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amanda peyton

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2025 1

  1. Just Pool, It’s Cleaner

2023 1

  1. Braid Is Dead, Long Live Braid

2015 2

  1. Awaiting the Next Hottness in Consumer Technology
  2. An Update on the Blog Archives

2014 2

  1. Is “Yo” Stupid Brilliant or Stupid Stupid? Let’s explore, shall we.
  2. Our Government is Failing Us – Thank You to Comcast Man for Pointing That Out

2013 2

  1. The Long Tail of Hardware
  2. Hardware is Real: Living it at Grand St. and Growing Up (Just a Little)

2012 43

  1. The Electronics Store of the Future and Grand St.
  2. Why DVF Putting Google Glass on Runway Models is Significant
  3. Like the Supercomputer It Is
  4. APIs for Manufacturing
  5. Hardware Disruption: Same Movie, Different Era
  6. A Stroll Through the Craigslist-Crusher Startup Graveyard
  7. The Peer-to-Peer Universe
  8. Human Attention is a Finite Resource (Eyeo 2012)
  9. Reinventing Journalism, Starring Quora
  10. Vanity Fair and an Oral History of Friends
  11. Cherry and the Service Layer of the Web
  12. Analyzing a $26 Magazine Impulse Purchase
  13. To Build a Thriving Marketplace, Build a Fake Thriving Marketplace First
  14. Scumbag Steve and the Reverse Meme
  15. Dessert Wine Market Ready for a Meme
  16. Mobile and Curation vs. Creation
  17. Badoo Now Advertising in the Subway
  18. Text it to Me – My Favorite Sleeper Feature
  19. The Art of the Playlist
  20. An Overheard
  21. Innovation Spaces
  22. The “Burner” Button
  23. Twitter Gem: Everyone is a Publisher
  24. Mechanical Turk Adventures: Favorite Mobile Apps
  25. Will Podcasting Ever Be Huge?
  26. Data In, Data Out and Foursquare
  27. Marketplace Tactics and the Free Airbnb Photo Shoot
  28. Peter Thiel on Contrarians
  29. P2P Mobile Payments and the Dinner Table Challenge
  30. Doin It Well: Rap Genius and the Importance of Superfans
  31. A Thought on Television Pricing, Featuring Gumroad
  32. iPad in My House: Wishlist
  33. Kickstarter is Totally Disrupting Consumer Electronics Probably By Mistake
  34. Multi-Device Seamless Syncing
  35. On Anonymity
  36. Meteor’s Mission Statement
  37. Instragram Acquisition is Huge for Mobile-Only Entrepreneurs
  38. “Fish: a tap essay” is Awesome, Future, Here, Now
  39. Rant on Email Notifications
  40. Hijacking YouTube for Fun and Profit
  41. Girl Walk // All Day is Epic: Some Thoughts on the Future of Entertainment
  42. Swagger-Jacking: Beyonce, Pinspire and Why Copycats Are Good For Business
  43. My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought

2011 9

  1. Getting Excited About New Products
  2. MIT and the “Ecosystem Hacker”
  3. Person as Distribution Channel: A Case Study of YouTube Star Dave Days
  4. The Way I Like to Write
  5. Free Business Idea: iPad Marketplace
  6. Great Social Services Have East Coast Roots (+New Website!)
  7. Rachel Sequoia, “Share the Air” and Niche Memes: From 30 to 100,000 YouTube Views in 5 days
  8. Welcome to Mobile 1.0
  9. Is Quora Ready for Pop Music?

2010 13

  1. Back to Blogging.
  2. On Determination: Black Swan vs. The Social Network
  3. I’m a Female Y Combinator Founder and You Can Be Too
  4. Why I am Switching to a Paid Email Newsletter
  5. Meet the new MySpace, it’s called Badoo
  6. First Post. OK not Really.
  7. Hello, B-School Graduation
  8. Privacy is Expensive.
  9. Why Blippy Will be Huge: Popularity Modeling, Consumer Tech and the Music Business
  10. Ling's Cars: Subtle Brilliance and a Lesson for Design Elitists
  11. Is First-Mover Advantage a Myth? (With Graphs!)
  12. Pain. Or, Why Learning to Code is like Learning Chinese.
  13. January in Silicon Valley

2009 29

  1. DARPA Red Balloon Challenge and the Diminishing Power of Elite Networks?
  2. Screens Everywhere! The Coming Microprojector Revolution
  3. Mint, Aggregators and the Cost of Changing Habit
  4. StackOverflow – A Model for the Future of Education on the Web?
  5. Not Exactly "Wet Hot American Summer", But Close: My Summer as a VC Intern
  6. Foursquare's First Town Holler, "Foursquares", and the Future of Mobile Social Media
  7. Gaming bit.ly: A New Kind of Domain Speculation?
  8. Morgan Stanley Digital Media + Teens Survey – Full Text
  9. New York Tech Meetup + An Alternative to Seed-Financing?
  10. Want Seed Financing? Try DC or NYC.
  11. Teaching Entrepreneurship = Teaching Creativity
  12. All I Want for Christmas is a Boxee Set-Top Box
  13. Dealing with Rejection
  14. Memetic Engineering – Seeing $$$ in Memes
  15. On Timing.
  16. Ideas Evolve – Let Them.
  17. Internet Week NY: Celebrating NYC's Tech Scene, One Social Media Seminar at a Time
  18. MBAs + Financial Crisis. Is it Worth $150K for Three "Scarlet Letters of Shame"?
  19. The "Real-Time Everything" Dilemma
  20. AlwaysOn Venture Summit East – Keywords: Optimism, VC Model Adjustment and "The Cloud"
  21. Why I Heart the MIT $100K
  22. MSOs Take Note: I'm Unplugging my Cable
  23. Class Selection
  24. Web 3.0 – Just Another Buzzword?
  25. The Awkward IP Discussion
  26. URL Shorteners + Hype + Theories
  27. That company is worth what?!
  28. Yuppie Brunch: Celebrating Restaurant Consultants on Easter Sunday
  29. First. Or not.