Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is the founder of two acquired startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him on Twitter @nireyal. If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling...
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This morning, the crew of the International Space Station opened the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon capsule and went inside. The Dragon docked with the ISS yesterday, becoming the first private spacecraft to rendezvous with the station. NASA astronaut Donald Pettit was the first aboard, remarking that it “smells like a brand new car.”...
Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. He specializes in developing IP strategy for young technology companies and blogs on this topic at StartupsIP. Follow Lenny on...
In case you missed it, Elon Musk’s SpaceX program successfully docked with the International Space Station, a first for a non-governmental vehicle, early this morning, and what a momentous occasion it was. Think about it, up until the past few years, space travel in the United States was for NASA only. It’s only a...
Makes me want to go back and propose to my wife all over again. Couple of tips: If you’re able to, watch it in 720p Once you’ve watched it once, watch it again keeping an eye on the bride-to-be’s expressions and reactions in the top right corner. (Via Waxy.org / BoingBoing) Article source: TNW...
Thingiverse See Also Use These 9 Gadgets To Take Your iPhone Photography Skills To The Next Level This New Startup Is Changing The Way We See File Sharing And Its App Isn’t Even Out Yet Why You’re Nuts For Not Using iTunes Match A lot of new and updated apps were released...
In Walter Isaacsonʼs biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson describes the time that Jobs cold called Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning, Inc., to learn about Gorilla Glass (which is now used in more than 500 devices). Weeksʼ assistant refused to put him through, but offered to take a message. Jobs described that as “typical East Coast B.S.”...
The game is over. That game where they get to hire you for 40 years, pay you far less than you create, and then give you a gold watch, and then you get bored, you get depressed, and you die alone. It wasn’t that fun of a game anyway. When I had a corporate...
Internet connections in Lebanon are notoriously bad, so much so that the Middle Eastern country is ranked among the very worst worldwide as far as speeds are concerned. That hasn’t deterred a pair of Lebanese entrepreneurs from launching a first-of-its-kind music service in the Middle East – offering unlimited and offline music streaming to its...
The legend goes something like this: as a child, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s father would relentlessly hound him to “Get better”, so Jack eventually banned the phrase from being tweeted. Go ahead and try it, the tweet won’t go through. But the legend? It’s hoax. See, way back when, Twitter wasn’t a popular smart...