So who will make the first app that lets me strap my iPhone to my back wherein its sensors feed a program on the device, or more Siri-like on a remote server, that keep me upright after swilling pints all afternoon?
I guess version 1.0 has a backpack with a segway-like bundle doing the heavy lifting. Version 2.0 communicates with my inner-ear to hack my natural mechanism for balance.
Doesn’t this sound a lot like an iPad in 1972? Edwin Land engaged Charles and Ray Eames to make the video. Was Land an influence on Steve Jobs? And @thoshughes? This video?
Cool transportation concept out of MIT. Half-size prototype in the video, the actual will be about same size as a Smart when unfolded, much less when folded to park / store.
Spending a laze Sunday afternoon catching up on email and reading, just now finally had a chance to view Sal Khan’s TED 2011 presentation about flipping education around.
If you don’t know about this, he’s the guy who posted some crazy number of very popular Youtube videos teaching 10 minute chunks of everything from chemistry to maths to history to economics. It’s a revolutionary approach to teaching and something I think is the future, watch the video and be prepared to start shaking your head yes.
And Khan’s approach appears to an area where both Google and Bill Gates agree.
The topic today is founder control -compel vs convince. After a series A round can the founders retain control of the board?
I feel like we’re at a tipping point here. A lot of VCs still act as if founders retaining board control after a series A is unheard-of. A lot of them try to make you feel bad if you even ask—as if you’re a noob or a control freak for wanting such a thing. But the founders I heard from aren’t noobs or control freaks. Or if they are, they are, like Mark Zuckerberg, the kind of noobs and control freaks VCs should be trying to fund more of.
And BTW, since I’ve been reading and working more than posting let me wish all of you who I did not get to see / talk to in the past few months a happy and merry holiday!
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