Dave McClure is a venture capitalist the founding general partner at 500 Startups, an internet seed fund and startup accelerator program in Mountain View, CA. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired,...
Daily Archives: April 6, 2012
Here’s What A Facebook Response To A User Data Subpoena Looks Like
Last year, Facebook got a little more transparent explaining what kind of data it would provide to law enforcement officials when they made formal subpoenas for user profiles. Now, we can have a look at exactly what that Facebook account report looks like, perhaps for the first time. The document comes by way of...
VC Giants, Thinking Smaller: Why Kleiner Perkins’ Aileen Lee Is Getting Into Seed Funding
As a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, Aileen Lee has been a part of one of the most well-respected and established venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. KPCB, of course, is known for making big bets companies that often turn out to be the tech industry’s brightest stars: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Zynga, and...
Randi Zuckerberg defends ‘Silicon Valley’ reality show, says it’s about humanizing technology
Over the last week a lot of discussion has sparked up about the new Bravo reality TV show being filmed entitled Silicon Valley. Our own Hermione Way is involved with the project, which looks like it’s already become a polarizing topic. Some journalists, like Sarah Lacy at Pando Daily, have spoken out against the...
Randi Zuckerberg Defends Her Reality Show: Hey Silicon Valley, Stop Being Snobs
Randi Zuckerberg has ruffled some feathers this week with the announcement that she is co-producing “Silicon Valley,” a reality show set to air on Bravo that purports to be all about the San Francisco Bay Area tech scene. In an extensive post on her Facebook page today, Zuckerberg acknowledged the haters and pledged to...
Meet Siri’s Less Popular Sister: Trap.it
Hank Nothhaft This is Hank Nothhaft, a co-founder of Trap.it. While Siri’s sister company can’t talk back to you, it is just as smart. Like Siri, Trap.it came out of a $200 million program funded by DARPA. The five-year program was called CALO, which is short for Cognitive Assistant That Learns and Organizes. Siri was...
"If Facebook Were Built Today, It Would Be a Mobile App"
At a small lunch with reporters on the social media giant’s luxe new Silicon Valley campus, Pearce explained that the mobile issue is far from trivial. “Mobile is the epitome” of social, Pearce claimed. “If Facebook were built today, it would be a mobile app.” He had numbers to back it up: Facebook currently...
Randi Zuckerberg Explains Why She Agreed To Do A Silicon Valley Reality Show
Matt Rosoff Business Insider See Also Meet The 7 Stars Of The New Silicon Valley Reality Show Box Just Moved Into This Amazing New Office With A Two-Story Spiral Slide ‘Dance Moms’ Coach Causes Controversy After Making Young Girls Perform ‘Topless’ Randi Zuckerberg has drawn some heat for agreeing to produce a Silicon Valley...
5 Awesome free jQuery plugins for Web designers
jQuery, a very popular JavaScript library that encourages developers to “write less, and do more,” is one of the easiest ways to start tapping into the power of JavaScript without dying under a pile of complicated code. Put simply, it’s an approachable toolkit for anyone with HTML CSS experience, but is just as useful...
Jetpac Digs Into Your Friends’ Facebook Photos To Make A Travel Magazine Just For You
Jetpac See Also Former Apple Engineer Is AMAZED At How Kaggle Helped Him Solve An Ugly Computing Problem Hey Look: A VC Who DOESN’T Think User Growth Equals Success Forget the CEOs: Get To Know These 10 Super Connected Employees Flipping through this new iPad magazine will want to make you pack your bags....