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Why VC Firms Are Snapping Up Designers
Why VC Firms Are Snapping Up Designers alexainslie: “Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, one of the world’s most prominent VC firms, has one. Google Ventures, the investing arm of Google, has five. The design partner—a designer who helps manage and select investments—is becoming a mainstay role at venture capital firms.” -Mark Wilson
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warrenellis: It’s 2150 There are all sorts of Aliens living throughout space. Johnny is a Space Delivery Man who travels to different planets to deliver packages. Johnny is lazy and his only desire is to sleep in his autopilot spaceship. when the spaceship arrives at the destination, all he has to do is simply deliver…
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What can we learn from 1954’s great year in film?
What can we learn from 1954’s great year in film? shrinkrants: Sixty summers have now passed since one of cinema’s greatest anni mirabiles. The entire decade rears like one long Himalayan chain of artistic eminence, but no year quite matches 1954 for sheer concentrated… … if Rossellini, Mizoguchi, and Buñuel made three films apiece in…
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inadeestroya: iwillnotshavemyvagina: From Facebook After spending years developing a simple machine to make inexpensive sanitary pads, Arunachalam Muruganantham has become the unlikely leader of a menstrual health revolution in rural India. Over sixteen years, Muruganantham’s machine has spread to 1,300 villages in 23 states and since most of his clients are NGOs and women’s self-help…
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strangewood: Andrei Tarkovsky“And is Chaplin—comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated. He is unadulterated hyperbole; but above all he stuns us at every moment of his screen existence with the truth of his hero’s behavior. In the most absurd situation Chaplin is completely natural; and that is…