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Author: Perry Ismangil
Do you want this tapeworm in your brain?
Does technology in schools improve education? (via The World Economic Forum)
The availability of computers by themselves doesn’t alter the need for teachers to teach students basic skills and content, nor does it change the need for students to study, practice and learn those skills and content. In fact, having computers in schools serves as a distraction rather than an aid.
This is Probably a Good Time to Say That I Don’t Believe Robots Will Eat All the Jobs …
Investors Updating Their Investors: Inside Homebrew’s First Annual LP Meeting
Less “paid marketing when you should be building word of mouth and virality.”
Less “salaries when you should be building a culture and vision that pulls the best talent towards you with generous equity compensation instead of cash.”
Our seed fund Homebrew celebrated its first birthday yesterday, meaning we’re still in diapers but walking tall. I’ve written before about our fundraising process and how it very much resembles that of a startup. Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. We brief our major investors quarterly and decided to model our LP meeting after what “big funds” do, albeit with a few Homebrew flourishes 🙂 Logistically this meant an afternoon session with presentations/Q&A then a dinner with founders/advisors. Here’s what we covered – it’s a bit inside baseball but just as with the funding post linked above, we think exposing the mechanics of venture can help entrepreneurs and future investors (plus, we learn a lot from any resulting discussions). As a reminder, our $35m Fund I has the overwhelming majority of capital from four…
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Importance of a tagline
Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
#biz
‘Golput’/non-voters in Indonesia: the numbers
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So if I want to post about Bitcoins I can use their image above.
What’s neat is WordPress.com already supports it from day 1.
Using Evernote more and more
These new features of Evernote on Android (http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2014/03/05/handwriting-arrives-evernote-android makes it even more useful).
I find myself using it even more, first to replace bookmark collection. Then for ‘read later’. And of course still for taking random notes.
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