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Most web services or applications comes along with a terms of service. The terms of service is basically the rules of the road and what users agree to when using the service.  When startups are just being born, they often can’t hire lawyers to do a proper terms of service, nor can they imagine every […]

One of the coolest things about Disqus, which powers the comments on my tumblr, is that I can publish comments via email. It’s quick and efficient. If I lose connectivity the mail client is smart enough to try again later on its own. Several other apps provide a way to email content to their app. […]

Many startups in our portfolio hire their early team by focusing their recruiting efforts exclusively on their community. In the early days, Twitter and Tumblr heavily favored hiring folks that were active and engaged users of their respective products. It’s one of the best filters around as far as I’m concerned. Today I had yet […]

When you go to a tech meetup, tech party, or read tech headlines, it’s easy to get swept away into thinking things are soaring for a number of startups. Company xyz now has a zillion users, another company just went viral, overnight sensation, etc. It’s easy to fall in love with those headlines or worse, […]

There comes a time in every company where the leader or founders have to decide whether they are going to take a big risk or play it safe.  I met with a founder last week that was telling me about his frustration with his company. Things are going very well considering but he can’t get […]

Our team at Spark Capital has evolved a bit since we started in 2005. Since that time, we promoted Alex from Principal to General Partner. We promoted Mo from Principal to General Partner. And we promoted Andrew, from Sr. Associate to Principal I’m proud that we’ve been able to grow the firm by giving members […]

Last week a friend told me they were going to start a blog. They asked me the difference between WordPress, Tumblr and a few others.  This post is an attempt to explain that answer.  I’ve been using Tumbr since 2007. Almost 5 years later and I’ve created over 6k posts. I’m proud to call myself […]