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Moms Are Mad As Hell And…Well, They’ll Just Have To Shop Elsewhere
It hasn’t been getting much tech blog attention, but moms are seriously pissed at Amazon. The company has curtailed its benefits for its “Amazon Moms” program, and it did so in a less than upfront way, sparking an emotional uproar from parents who had grown to rely on the service’s steep discounts. Taking a page out of the great…
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I Can’t Believe Arianna Is Turning My Old Office into a Nap Room
There are a small number of readers who can’t get enough of the inside baseball of the TechCrunch implosion. And a large number of readers who wish we’d all just move on. I’ve tried to take the high road at all opportunities, because the former are mostly just rubberneckers and the latter are serious readers who want to read great…
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I Swear, We Didn’t Make This
This is the first and only time you’ll ever see a Hitler parody video on Pando, but… well… it’s brilliant. It’s so brilliant in fact that we’re seriously considering featuring Hitler in our logo. Go here for the video. -
Wait a Minute. Part of Starting a Company Is Dealing with Reporters?
I’ve been a regular guest on NBC’s Press:Here since the first episode with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. If you’ve never seen the show, it’s like Meet the Press for entrepreneurs. Several reporters gang up on some poor CEO, and typically I ask the most obnoxious questions. I hadn’t done the show for a while, given the whole giving birth,…
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Unless You Are A Lawyer, Please Don’t Comment On This Post
In case you didn’t know, Kim Dotcom, the founder of mega-site Megaupload has been indicted and is awaiting extradition to the United States from New Zealand. Dotcom is accused of money laundering, racketeering, copyright infringement and a host of other crimes. That’s all well and good, it’s the justice system, and people don’t seem to have a problem... -
Get Thee To A Punnery
This time last year, Khoi Vinh — former design director of the New York Times — wrote a heart-wrenching post entitled “The sad story of illustration of the web.” In it, Vinh mourned the fact that, thanks to 24-7 publishing schedules and slashed budgets, web publications rarely commission original illustrations. Instead, says Vinh, “digital publishing traffics…
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Say It Aint So Coco: The New Ads on Conan Make Me Weep for the Future of TV
You should watch Conan on TBS. Mostly because I like him and feel badly that his ratings slumped once we all got bored of the Jay Leno outrage. But also because the show contains all sorts of glimpses of the future of television advertising. And that future– while understandable in a TiVo world– is increasingly annoying. Last night, Conan…
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Humbling the Shameless Samwer Brothers
I have never met the Samwer brothers, so this may be unfair. But they just piss me off to no end. They’ve cloned Zappos, Groupon, AirBnB and now Pintrest with the shamelessly named Pinspire. Bear in mind, I’ve actually defended “copycat” companies around the world. Frequently so-called clones are tailored so much to their local markets that they’re no…
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In the Battle for San Francisco, Entrepreneurs Are Finally Winning
A year ago I wrote a scathing piece about a bizarre disconnect happening in San Francisco. Our economic sector was being boosted by high-tech companies that were — for the first time in decades– choosing to headquarter themselves in San Francisco and not the suburbs. This was all the more important because we weren’t in an economic period like…
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Wait a Minute. I’m a Woman AND I Started a Company?
Aside from all this, there’s a nice side-benefit about starting PandoDaily: I can officially now call bullshit on people (usually men) who insist women don’t start companies in the Valley, because men don’t let them. For the record: I experienced zero sexism during the process of raising money for PandoDaily. And that’s remarkable, considering I actually took my…






















