Check out The Anatomy of a Large Scale Social Search Engine, best paper I’ve read since coming to Stanford (co-authored by Sep Kamvar). What if there were a social media 2.0? Something to build on the mass of friend networks and status updates to do something really interesting—beyond just interesting visualizations? Vark does that. It’s ...
Note to self, get funded by someone on the below list. From Business Week: It’s no surprise that most angel investors are successful entrepreneurs. You can see that in the list of names below—Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, to single out a few. But are they as successful in the role of angel investor? ...
While business school rocks, one of the my favorite courses this quarter is in computer science. In CS 294H, Sep Kamvar and Jeffrey Heer teach social software design principles (e.g. tips for online dating) to teams of 2-4 developers building apps over 10 weeks. This quarter, buddy Neema Moraveji and team built out LineHive—a site ...
Is Beth Kanter someone who: a) has 300K+ Twitter followers? b) raised 200K+ for Cambodia kids to go to school using social media? c) is giving a PoST lecture at Stanford on her birthday? d) All the above (hint, right answer) Above: Beth speaks this morning at Stanford about Cambodian orphans Once upon a time, ...
McKinsey’s twitter account for GSB recruiting is where I first learned about coffee chats with Lauren Ullman (Stanford MBA ‘07), this year’s McKinsey campus ambassador for the GSB. In my mind, it makes a big difference talking to alums versus corporate recruiters. Alums have hands-on context for both the school and the role, so conversations ...
Wrote an article on speed reading a few weeks ago that got picked up on the blog of Steve Yoshida, an MIT Sloan School MBA: Above: Excerpt from Steve Yoshida’s post on speed reading I can’t read Japanese, so I ran Steve’s blog through Microsoft Translator, an online service transforming websites from one language to ...
David Lieb would have been a second year MBA at Booth had he not dropped out to found Bump Technologies—famous for the iPhone app letting people exchange contact information via fist tap. Below: 35 second video on how Bump works Released in March 2009, Bump became the billionth iPhone app downloaded from iTunes. It’s become ...
John Doerr said something like ”Email me three books you like read, and I’ll email you a list of my favorites as well”. He spoke last week at the GSB with fellow Kleiner Perkins partners Trae Vassallo and Chi-Hua Chien. Above: (left) Trae Vassallo; (right) John Doerr It’s days like these when I can’t believe ...
Did I read this right? Is a VC offering startups $10K plus use of a Menlo Park office, fully-stocked kitchen and even a shower—without taking an equity stake? Above: Info page on Summer Fellowship Program from Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners offers a Summer Fellowship program that surprised me last week. I’d spent the ...
It used to take me half an hour to change my oil at Michael’s Toyota in Bellevue, Washington. Today I changed my oil and topped my fluids in a third of that time at 9 minute oil and lube on 3839 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, 94306—less than 4 minutes away from Stanford. Instead ...