Dylan Tweney

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VC Tomasz Tunguz explains his approach to SaaS investing (podcast)

In this week’s episode, we talk with Tomasz Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint Ventures and a noted expert on SaaS company metrics. Tunguz explains how a law firm internship in South America when he was 17 launched him into tech, building a small software company and then winding up at Google before land

Dylan Tweney Nov 12, 2015 2 min read

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Using data to improve diversity — and business performance

Too often diversity discussions in business are framed as a zero-sum game: affirmative action versus meritocracy, minority versus majority, them versus us. There are some hopeful signs that the tech industry is starting to realize that this is not the case. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and Amaz

Dylan Tweney Oct 29, 2015 4 min read

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I, for one, welcome our new surveillance robot overlords

Knightscope founder and CEO William Santana Li is not modest in his ambitions. He estimates that crime — of all kinds — has an annual global economic impact of a trillion dollars. That’s $1 trillion lost every year due to theft, vandalism, robbery, violence, and more. He wants to cut that in half. A

Dylan Tweney Oct 22, 2015 3 min read

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Netflix reveals the future of enterprise tech: Here’s why

I was sitting in a conference on enterprise infrastructure this week when I realized that the generational shift long promised by cloud advocates is finally, irreversibly underway. That shift is away from “legacy” data centers built on x86 servers, VMware-managed hypervisors, SQL databases from Orac

Dylan Tweney Oct 15, 2015 3 min read

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What to Think: Belkin CMO Kieran Hannon tells all

In this week’s episode, we talk with Kieran Hannon, the chief marketing officer of Belkin. Hannon is widely respected and oversees some of the tech industry’s bigger brands, including Belkin as well as Belkin-owned Linksys and WeMo. He’s also a great conversationalist. We discussed his company’s mar

Dylan Tweney Oct 10, 2015 1 min read

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Twitter Moments joins a long lineup of attempts to curate the news

Twitter Moments is a latecomer to the social news curation game. Lots of people have attempted to extract useful signals about the news from the huge mess of social data, with varying results.

Dylan Tweney Oct 7, 2015 4 min read

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You think women in tech have a problem? We all have a problem

The tech industry’s complicated and sorry treatment of women has become a big topic. Lawsuits have helped blow up the issue. Most notably, former Kleiner Perkins partner Ellen Pao filed a discrimination suit against the VC giant last year, lost the suit this year, and recently dropped her planned ap

Dylan Tweney Sep 25, 2015 4 min read

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The writing is on the wall for the ad-supported Web: It’s the end of the line

The latest version of Apple’s mobile OS includes tools for developers to create ad-blocking software, affording mobile users the same freedom from advertising that desktop browser add-ons like AdBlock Plus and Ghostery have provided for years. That might just be the beginning of the end for the ad-s

Dylan Tweney Sep 17, 2015 4 min read

Rough Drafts

To embrace innovation, CIOs need to learn to let go

Faced with the prospect of becoming mere custodians of whatever cool projects their fellow executives in marketing cook up, CIOs are learning to embrace innovation on their own terms.

Dylan Tweney Sep 11, 2015 4 min read

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A VC and a labor leader walk into a workers’ rights debate…

Nick Hanauer and David Rolf are an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hanauer is a Seattle venture capitalist and was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. David Rolf is a labor organizer who once rallied enough support to unionize 74,000 home health care workers in Los Angeles. Yet the two of t

Dylan Tweney Sep 4, 2015 5 min read

Notes

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“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” — Oliver Sacks, quoted by Michiko Kakutani, in the NYT today (via Steve Silberman)

Dylan Tweney Aug 31, 2015

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The hidden costs of the on-demand economy

Despite what economists like to think, people do not always make rational economic decisions. That’s nowhere more apparent than in today’s service-centric, app-based consumer Internet. The fact is, people are willing to pay more — often a lot more — for services that are pleasant to use. Uber, Zipca

Dylan Tweney Aug 27, 2015 4 min read

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