February 2012
6 posts
New OSX could make the Mac as game-friendly as the...
The new version of OSX that Apple announced today feels like it could strangely make the Mac as valuable a channel for games as Facebook or the iPhone.
I say strangely because the Mac has typically been a backwater for games. Even with the the launch of an App Store, transition to Intel chips, and Steam coming to the Mac it remains a distant second fiddle to the PC which is itself in decline....
Clear for iPhone →
Like seemingly everyone else in the tech blogosphere, I’ve been playing with Clear, a new personal organization app from Realmac Software, for the past few weeks.
Super simple. Slick UI that’s bound to be copied quite a bit. Lovely.
Macstories, The Next Web, SiliconFilter, and TechCrunch have solid reviews.
(Disclosure: CrunchFund is an investor in Orchestra, a competitor to Clear.)
On becoming an investor and joining Spark Capital
Today I’m thrilled to say I’m joining the team at Spark, making the switch from entrepreneur to investor. I’ve known the guys at Spark for years and have admired the unique approach, and the unqualified success they have had. This is a big switch for me, but made easier by working with close friends that I respect.
As you could imagine I thought about this decision rather...
Stuck Like Glue: Zynga Accounts for 12 Percent of... →
Facebook said social games are currently responsible for “substantially all of our revenue” when it comes from payments.
In December, Zynga went public, raising $1 billion, and is obviously one of the companies most reliant on the social network. But now with Facebook’s financials also public, we can see that the two companies are actually interdependent.
Startups are not a chess game.
One of the really hard things to do as an entrepreneur is to not try and solve for too many problems at once. I’ve found it is one of the first things I end up talking to early stage entrepreneurs about (twice today, actually). And something I struggle with myself.
We like to think strategically: “what if we had that many customers?” “how is this going to...