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Re: Video Of The Week: The Game Changers

LIAD — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:25:41 -0000

Lots of detractors saying it was all pseudoscience.

Either way. My takeaway from watching it is to try and grow sideburns like that crazy power lifter.

Re: AIVC

LIAD — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:15:21 -0000

just noticed the post title! Badass.

Re: AIVC

LIAD — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:18:52 -0000

I dunno Fred, some of those Sunday morning blog posts over the years have been a little dicey.

Re: Digital Money

LIAD — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:38:48 -0000

he educates and informs. doesn't hard sell, doesn't even seek to persuade.

hard not to want to own more of the pie after listening to him.
tweet nearly 6 years old!

https://twitter.com/L1AD/st...

Re: History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme

LIAD — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:18:48 -0000

From your vantage point. What’s the hold up? Still infrastructure, applications, regulation, UX, viable use cases?

Re: Airpods vs Airpods Pro

LIAD — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:37:37 -0000

first few days had decided the same thing. didn't find them comfortable to wear, ears felt plugged having them in, lack of ambient sound was discerning.

decided to persevere. key for me was changing the tips to large from the medium that came as default - super comfortable now - but always aware you have them in, whereas previous version you didn't they just were. being able to turn on noise cancellation on underground - pure magic. sticking with pros.

- have you tried turning off noise cancellation or activating transparency mode? or is that only available via ios hardware?

Re: How To Beat A Patent Troll

LIAD — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:16:02 -0000

best form of defence is attack. love it.

Re: Ezra

LIAD — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:16:44 -0000

Incidental findings can open up a whole lotta hurt needlessly. I don't think this is so clear cut.

Re: Smart Home Data Aggregator?

LIAD — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:37:54 -0000

there is life outside the apple ecosystem

Re: Smart Home Data Aggregator?

LIAD — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:56:48 -0000

I feel the same about a smart health data aggregator.

Curious what you are analysing the data for. Intellectual curiosity/budgeting/tax?

Re: Founder Control

LIAD — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:04:46 -0000

It’s just leverage right.
Everyone fights for their own self interest.
People play the cards they hold.
Not right or wrong. Just is.

Re: The Long Engagement

LIAD — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 08:27:47 -0000

I remember Mark Suster writing a great piece on this. 'Invest in Lines, not Dots' - https://bothsidesofthetable.... 2010! how time flies.

Whilst beneficial to the investor - its also totally in the founders interests too. Reference-checks are a quasi-shortcut, but nothing can beat extended exposure to someone to establish credibility, characteristics and trust.

Re: Zooming

LIAD — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:31:43 -0000

don't particularly enjoy air travel - and use zoom a bunch too.

however - can come to the diametrically opposed conclusion to yours about it improving our lives, effectiveness and business whilst also agreeing with your conclusion.

Schrodingers Zoom.

Re: Tumblr

LIAD — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:44:03 -0000

1. Loving the positive frame.
2. Six Years! Already. Fuck me time flies.

Re: Ignoring vs Not Replying

LIAD — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:41:08 -0000

You've just given the textbook response to a question going back millennia.

Q: why isn't God answering my prayers?
A: just because you didn't get a response, doesn't mean he didn't hear them or put things in motion.

#PopeFred.

Re: Reserves

LIAD — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:26:50 -0000

im confident the overriding majority of companies USV back go on to raise (multiple) additional rounds of funding

Re: Reserves

LIAD — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:43:59 -0000

"probability of us having the opportunity to make those investments" -

curious ways in which you wouldn't have the opportunity - is that made up exclusively on the founder welching on the pro-rata rights?

Re: Business Model Innovation

LIAD — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 08:08:02 -0000

remember that 1//9/90 UGC 'rule' of creators/'remixers'/lurkers.

For 99% of a potential audience crypto token renumeration is all but completely irrelevant as the sum total of their potential earnings will be diddly squat.

So the potential market is the 1%.

Question then is can the 1% be sufficiently motivated to jump ship and move their content elsewhere on the back of token renumeration - AND will the 99% follow suit.

Not sure.

Patreon offered this functionality and seem to have hoovered up some A-list creators. I'm not sure YT is worried about them.

Re: Graduation Season

LIAD — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:03:30 -0000

heartwarming post.

i like how clicking on the image leads to google photos - which has its own comment thread. G can bootstrap its own soc-net off embeds, much like YT did back in the day.

Re: Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

LIAD — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 05:16:34 -0000

Too funny. What a coincidence.

Was listening to him giving a podcast interview on the book as the avc post notification came through.

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Re: Why USV is Joining the Libra Association

LIAD — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:53:06 -0000

have been waiting a week for this post to drop.

consider me sufficiently appeased on USV and others participation.

2-way data streaming between FB/Libra is already a given (see below).

How will the council keep FB in check when FB properties are directly responsible for their Libra ROI.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I hope this hasn't been a smart way for Mark to buy-off his detractors.

"Calibra will not share account information or financial data with Facebook, Inc. or any third party *without customer consent*"

"the app *will allow* people to import Facebook contacts to their Calibra wallets, to make sending funds easy. However, this feature will be opt-in, rather than automatic"

"The company does intend to use *aggregated Facebook data* to inform upgrades for its product, including regional usage statistics for monitoring adoption rates"

Re: Turning Streetlights Into EV Charging Stations

LIAD — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:02:54 -0000

Does the charging company set the rate or the parking garage. I’d have thought the charging co let’s the garage add as much margin as they want. Their business is in structural decline I’d have thought so can see why they’re being opportunistic.

London we’ve a bunch of free parking/charging spots exclusive to EVs. Also malls have them located right next to disabled spaces at entrance to shops. So doing all they can to entice people to EVs.

Re: Universal Biometric Identity

LIAD — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 13:29:32 -0000

I see none of them ask for your social media account details. Not yet anyway.

Re: Custody, Trading, Staking

LIAD — Mon, 20 May 2019 08:01:01 -0000

i remember years ago (5+) discussing here how all crypto rivers flow from the fiat on-ramp - and whoever nails that, can likely go on to own the stack.

the company you trust with your fiat - has the ceteris-paribus advantage on a user level to be the company you trust to custody your crypto.

in essence - at least on a retail basis - custody is coinbase's unless they screw it up, which i doubt they will.

- would be interesting to dig out those 2013 vintage posts and comment threads and see how smart/dumb the conversations were if we knew then what we know now.

Re: Public Speaking

LIAD — Thu, 16 May 2019 11:20:31 -0000

hunted turned hunter - love it.