Jeep, with a kayak mounted to his roof. The trip took over four years and included a three month pit-stop in Guatamala "an...
Continue readingAlan explains how he got introduced to computers, why he went to Stanford and majored in philosophy, and how he ended up as a software engineer working for a Silicon Valley company....
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