How Anyone Can Create Their Own Luck. Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups. Editor’s note: Aileen Lee is founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs reinventing work and personal life through software.
Previously, she joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 and was also founding CEO of digital media company RMG Networks, backed by KPCB. Follow her on Twitter @aileenlee. Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Why do investors seem to care about “billion dollar exits”? Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies.
So, we wondered, as we’re a year into our new fund (which doesn’t need to back billion-dollar companies to succeed, but hey, we like to learn): how likely is it for a startup to achieve a billion-dollar valuation? To answer these questions, the Cowboy Ventures team built a dataset of U.S. History of the browser user-agent string. In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.
And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), and there was more rejoicing. And Netscape supported frames, and frames became popular among the people, but Mosaic did not support frames, and so came “user agent sniffing” and to “Mozilla” webmasters sent frames, but to other browsers they sent not frames. And Netscape said, let us make fun of Microsoft and refer to Windows as “poorly debugged device drivers,” and Microsoft was angry. And so Microsoft made their own web browser, which they called Internet Explorer, hoping for it to be a “Netscape Killer”.
And Internet Explorer supported frames, and yet was not Mozilla, and so was not given frames. Tech news and exclusive articles - Techi.com.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. 1.
Opening This Book Pretend that you’ve opened this book (although you probably have opened this book), just to find a huge onion right in the middle crease of the book. (The manufacturer of the book has included the onion at my request.) So you’re like, “Wow, this book comes with an onion!” (Even if you don’t particularly like onions, I’m sure you can appreciate the logistics of shipping any sort of produce discreetly inside of an alleged programming manual.) Then you ask yourself, “Wait a minute.
No. I’ll be straight with you. You really must sob once. 2. So try this first bit of poignancy on for size: Natural architecture - an emerging art movement that is exploring mankind's desire to reconnect to the earth, through the built environment. Kids talk Science. This page is brought to you by UC Berkeley Parents Network Back to the Jokes & Quotes Collection THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL QUOTES FROM 11 YEAR OLDS' SCIENCE EXAMS: * "Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin.
Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water. " * "Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull. " * "When you breathe, you inspire. 6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke. As we have previously complained, it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between parody and real life.
Is that Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots movie starring Hugh Jackman intentionally silly? Or was somebody behind that really trying their best? So maybe it's no surprise that through history, lots of things that were created to be intentionally bad mockeries were loved unironically by audiences. For instance ... #6. The "chase" cartoon is a classic trope in the animation genre. Via Wallpapers4Desktop.net"Mommy, what does 'DVDA' mean? " 7 Mind-Blowing Structures Built in Secret. Humans build incredible things.
Chances are good that you passed something on your way to work this morning that would make our ancestors accuse someone of witchcraft. But we never stop to wonder what awe-inspiring creation someone could be producing right under our noses, because why would anyone build something impressive and keep it a secret? Plenty of (usually insane) reasons, it turns out. Ignoring the seeds. Dearest Darling Friends, Millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts & then forget where they hid them…From the squirrels I learn, ‘Do Good & Forget’.
This will produce results and make this world a better place. “Fallen flowers can’t climb back”. If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don’t think too much about the ‘lost’ past. Nature uses broken things beautifully. Broken Cloud pours Rain! Broken mountains carry rivers! Broken water flow creates waterfalls. Broken Soil Sets as Field! Broken nuts provide nourishment! Broken Crop yields Seed! Broken Seed gives Bread! Broken bag enables a baby to be born. From nature I learn, broken things can be purposeful. Ignoring the seeds. Quotes » Fact Fanatic. I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain Wise men talk because they have something to say.
10 Examples of Incredible Starry Night Sky Photography, and a How-To Video.