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What industry badly needs a clever redesign?

Sep 21st, 2012

The article was inspired by this thread on Quora and here is one of the clever answers given to kick it off. Refrigerators Fridges have had the same design since the 1940s. Cram all your perishable foods into a cold box and hope you remember to eat it before it gets furry. Energy Waste: 4th largest consumer [...]

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Resisting smartphones

Sep 1st, 2012

I have many friends who grew really addicted to their "smart" devices. When we'd go out for a drink, the common ritual occurs - check in with FourSquare, then tweet if it's a particularly nice place, check their email, and maybe take a photo and post it on Facebook - and that's even before the [...]

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Spam producing hydra needs to be eliminated and a first startup to do so will be a humanity saver

Jul 15th, 2012

When I open my inbox, I find between 100-200 messages that have been marked as spam by Gmail, and then about 50 more that I mark as spam. Every single day. There are all these different types of spam - drugs, dating, services that I don't need, lists that I never subscribed to, comment spam, random messages... [...]

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That’s it Firefox, you are gone

Jul 13th, 2012

I've been a diligent user of Firefox since it came out. Even though other browser followed, I kind of stick with it mainly for the excellent Firebug, Xmarks and SEO Doctor extensions. However, with their recent rapid release cycle things were getting a bit out of hand. I am constantly experiencing crashes (couple of times [...]

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What’s all the this fuss with startups and investments about?

Jun 1st, 2012

The most common question that I am asked about our startup is are we actively seeking investment and my answer so far has been no. It seems that startups are somehow always related to investments and it is my strong belief that this is unrightfully so. There is nothing wrong with bootstrapped startups or startups [...]

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The Valley is focusing too much on 140 characters and not enough on flying cars

Apr 23rd, 2012

Peter Thiel says that the "the Valley is focusing too much on 140 characters and not enough on flying cars" and this message resonated really well with me. There is so much money floating around and it's being invested to startups that really solve no problem. Even worse, some of them basically invent the problem [...]