“Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particul...” — Fred Wilson Quote

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

Profiles aren't journalism.

There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice - to give that beautiful life up for adoption.

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.