@unreasonable Highly depends on situation. Often you will have support from legacy investors - and early investments are often in team.
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Many journalists think newsrooms are great working environments; developers hate them. I'm curious where the future of news will be built.
And America's biggest terrorist threat officially comes from within. Time to change the narrative. http://www.globalpost.com/article/6592741/2015/06/24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-unite...
#castparty was a lot of fun. Podcasting has come a long way - but we're still only at the foothills of the medium. So much more to come.
Hanging out before the #castparty podcast festival screening in SF, arguing with @erinjo about the existential nature of cake. #amworking
Angelification: n. The tendency for people with British accents who live in America to sound more like Angela Lansbury over time.
Livid that Charlie was adding links into my calendar invitations. This kind of growth hacking is awful. Deleted.
@econproph I agree. So here's the big thing that I think needs to happen: professors _must_ be empowered to buy their own tools.
@econproph Always going to be true - so the key is to make openness a side effect, and concentrate on building an awesome experience.
@econproph Trick with that, from experience, is that trying to create a cross-tool standard up front is a black hole. Need 2 or 3 tools 1st.
I don't think institutions can or should, generally, build their own software. But educators must be a tighter part of the conversation.
Blackboard's software is terrible. Horrible architecture, terrible service, closed in every way possible. EdTech needs more open solutions.
The question for institutions: if they need software like Blackboard, who will build it, and why?
Institutions are - rightly - turning to open source solutions to escape from lock-in at high licensing cost. It's eating Blackboard's lunch.
Relatively high risk and long decision times drive Blackboard's licensing costs up. Most of their revenue is from corporate institutions.
Blackboard, the universally-loathed LMS, wants to sell for $3bn, four years after selling to a PE firm for $1.64bn.
@bitoclass Yuck. I'm sorry! I think you're a victim of relentless cloudification here. Is xbmc any good?
The ugly truth about consumer Internet startups. (The "uncool" markets can be the way to go.) http://theheretic.org/2015/07/28/the-ugly-truth-about-consumer-internet.html via @pfinette
@jf Cats would start their own podcast, but they don't want to deal with all the complaints about their tiny mewing voices.
Looking forward to attending the SF broadcast of the Cast Party podcast festival tonight: http://castparty.org/
@_tessr I've been working with tar for well over a decade and this might be the first mnemonic that actually works for me!
I'm so sick of hearing about vocal fry. Stop criticizing women's voices: the bigger story is we're seeing the complete disruption of radio.
Calling it Windows 10 to avoid "Windows 9*" filters. Making Edge's logo a blue "E". Lots of pragmatic decisions happening at Microsoft.
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