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When I visited the two LAUNCH Incubator classes in December, it was to allegedly to see if there were any interesting companies to advise. My real plan though was to soak up some of their weekly pitch practice. We were working on an iPhone app for Recurrency that we planned to debut at the LAUNCHContinue reading “LAUNCH Incubator 3: The Legend Continues”

I love the new animated Recurrency home page design!

It depends. It’s not for everyone. Only apply to the LAUNCH Incubator if you want to: get Jedi-level presentation training – which will help you… get a “yes” from every angel investor you talk to – which will help you… attract a world-class team – which will help you… build a world-class product – which is made better when you… getContinue reading “Should you apply to the LAUNCH Incubator?”

Yesterday, Jonathan George and I launched Recurrency on stage at the LAUNCH Festival. Leading up to our debut, we spent 12 weeks in the LAUNCH Incubator doing pitch rehearsals. That training was invaluable and some of the other incubator entrepreneurs will surely be lifelong friends. What is Recurrency? For supporters and super fans, it means giving money to creators theyContinue reading “Make awesome possible”

“It’s not low quality reporting at all. It’s high quality reporting on low quality people. There’s a difference.”

Back in 2006 when Jason and I were working with some really talented people on a Digg-like social news version of Netscape, I called it Secret Project X. I even registered secretprojectx.com. I love that name. Some of the people from that same Netscape team were also busy working to get TMZ up and running on my old Blogsmith blog platform.Continue reading “Secret Project X”

I routinely mention the “three envelopes” story when talking to entrepreneurs about how startup CEOs often act when faced with a crisis. Many of them have never heard the story, so I’m recording it here for future reference: A new CEO was brought in to run a tech company. The CEO who was stepping downContinue reading “Three envelopes”

I had dinner with Brett Terpstra in San Francisco recently and it was so much fun that he asked me to be a guest on his Systematic podcast. Half of the show covered the upcoming return of Meet The Makers and the other half covered my quest to find a startup religion that worked for me.Continue reading “Brett Terpstra’s Systematic podcast”

Smart designers are asking why QWERTY keyboard layouts still exist on modern mobile devices. @mezzoblue Yep. Especially on smartphones where we don’t have decades of legacy muscle memory.— Mike Davidson (@mikeindustries) June 25, 2014 For a while now, I’ve been thinking that QWERTY actually does make sense on phones in a way that it neverContinue reading “The revenge of QWERTY”

I woke up on Sunday morning and saw four spam messages in my inbox from an old AOL account of mine that I almost never use. This isn’t a new thing, nearly every email address gets used to send spam via a process called “spoofing.” Spoofing happens because anyone can send email as billgates@microsoft.com via sloppy,Continue reading “AOL address books hacked”