Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
But it was Geoff's introduction to Vinod Khosla, who ultimately funded the company along with Geoff, that really made the difference. Vinod interrupted the demo and said, "Can your technology scale? Can it search a big database?" And we said, "That's an interesting question. Nobody's asked us before." We liked the fact that he d
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Sameer Singh • The Platform Matrix: All Platforms Are Not Created Equal
Some venture capital funds are pursuing clean-tech approaches, like Khosla Ventures, TBL Capital and the Patient Capital Collaborative.
R. Paul Herman • The HIP Investor
VCs and especially the LP community.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Venture capital actually does a pretty great job here (the beauty of the model is a subject for a future piece, ... See more
Packy McCormick • The Experimentation Layer
I look back forty years and I can’t find one major innovation that came from a large company. Not one. General Motors and Volkswagen couldn’t design an electric car. Boeing and Airbus couldn’t do space as SpaceX could. None of the media companies did media as Twitter and Facebook did. None of the pharma companies did biotechnology as Genentech did.
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