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Sometimes tech turns a corner and it is so weirdly tangible. Perhaps it’s the company I keep, but lately I’ve noticed a malaise that attaches itself to some conversations. There is visceral uncertainty about the next great wave in consumer tech and it is making us all rather uncomfortable. We all...
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Sometimes the world/internet serves up an undeniably amazing set of events that one can’t help but stand in awe. The Net Neutrality debate has been a topic of much discussion amongst the tech cognoscenti lately, but it has been difficult to find a real-world example that illustrates why it’s so...
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Today we announced the Grand St. seed round. We are incredibly excited to be working with some of the smartest investors in hardware, commerce and digital communities around and are delighted to have the opportunity to grow the company and build more dope internets for our community. Much love to...
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photo credit: Dustin Kerstein I spent about a month last spring working on a hardware concept with a few friends. There was this energy around hardware that was becoming so palpable – pg called it “The Hardware Renaissance” in a recent essay. After talking to many friends going through the same...
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Last month Diane von Furstenberg included Google Glass in her New York Fashion Week showcase. The photos showed supermodels in fancy and fashionable clothing catwalking around in Glass, the now not-secret but not yet publicly available Google product. And although there was a lot of commentary...