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...with LILOs, business plans are an afterthought because you can try your idea first at minimal expense, without persuading others to buy in. Or, as Joi Ito, another well-known tech investor, told me recently, "the cost of mapping it is almost higher than the cost of trying...
Will it be the next Facebook? The next Blogger, Digg or Twitter? Who knows? It almost goes without saying that many more start-ups fail than succeed. Reid Hoffman, founder and CEO of the job-networking site LinkedIn and an angel investor in many start-ups (including Facebook), says, "The biggest problem facing any website is distribution." In a world where it's so easy to start a company, how will anyone find yours...
...asked that all the time. Here's the deal: if I were in my 20s, I'd be like, Oh yeah, no problem. But I'm almost 42. I had three orthopedic surgeries in the fall. My body breaks down much more than it would if I were in my 20s. But I haven't reached my peak. I'm not ruling it out, but I'm going to take...
Some lives are like Hollywood soundstages, all façade, and suicide is the instrument by which their hollowness is revealed. Increasingly, though, this tragedy works in reverse. Hollow men (it's almost always men) add mass murder to their suicidal outbursts, hoping to mask their nothingness with a front of brutal significance...
...celebration was premature. It remains almost impossible to accurately track the population of illegals using data from the census, which doesn't ask people their legal status. Harder still is to tell whether people are leaving the U.S. or simply deciding not to enter in the first place. (Many researchers believe it's the latter.) There's anecdotal evidence that more young workers are staying home in the south than before. Border-patrol arrests are down 24% this year on the U.S.-Mexico border. But for those who are in the U.S., the twin pressures - increased enforcement and a worsening...