Nivi

We just launched Recommended, a new feature on Venture Hacks.
It’s like match.com for investors and entrepreneurs. Here’s the summary from the launch post:
The most common question we hear from ent...

Warren Buffett on taxes:
“Relative to GDP, government taxation is 18.5% and spending is 20%, so we borrow the balance. The national debt should not be a scary topic and the fact that it’s gone up i...

This blog isn’t going away but, these days, I’m doing most of my publishing on these sites:
Venture Hacks
My Twitter
Venture Hacks Twitter
Delicious
Google Reader
Y Combinator News
You can su...

Naval Ravikant and I write a blog called Venture Hacks: an entrepreneur’s guide to hacking venture capital. Here are some excerpts from our latest articles:
Should I pay my investor’s legal fees?:
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From Jeffrey Pfeffer’s book, The Human Equation:
“You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns.”
You can find more amazing aphorisms on my Twitter profile.

I’ve been using FriendFeed to pull together everything I contribute to the Web via Venture Hacks, del.icio.us, Twitter, YouTube, digg, last.fm, LinkedIn, Yelp, et cetera!
FriendFeed doesn’t have a ...

Songbird 0.3 is here.
Songbird is the Firefox of media players. And Mosaic. And Netscape. And a bag of potato chips.
Imagine iTunes with the Web inside. Imagine iTunes sync’ing to every device in t...

There’s a lot of wisdom in Ken Hess’s Remarks to Software Forum Dinner Meeting (from 1997!):
Ken’s Checklist for Building a Company
This checklist is about getting the odds in your favor. Fitting t...

I laughed, I cried.

Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults
“All you have to do to turn the website on is put the little blinking line thing in the cyberspace window at the top of the screen, type ‘thegoogle.com...