10.24.2012

goolge+ hanging out out from your phone - you can pin the video







Hanging out from your phone? You can pin the video.


Have you ever Hangout from your mobile phone and got annoyed with the video 

jumping from one person to another every time someone made a sound?

You can now PIN the person you want to see, by clicking on their image and then 

the pin icon.
















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MORE INFORMATION http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/from-the-app-store

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10.23.2012

APPLE-IPAD-MINI-LAUNCHED-GET-SOON-


Apple expected to introduce 7.85-inch 'iPad Mini'

Device expected to sell for around £200

Firm faces stronger tablet challenge from Google and Amazon

Event begins at 18.00 UK time


































Updates to Macbook laptops also possible eagerly waiting for the updates released by apple 

10.17.2012

THE GREAT APPLE BUYS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE


THE GREAT APPLE BUYS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE- firm for them - their use for it



Particle, a San Francisco firm that creates HTML 5 web applications, has been acquired by Apple for its staff, according to reports.

The company was bought last month, CNet reported, and had around a dozen employees. 
Not all of those have moved to Apple, the report said, but those who have describe themselves as 'creative technologists'.

Started in 2008, one of Particle's backers was Justin Timberlake, the pop singer and actor known for his role as Sean Parker in The Social Network, the film about the creation of Facebook.

However, Timberlake has also dabbled in technology investments, including a stake in Specific Media, the online advertising company that bought social network MySpace.
Apple has not commented on the acquisition. The company acquires smaller firms quite often but seldom publicists its deals. 

One of Apple's most notable recent acquisitions was Siri Inc, the artificial intelligence service that Apple bought in April 2010 and which formed the foundation of the iOS Siri 'personal assistant' software first announced in October 2011.

and one more good news said by APPLE inc.., they are going to launch new ipad with 7, 10 inches of screen size report says it going to launch soon this week 

source telegraph

10.14.2012

SKYPE REACHES 45 MILLION USERS


In case you thought Skype may be slowing down while settling into being a part of Microsoft and recently celebrating its ninth birthday, here are some numbers that seem to indicate otherwise: Last week, Skype reached a new peak of 45,469,977 concurrent users online, part of a strong run for the peer-to-peer voice/video/chat service this year. Overall it has seen an increase of 70% so far in 2012, compared to growth of around 30% for the same period in 2011.

The numbers seem to indicate that despite the company now being nine years old; going through two acquisitions — once becoming part of eBay and now part of Microsoft; and facing more competition than ever in the form of Google and others, it is still gaining ground impressively.

A source close to Skype (but not at Skype) brought the user peak, and growth, to our attention, and pointed out some other interesting facts:

– He says the 45 million figure comes after Skype added 3 million active concurrent users in a single month, a faster rate than ever before.

– He also notes that the company has seen an 8% month-on-month increase.

– During holiday periods, Skype’s number of online users usually falls. “The time it takes to recover from this is important,” he notes. “This year the summer lull was just 135 days. Historically, the ‘summer dip’ has been as long as 6 months.”

Acceleration on a minutes-usage basis started happening leading into 2012, as illustrated by this graph from the Skype Numerology blog, although Skype has not provided recent figures to update this.



– Monthly active users also appear to be speeding up. In June 2012, Skype noted that it had reached 250 million connected users per month; October 2011 saw 200 million and December 2012 saw 150 million: in other words, it took 10 months to reach 200 million, but only eight months for the next 50 million to reach 250 million. To date, there have been 3,202,250,105 downloads of Skype clients (although this shouldn’t be seen as a sign of usage).

This last month is not the first time that Skype has seen a sudden growth spurt this year. Voice on the Web in March noted that Skype concurrent usage shot up by 4 million in the space of a couple of weeks: it was at 32 million on February 24 and reached 36 million on March 11. Between March 11 and October 11, Skype’s on average been adding more than one million users per month.

What we don’t know — although we are asking Skype for more detail — is where that growth is coming from. At the time of the user burst earlier in the year, Voice on the Web wondered about the “Microsoft effect” on Skype — either in the form of tracking users better, or cross promoting the product better, or releasing a client for Windows Phone in February.

It could be a combination of all three. It could also be down to the fact that it is available on more platforms than ever before: in addition to that Windows Phone client launched in February, in June, Skype announced 70 million Android downloads, and Comcast started to offer Skype on its Xfinity connected TV platform. That is on top of the iPhone app that Skype has been offering since March 2009.





Or, as our contact notes, it could be just a sign of how “mainstream” Skype has become. No longer the terrain of early or even middle adopters or those that are technologically minded, but anyone with a decent phone or computer who wants a way to make a cheap call.

And what we also don’t know is how well Skype is doing in monetizing its users. The company is launching new products like free WiFi in the UK as it looks to build up other revenue streams through advertising services. And we have heard that Skype in the Workspace, a service aimed at small business users, is due to come out of beta this month. Like the WiFi offering, this too appears to be free — with the intention perhaps to get more engagement from business users, which might in turn start to spend more money on premium services, and become potential targets for other Microsoft products.

As we said above, we’re reaching out to Skype to see if it can offer any more color on the above, and to confirm the figures. Microsoft is reporting its quarterly earnings later this week, on October 18, and there may be more numbers and other details revealed then, too

10.13.2012

networking-beyond-facebook


NETWORKING- BEYOND-FACEBOOK










Take a  very quick look around at your friends list, and you have  sure to see  least 1/2 of your them snapping away them to  upload  the photos on Facebook or texting them  and updating status from their mobile phones. It’s so clear that this social networking site has to had a very huge impact on our lives style. It’s revolutionised of our trips, our parties, friends groups  much more.

Though Zuckerberg recently said that Facebook has introduced  hit an astonishing one billion members in the website, other social sites are slowly but surely making their mark very easily. Each one serves slightly different purposes for sharin them, creating a niche in the market for their living , and it seems like the masses love it. Take a look at some of these sites making their way up the ladder rather fast.

The contenders






Who are the major players in this market, besides Facebook?

Tumblr: This unique website allows the  users to create  an mixed-media blogs with it , posting anything it may  from text and quotes the pictures and videos etc... Users has allowed to make their blogs private in the network or share them with the public views. Users can also follow other blogs to see what their friends online  are up to do it . Today, its popularity seems to be  stem on from the fact that it is basically lets a user ‘download’ their thoughts in it  multiple forms, through an easy-to-use of ‘dashboard’ platform.

Pinterest: Though the barely two years old, this  is the website has captured the interest of many poeples, the  especially among younger audiencesin this globall. The site allows they  users to ‘pin’ photos with they they like, like: arts and crafts, clothing, food, movies … you name it! the can also Users can also look through other ‘pinboards’ for inspiration, and can ‘like’ or ‘re-pin’ images. While the site is not widely used in India, its influence is slowly spreading in the globally, as many brands shift their focus to advertising on Pinterest them.

Instagram: Turn to your best friends and ask them if they’ve heard of Instagram. You can bet that they have. Instagram is everyone’s new favourite photo-sharing site and application. From snapping pictures with your family and friends and editing them with cool effects to taking professional photographs for public viewing, Instagram serves many purposes. Though it might get a little annoying at times to have your “photographer” friend snap pictures of you on his/her camera phone and load them on Instagram, everyone can appreciate the unique social opportunities that this site
more info provides.





Twitter: A little over six years old, Twitter has become popular (and sometimes infamous!) among celebrities, news icons and musicians. For those of you who are a little behind times, Twitter allows users to send little messages called ‘tweets’ of 140 characters or less to those who are ‘following’ their feed. It also allows users to ‘re-tweet’ a post that they liked. A friend of mine was recently overjoyed when her favourite actor ‘re-tweeted’ her post about his new movie. It is just another way in which the media and the public are becoming closer, thanks to this digital age.

The others: There are many other social sites slowly gaining attention from users. Meet up shows people the ‘happenings’ around town, according to their interests and preferences. LinkedIn serves more as a professional area to find people for jobs and let employers know that you’re looking. Flickr is popular with those interested in photography and allows users to browse through millions of beautiful images shot globally. The list goes on. But these sites are yet to gain much ground in India, especially in Chennai.

The failures





Sites like Orkut, Google + and Hi5 have been on the social networking scene as well. But they haven’t lasted all too long — or at least, they don’t seem to be as popular with this generation’s digital users. Why? As a grade X student, Shriya K. put it, “Everyone’s already on Facebook. Making the switch seems way too hard, since everything you need and everyone you interact with has already gathered on one website.” Others agree. Facebook has ensured such a large following for itself that getting everyone to switch to other platforms is quite difficult. This is definitely a reason for the ‘Google +’ fail, as people have now termed it. Further, each site has a different feature to offer, and all these are constantly being added and re-invented by the Facebook team. Even though the other social platforms might be more attractive or more user-friendly, people want to stick to what they know best.

I use Instagram to upload my photos and edit them at the same time so I can share my photos with friends. Let alone sharing it with friends, get cheap domain registration in tirupur with - www.way4domain.com it’s sharing your artwork with the world. I’d say around 300 of my friends are out there. It’s something that’s picked up in trend and a lot of people are getting hooked on to it, because it can be used easily with many devices. What I like best is the fact that you can edit your photos on Instagram, including adding blur etc., and also the option, which lets you to share the picture on Facebook and places outside Instagram. - Yadhushan Mahendran

I started using Tumblr for a college project, but then it was so great that I continued. At least 20 or 30 people that I know in real life are on there, and are active, so I’d definitely say that it’s a popular site. What I love about it is that it’s a community for people to create, to talk about, and to share things that they are passionate about – and that original work gets credited to a much larger extent than on other sites, in my opinion! - Chaitra Subramaniam

I’ve been on Google + for almost a year now. I find it to be much better than Facebook, actually. Though more people are now switching to Google + in my friends’ circle, I find that the same number of close friends who were on Facebook are on Google + as well. I feel that Google + hasn’t been as successful as Facebook because of the misconceptions surrounding Google’s ability to create an amazing social site, after their failure with Orkut. However, I genuinely believe that Google+ is superior to Facebook for virtual social interactions, in many ways. - Srishti Haldipur


10.10.2012

Bill Gates wishes technology to reach the poor

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has appealed to the Islamic world not to make same mistakes as the West by making technology out of reach of the poor.

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“As you focus on advanced technology, I want to exhort you to do something that in the West was largely neglected, and that is to keep in mind not just the needs for those who are well off and can easily afford the first generation of the technology but keep in mind over time, how, by making it low cost, it can also be of benefit for the poorest,” he told a conference in Abu Dhabi.

His remarks are likely to raise eyebrows among Microsoft’s customers. Mr Gates helped to grow the US company into one of the world’s biggest technology businesses by charging considerable sums for its Windows software, and recently ruffled feathers with a series of hefty price rises.

Speaking to an audience full of sheikhs and princes, he also called for a more business-like approach to charitable donations, focusing on return on investment over the long term.

"We have all made mistakes with our giving in the past, but we all get to learn where we might have done better, but there are some clear models,” he said. “If you can get health, agriculture and education right, it’s a springboard for development and allows countries to step up and become self-sufficient.

“They want to bring the same set of values used in the private sector [to establish] that it’s a sustainable impact and that you are not doing the same thing again and again.”




He used the campaign his charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been waging against polio as a case in point.

“When you get to the end of an eradication [of a disease] the cost per case avoided is astronomical but what it does is prevent all the cases for the rest of time. Unless we get rid of it, it could spread back. When we finish the job there are immense savings going forward literally tens of billions over time,” he said.

Mr Gates, also paid tribute to Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who died last year.
“Steve did a phenomenal piece of work. Most people would expect today that it was going out of business and he actually came back in and not only righted the ship, but made it incredibly valuable. It’s a phenomenal business story.

“Steve and I were friends, we were competitors, we were a lot of different things, but it was amazing what he did.”

However, Mr Gates, who remains chairman of Microsoft, but stepped back from the day to day running of the business four years ago, ruled himself out of making a similar return to day-to-day business.

“I spent about 15pc of my time as chairman of Microsoft, I give them lots of hints and things. 

They’re moving ahead with Windows 8, which combines the best of the tablet and the PC... but I didn’t retire from Microsoft because I thought things were getting boring. But I did decide that the philanthropic role would be the place where my contribution would be more unique, so that is what I will focus on for the rest of my life.”

Microsoft used to be the biggest technology company in the world, but has fallen far behind its rival Apple in recent years. 

The company, which is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, has struggled to keep pace with demand for the tablets and smartphones produced by its rivals.

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POWERFUL-ADDS-IN-YOUR-TOILET-PAPER


Is no place safe from ads?









Just when you thought you'd seen it all, brothers Jordan and Bryan Silverman have turned the male penchant for bathroom reading into a new business.

Their venture, Star Toilet Paper, places ads and coupons on toilet paper rolls.






Of course, the "Ah-ha!" moment happened in the can when Jordan was a philosophy major at the University of Michigan.

"I found myself sitting in the bathroom in the library, bored reading my phone," Jordan Silverman, 22, tells CNBC.com.







"It's a place where people have nothing else to do but read," Jordan says. A typical mobile phone ad is seen between two and five seconds. "While advertisements in the bathroom are seen between one and 10 minutes," he adds.





Businesses pay the brothers to put ads on the TP—which comes from wholesalers such as Georgia-Pacific. Jordan Silverman believes their business is the only one of its kind in the U.S., and they've filed for a patent, he told CNBC.com. "Other people have thought of the idea. We've actually done it."

The brothers' toilet paper is manufactured with 100 percent recycled, environmentally-friendly materials. And the ads are printed with soybean-based ink—and non-abrasive.

Rough start

In the beginning, potential advertisers didn't welcome the unique business model. "I've been cursed off. I've been yelled at. I've been hung up on many times," Jordan Silverman says. But Silverman and his 19-year-old brother Bryan kept at it.

"You look forward to the 'nos' because that means the next 'yes' is just coming that much sooner," Jordan Silverman said.

Advertisers eventually signed on and the company, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., prints ads for more than 60 firms, according to Silverman. Businesses include a smoothie maker, insurance office and doctor's office.

Star Toilet Paper then offers its ad-filled TP for free to venues including libraries, restaurants, bars and bowling alleys. Venues in New York, North Carolina and Michigan feature the TP, but it's not available for sale at retailers.

As their customer base builds, the Silvermans are growing their staff and seeking investors. They hope to expand into regional sales and beyond. The company is also targeting larger venues including stadiums, airports and colleges. Offering them free TP can be a "huge savings" for them, Silverman says.

As their Twitter handle @startoiletpaper proclaims: "Don't Rush, Look Before You Flush!"








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10.07.2012

VIEWDLE AND GOOGLE ARE NOW FRIENDS FOR A PROJECT

VIEWDLE AND GOOGLE ARE NOW FRIENDS TO DO A BEST PROJECT TO BE ESTABLISHED IN A CASE VIDEO REOCONIZATION FOR GOOGLE PRODUCTS


Google’s Motorola Mobility recently announced that it has acquired augmented reality and image recognition company, Viewdle. Motorola has not yet disclosed the price of the acquisition but industry speculation holds it between $30 million-$45 million.




VIEWDLE AND GOOGLE ARE NOW FRIENDS TO DO A BEST PROJECT TO BE ESTABLISHED IN A CASE VIDEO REOCONIZATION FOR GOOGLE PRODUCTS





According to a Motorola spokesperson:

Motorola Mobility today announced that it has acquired Viewdle, a leading imaging & gesture recognition company. Motorola and Viewdle have an existing commercial agreement and have been collaborating for some time. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Found in 2006, Ukrainian based company Viewdle now has its headquarters in Silicon Valley. Among the company’s investors are Best Buy Capital, BlackBerry Partners Fund, Qualcomm, KCP Capital and Anthem Venture Partners.

We expect the Google-owned mobile manufacturer to bring some new augmented reality or image recognition features to some of its upcoming devices, and are excited to see what they may be. Google has previously developed AR apps like Google Goggles, and demoed upcoming heads up display glasses, in its ongoing Project Glass endeavor.



BY...

BALAJI SRINIVASAN



10.06.2012

YOUTUBE AND FACEBOOK SITES BLOCKED IN KASHMIR :-0






The Internet-service providers have blocked social networking websites such as YouTube and Facebook in Kashmir. The companies have reportedly blocked GPRS facilities on the mobile phones as well. According to reports, the government had imposed a ban last week in a bid to prevent any untoward incident during the possible protests in the state against the recent anti-Islam video on YouTube.





According to an IBN Live report, the Jammu & Kashmir had ordered the service providers to make sure that the controversial hate video on YouTube was not accessible from the state. The order was released by the state Home Department, invoking the powers conferred under section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act 1885.

"In the interest of public safety and for maintaining public order, the government directed all licensed Telecom Service Providers and Internet Service Providers to make arrangements to ensure that their subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir should not be able to download or upload the contents" with regard to the video, the order said.

The service providers have confirmed the government ban on the social networking websites. Kashmir Watch in its report cites reply of a customer care executive of Airtel: “You will not be able to access Facebook and YouTube because the sites have been banned in Jammu and Kashmir. The services will be restore only after the ban is lifted, but we cannot be sure when that happens.”

“It is due to the ban imposed on Facebook and YouTube…We are sorry, but the sites are barred till further orders,” a Tata Docomo customer care executive is quoted as saying.


The move to ban social networking is receiving severe crticism as the general public was not made aware about it in advance. Also, people have expressed unhappiness over not being able to access e-mail and BlackBerry services. “Never has it happened in the past. We are facing huge problems in the communication due to the slow functioning of the service. We had also enquired from the officials of the BSNL but they are not taking our word seriously,” says a delegation of businessmen.

10.02.2012

PARLIAMENT-TEA-CUPS-ARRANGEMENTS

This posts shows the great thing happening in japanese parliament meeting ... even the arrangement  of TEA CUPS in parliament where aligned in a straight manner ..... you can see them on this picture

japanese tea cup arrangement in  the parliament -tea cup arrangement


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9.30.2012

APPLE BRAND NEW EAR PHONES-THAT FITS EVERYONE

APPLE'S-WWDC(WORLD WIDE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE)-2012-KEYNOTE -VIDEO



THIS IS THE VIDEO ABOUT APPLE WORLD WIDE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE 2012

some of the sanpshots... 
the most revailing connector for apple in the world for the apple 5- in new technology yo be used by apple ihone5-30 pin connection

the most strajatec product in the world with most thinest notebook in the market commin soon

the most thinest netbooks ever in the market with retine display
retine display


the most hih resolution netbooks ever in the market-by apple in  WWDC



BY...
BALAJI SRINIVASAN

Apple -“Most Powerful Mapping Service Ever”


Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has honestly admitted that Apple Maps isn’t as good as competing mapping services but the Apple website made a slightly contradictory claim. It said:






Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps gives you turn-by-turn spoken directions, interactive 3D views, and the stunning Flyover feature. All of which may just make this app the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever.

Apple Maps may be beautiful for some regions (where they exist) but the other claim isn’t quite true. I was checking the Apple website this morning and looks like they have changed the wording and are no longer referring to Apple Maps as “the most powerful mapping service ever.” The website now reads:

Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps gives you turn-by-turn spoken directions, interactive 3D views, and the stunning Flyover feature. All in a beautiful vector-based interface that scales and zooms with ease.

Apple executive spent around 8 minutes to demo the Apple Maps application at the WWDC conference, calling it a “worldwide effort,” but not once did they mention that the service had any limitations or problems.

The mapping service would not have become such a laughing stock worldwide had they set the right expectations in the first place. In case you haven’t seen it before, here’s the keynote video where Apple first showcased the Maps app in iOS 6.

REVOLUTION-IN-EMAILS


REVOLUTION IN EMAIL TO THE WORLD BY THE TECHNIQUES



This article is brought to you by Outlook. For more information about BrandSpeak, click here.

Whether you consider Morse code or telegrams to be the original electronic mail, sending text from one person to the next has certainly evolved. Take a look at how email officially clicked and has become a major part of our lives, consuming 28% of our workday.

1971: U.S. programmer Raymond Tomlinson allegedly sent “QWERTYUIOP” as the first network email, and he was the first to connect his computer to his mailbox by using an “@” symbol.

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1977: Tomlinson’s emailing method worked for networked computers using the same software, but many people began using the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPA) to connect outside networks.

1981: The American Standard Code for Information Interchange adopted a process of letters, punctuation and symbols to digitally store information.

1985: Government and military employees, students and academic professionals were common email users in the mid-1980s.

1991: ISPs allow widespread Internet access, but there were limited options for use until Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1991.

1998: “Spam” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary after its growth in the mid-1990s — not to be confused with the 3.8 cans of Spam consumed every second in the U.S.

SEE ALSO: How to Identify a Scam Email, 10 Fascinating Facts About Email
1991: Astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson sent the first email from space on a Macintosh Portable: “Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time, wish you were here,…send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby,…we’ll be back!”

1993: IDM and BellSouth marketed the first PDA-functioning 20-ounce cellphone, which sold for $900 and served as a phone, calculator, fax, email device and pager.

1997: Microsoft purchased Hotmail for approximately $400 million.

1998: The romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, hit theaters (and the website’s still live).

2003: The RIM 850 and 857 original BlackBerry smartphones were released, revolutionizing the mobile platform by concentrating on email.

2004: President George W. Bush signed the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 into law, which gained criticism for its lack of action against spammers.



2008: President Barack Obama became the first president to use mobile email and admit his addiction to his BlackBerry, and despite security concerns, he currently uses it in office.

2011: A study finds the worst email passwords are password and 123456. Others worthy of note: QWERTY, monkey and letmein. The password 123456 was also found to be the most common password during a 2012 email hack.

2012: There are more than 3 billion email accounts across the globe, and approximately 294 billion emails are sent per day. Roughly 78% of them are spam.

BY....

BALAJI SRINIVASAN

9.26.2012

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INVESTING RULES

Before I became a VC in 2009, I was an active angel investor for about ten years. During that time, I got exposed to the age old debate about the relative importance of team, market and product when making an investment decision.

People always argued about these things (and probably always will). Some say the most important factor is market because team and product can always change, but if the market and the tailwinds are big enough, a company can make many mistakes and thrive. Others argue for team because a great team in a mediocre market will change markets. Still others argue for product, especially in today’s age where word-of-mouth is so easy to spread through social media. Product-market fit can be such a powerful force that it can compensate for a weak team.

During those ten years, I also developed some more unconventional investing rules that have served me well when I’ve obeyed them and punished me when I’ve gone against them. They are designed to guard me against my biases and adverse instincts (I think everyone needs explicit processes to protect themselves from known blind spots or vulnerabilities). I’d argue that it was the slow realization of these rules that changed me from a losing angel investor in my first five years to a successful one in the next five. These rules are important enough to me that I’ve printed them out on my wall to serve as a daily reminder

Rule #1: Invest only in teams that don’t need you. 

I’ll start with the most controversial and most easily misinterpreted rule.

I came to this rule by making what I see as a classic mistake of entrepreneurs who begin to invest. When I heard a pitch, as an entrepreneur, I would get excited about what *I* would do that with idea. The wheels in my head would begin turning about how I might approach sales, what features I would develop as head of product, or what distribution partners I might sign up.

The problem? What I thought didn’t matter. Sure, I could advise the company and give the teams my ideas (bad or good).  But, in the end, it was *not my company* and my influence on it was very limited. Being an entrepreneur made me helpful as an advisor to the business but in many ways it made me a bad listener when it came to evaluating teams.

About five years into angel investing, I was beginning to suspect I had this problem (approaching investing solely from an entrepreneurial point of view). One day, I was talking about it with Marc Andreessen and he coined the fix for me, saying,  ”I only invest in teams that don’t need me.” Once I started following that advice, investment decisions became more clear and my results improved markedly.

I want to note a very important subtlety with this rule. When I say “invest in teams that don’t need you,” that doesn’t mean that you won’t mutually *benefit* from each other and be materially better as a result of your collaboration. Take one of my investments, the gaming company Kabam. Kabam has a tremendously strong team and they have more expertise than I ever will in gaming. And yet, I believe that our collaboration makes each one of us better in a meaningful way.

So, only invest in teams that don’t need you, but don’t conflate ‘need’ and ‘benefit’.

Rule #2: Impatience is the enemy

Despite being a private market investor, I love the public markets. When I was considering working in the public markets as a full time gig, a friend of mine and a successful public market investor, David Siminoff, suggested that I read the shareholder letters from Warren Buffet from 1977 to today as a narrative. It took me awhile, but I read them all back to back. When read as a history like that, it gave me an interesting perspective on how a great investor like Buffet handled a wide range of economic conditions, from high inflation to low inflation, from economic expansion to recession. 

Perhaps the most poignant lesson, stated again and again and again, was the notion that the biggest enemy in investing is our own impatience. We have a strong desire to *make money now*, and when unchecked, that leads to bad decisions. It namely lets us talk ourselves into investments that we shouldn’t really make. It lets us create excuses for teams that aren’t as good as they should be, or for markets that really aren’t there or aren’t as big as we’d like.

Rule #3: Know why you want to own something: FOMO or insight?

In my opinion, FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) drives a tremendous amount of human behavior and certainly a lot of investor behavior. There is always the hot deal of the month that’s being chased by many investors, who, if honest, are leaning in partially because other investors are pursuing it as well. They fear missing out on a deal that might turn out to be great. And this fear drives their desire to become an owner in the business.

Knowing that FOMO is a big behavior driver in investing is great for entrepreneurs to exploit. And many do if they can create a kind of feeding frenzy around their deal.

Resisting FOMO is not easy and the reason that I have the rule on my wall is (1) denial — most people don’t want to admit they’re ruled by or vulnerable to FOMO and (2) perception — it’s really hard to know you’re captured by FOMO.

This may sound obvious, but it’s often missed. You need a reason to invest – a critical insight –  and not just fear that you might be missing out on a good deal. The tricky part is that it’s easy to convince/fool yourself that you have an insight when you’re really just fearful and rationalizing. That’s why, I think, you need a process to determine if you’re being driven by FOMO or insight.

For me, that process is a question I force myself to consider.

I ask myself, “If the company hit a rough patch (and most do), do I have insight into the business to be able to help?” When I ask myself that question, and I’m willing to be honest with myself, the answer about if I’m pursuing something because of FOMO can become more clear.

Two years ago, my friend and fellow investor Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital), brought to my attention a deal in the finance arena. I spent two weeks working on it and I *loved* it. I was ready to bring it forward to my partners when I asked myself the “FOMO or insight” question, and I realized that if this company hit the skids, I did not have the insight to help. And, though it was tough because I *really* wanted to do the deal, I said ‘no.’

Only time will tell whether I was right on that particular deal, but I feel that the FOMO or insight question helps keep me honest.

Rule #4: In poker and investing, the goal is to make good decisions, not to make money.

This rule came from a three-day poker camp I went to seven years ago. One of the pros got up to the front of the room and asked the question, “What’s the goal of poker?” Of course, someone put their hand up and fell into the trap. “To make money” they said.  Wrong. “The goal is to make good decisions, not to make money,” countered the instructor. If you make good decisions — better, more consistent decisions than the other guy — then you will end up making money.

In poker, if you approach the game to make money as opposed to making good decisions, you can fall prey to things like going on ’tilt’ after a bad beat, feeling ‘lucky’, continuing to fire bluffs at an opponent who’s clearly shown you he’s willing to call you all the way down, or playing in games that you can’t afford. When you hunger only to make money *now*, then you end up making bad, mostly emotional, decisions.

To apply this to investing may sound heretical. But, it is my belief that the goal of an investor is to make good investing decisions and good operational decisions with their companies. If they do that, then money will follow (sure, not always, but more often than not). Yes, all investors are measured on making money.  But paradoxically, I think the best way to maximize that outcome is to focus on making the best set of decisions with your companies, rather than only focus, at every turn, on making money.

So there you have it. Four unconventional investing rules I’ve developed over ten years. As I said, they’re primarily designed to protect me against my built-in biases or vulnerabilities. My hope is that they’re helpful to you as well.

9.18.2012

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