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Steve Jobs was sure a hard nosed negotiator.

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:21:01 +0530

It was a Friday morning, January 22, 2010. Apple was preparing to release its newest product, a...

Zimmerman playing Dylan. Lovely. Tight Connection To My Heart...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:27:17 +0530

Zimmerman playing Dylan. Lovely.

Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love) by Bob Dylan

Robert Zimmerman is the artist of the weekend on fredwilson.fm

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Who Was Mather? Meet the Lesser-Known Men Behind Famous Agency Names | Agency News - Advertising Age

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:17:21 +0530

Who Was Mather? Meet the Lesser-Known Men Behind Famous Agency Names | Agency News - Advertising...

This is so much the ACTUAL EVOLUTION of human...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:18:03 +0530

This is so much the ACTUAL EVOLUTION of human “civilization”. Can we even call it that..??

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Milo Manara - Storia dell’Umanità

What is the smartest thing a child has ever said?

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:16:40 +0530

What is the smartest thing a child has ever said?: Answer (1 of 322): I asked a 5 year old kid to...

This is one of the best things I've read in recent times

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:35:22 +0530

Q: I have $5. What is the best way to invest and grow my money? Vivek Virasamy’s response on...

Been a while since I discovered a band/song that I really...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:51:46 +0530

Been a while since I discovered a band/song that I really like.

Cayucos - Cayucas

They are just 3 songs old. But quite bright, as this song feels.

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The key to creating a business is to possess the ability to execute. It may seem easy, but take the...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:32:59 +0530

The key to creating a business is to possess the ability to execute. It may seem easy, but take the...

Information Arbitrage: Reflections on IA Ventures, 3.5 years in

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:58:50 +0530

Information Arbitrage: Reflections on IA Ventures, 3.5 years in: “Mindfulness is one thing....

“The closer you think you are, the less you will actually...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:35:58 +0530

“The closer you think you are, the less you will actually see.”

And you will see this starting May 31st.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:52:49 +0530

https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/: Now you can smell on internet. Google.

So now we know where trigonometry and all the nonsense we...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:06:15 +0530

So now we know where trigonometry and all the nonsense we learned, is applied.

Nikki Graziano

Found Functions

“Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics… and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music… Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.” - Paul Lockhart

I know I’ve posted this before, but it’s always worth revisiting. So great.

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Here's your chance to listen to Albert Einstein's voice.

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:33:34 +0530

Here's your chance to listen to Albert Einstein's voice.

Stowe Boyd: Marissa Mayer's Obsessions

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:16:01 +0530

Stowe Boyd: Marissa Mayer's Obsessions: Marissa Mayer’s quest to upgrade Yahoo ‘culture’ continues....

brycedotvc: While travelling between meetings on my loaner...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:57:48 +0530

brycedotvc:

While travelling between meetings on my loaner cruiser bike last week in LA, I passed by this bright, bold building along Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica several times. The pink hue of the stucco and inviting covered patio reminded me that a small piece of OATV history took place under that green awning.

Back in 2005, Mark, Tim and I were in the midst of raising our first fund. We’d started taking meetings in August and had good momentum with a number of verbal commitments individual investors in the $500k to $1M range. What we didn’t have was a lead investor who could act as a forcing function to get all the existing cats herded into a date for a final close. It was early November and we were getting antsy to get something locked down by the end of the year.

Here’s where the pink building comes in.

We happened to be down in LA for a series of meetings with large institutional investors and one of their offices was next door to this restaurant, The Ivy at the Shore.

Midway through our lunch Mark’s phone rings with a Seattle number. We’d be there a few weeks prior meeting with some people who had the capability to write a very sizable check- just the kind of check we needed at this point.

WIthout missing a beat, Mark picks up the call not even bothering to leave the table (he knew I wanted to hear every word). After exchanging hellos and niceties, the person on the other end of the line informed us they were excited to invest in us. In our wildest dreams leading up to this call, we envisioned this person investing $5M. On the call, they asked if it would be ok if they invested $10M.

As Mark repeated their ask aloud, we both nodded slowly at the phone in his hand while he relayed our response, “I think we can accomodate that”.

From there the others followed quickly. In fact, the large institutional investor we were waiting to meet when we got the call ended up investing too.

My friend Bijan wrote a post last week about people who’ve taken chances on him:

Many folks get to experience some of their goals because someone, somewhere along the way, gave them a shot. They took a real chance based on something they felt or saw (vs historical evidence per se).

As memories of that call came flooding back to me, I couldn’t help but feel the same.

With no evidence to believe, this person on the other end of the line took a chance on us.

And in doing so, changed my life forever. Right under that little green awning.

Ancient India continues to surprise me. Kailashnath Temple, also...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:54:36 +0530

Ancient India continues to surprise me.

Kailashnath Temple, also Kailash Temple or Kailasanath Temple is a famous temple dug…in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora, Maharashtra, India. It is a megalith carved out of one single rock. It was built in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I.

The Kailash Temple is notable for its vertical excavation—carvers started at the top of the original rock, and excavated downward.

It is estimated that about 400,000 tons of rocks was scooped out over hundreds of years to construct this monolithic structure.

INDIAN HISTORY LITERALLY NEVER MANAGES TO BE BORING OR EVEN TBQH SHORT OF BREATH-TAKING

Ancient man created better structures than anything we could possibly churn out now.

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"Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have..."

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:26:17 +0530

“Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have...

This is an amazing video. What if the sun never set? Astronauts...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:13:40 +0530

This is an amazing video.

What if the sun never set?

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station occasionally experience that very phenomenon, and it’s captured in the video above in all its beautiful oddness. Here’s how it works:

The ISS doesn’t travel around the Earth’s middle. Rather, it follows a near-polar orbit. As it flies along its tilted north-south path, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, this orbit lets it see much more of the Earth beneath it. Occasionally, it happens to travel along the line between night and day, and that’s where this cool scene unfolds.

Along Earth’s “terminator” (the line between light and dark), if you looked out the window of the ISS you’d see the Sun dip in the sky, but climb again without setting. In the video, the orbit begins east of London, then extends southward along the terminator until crossing near the South Pole. The ISS then orbits back up toward the north, hovering above the terminator in permanent daylight until it reaches a point just east of where it began.

The Earth’s terminator line:

(Video by NASACrewEarthObs)

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Lovely Lovely Lovely song. Well, you build it up, you wreck it...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:44:56 +0530

Lovely Lovely Lovely song.

Well, you build it up, you wreck it down
You burn your mansion to the ground
When there’s nothing left to keep you here, when
You’re falling behind in this
Big blue world

Oh you go to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I’m standing right here
You got to hold on..

Tom Waits- Hold On

This is interesting what a radius can do to a circle....

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:16:15 +0530

This is interesting what a radius can do to a circle. Isn’t geometry fascinating..??