Today, I discovered Laissez Faire Books while looking into a book mentioned by bitcoin investor Trace Mayer in this interview. We have a long history of brilliant minds encountering opposition…[Nicolaus Copernicus] came up with the quantity theory of money in 1516. He wrote a book on interest rates in 1526. (Around 15:00) After a bit of…Continue Reading…
I recently discovered a startup called PlateJoy that offers meal delivery (but the meals are not cooked — they provide ingredients and recipes). Technically, the ingredients (in my case) were delivered by Instacart. That went flawlessly: somehow the deliveryman even managed to get inside my apartment complex (“The door was still open,” he said) and…Continue Reading…
I decided to print some postage from Stamps.com for a package that I was sending via USPS. I didn’t have a printer handy, but I decided I’d try the printing function anyway. My plan? Print to PDF, and then later print that PDF with my next-door neighbor’s printer. Unfortunately, the Stamps.com website doesn’t use the…Continue Reading…
Batch 6, the latest cohort, concluded 2 weeks ago. Some might say that my startup has graduated. Indeed, it’s a bit like finishing school. Since then I’ve contemplated how to wrap up my 500 Startups experience. Back when the program started, I wrote about Week One. That was a fairly text-heavy post with just one…Continue Reading…
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