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Published December 25, 2012 at 900 × 530 in Jason is wrong: Winter is coming, and revenues aren’t the answer for everyone

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GREMLINS, 1984, singing Christmas carols

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The Week in Review

Monday

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You are your data: The scary future of the quantified self movement The new Flickr: Biggr, Spectaculr, Wherevr Yahoo didn’t buy Tumblr. They bought Tumblr’s market position Google closes Checkout, pushing thousands of merchants into Braintree’s arms Pass the pipe: Gawker’s “Crackstarter” is skeezy but potentially significant Sorry, NYC, Tumblr selling to Yahoo was not the “win” we needed On the outskirts of the Maker Faire Why Yahoo’s track record with acquisitions isn’t relevant to Tumblr Writers should be paid Don’t confuse Google’s ubiquity for openness NextGuide Web launches. Can it possibly be a discovery powerhouse? Minbox: The way file-sharing should work Former MySpace and NASA security exec raises $700k, launches Prevoty to defend websites against malicious user code Yahoo buys Tumblr and Mayer “promises not to screw it up” like past deals Forget armchair activism, new app Buycott helps people shop with a conscience

Tuesday

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PopExpert raises $2 million for its video teaching marketplace The race to a “smart” television is over. Xbox won In biggest pan-industry push since SOPA, tech leaders get set for March for Innovation The importance of grit, rules, and discipline In Oklahoma’s time of crisis, Sparkrelief is working to unify relief efforts Memo to this year’s YC class: It’s damn hard to build an enterprise company What are the effects of RelayRides’ New York cease and desist? Finally, a Lumia-like device unbound by Windows Phone How a Valley veteran found happiness and opportunity building tech in Mexico Yes, the Valley can be vacuous – but it’s more complicated than the New Yorker would have us believe The case against Shinichi Mochizuki as bitcoin’s “dance away genius” Swipely raises another $12m from tiny Rhode Island Is influencer marketing over? Here’s another pivot, this time from Wahooly ServiceMax’s SaaS platform could make training technicians and replacing software a thing of the past

Wednesday

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Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito’s H2 comes out of stealth Forty more tickets on sale for our John Doerr PandoMonthly! (And a new venue…) Too small to fail: The partnership-driven nature of fintech startups Jaron Lanier: Information doesn’t want to be free, and ads are screwed Data, heart, virality, and leadership: Five tips for today’s entrepreneurial journey YouTube network Fullscreen adds NBCUniversal and HBO veteran Tim Mohn as new SVP of Engineering Totsy burns through $34 million, lays off its 83 employees, selling assets Why people are ignoring Windows 8′s new interface and using the “traditional” desktop instead Eat Club hits the road to feed hungry office workers A new iOS game looks to kickstart neuroscience education Bill Gross’ UberMedia launches UberAds, using social and location data to better target on mobile Skyhigh Networks raises $20M to control unauthorized cloud programs used in the enterprise “If you’re building specifically for mobile, you’re in the past” Scanadu asks Indiegogo users to test its “tricorder,” but don’t call it a pre-order

Thursday

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John Doerr doesn’t think Google Glass is like the Segway John Doerr on the great entrepreneurs of the last half-century John Doerr: “The tech industry is doing a good job in politics” John Doerr still sees a future in cleantech John Doerr: Microsoft might be the “fifth horseman” HP versus the headwinds, part 17 Silicon Beach: The Selena Gomez of SoCal’s tech industry Watch out USA, Canada’s coming: A Google Hangout on immigration reform Skillz rides skill-based real money gaming to pass 1M downloads in its first two weeks The bible belt’s “porn problem”: Religious cities watch as much porn as non-religious cities Pixel Press turns your child-like doodles into videogames Fandium raises $1.25 million for sports app that blends storytelling with betting Has content discovery reached its logical end? YC alum’s new service Loom aims to be photo management for the mobile world Appboy expands to help Android developers avoid heartbreak Zippy Picovico attempts to take on Animoto from the mountains of Nepal JustFab acquires The Fab Shoes in search of European domination, approaches $250M revenue rate Rallyverse, a platform that helps brands spread authentic content, releases API Original “growth hacker” Sean Ellis’ Qualaroo hacks the marketing conversion funnel Nextdoor: “We stopped everything we were doing and trained every engineer on mobile”

Yesterday

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Four simple strategies for monetizing your video content John Doerr: “Venture capital has changed and I need to adapt” Tumblr’s David Karp in his own words: a Pando meta media mashup Is the Internet of Things the future of narcissism? Lessons from Segway: Why John Doerr no longer makes $1 billion predictions PayDragon proves that mobile grocery ordering is sticky, sees revenue grow 35% per week Kickstarter and the view from the trenches of TechShop The pageless Web The uncomfortable difference between being a founder and an employer Enter the Ninja: A startup attempts world domination on “Internet of Things” from Australia Invalid coupons suck. Shopzilla’s Robot Oatmeal uses crowdsourcing to solve this problem Luxury brands are still unsure about how to engage the Web’s unwashed masses Proof we’ll never tire of photo sharing: “A Beautiful Mess” hits #1 in app store