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I just gave up all parenting responsibilities this weekend to Mark Cuban. Meaning, my kids and I watched eight straight episodes of Shark Tank. For the past two years, people have been begging me to watch Shark Tank. One friend of mine, who has co-invested with me on two deals, has given me two pieces […]

Today is a really bad day. I almost can’t talk about it. I’m sort of choked up. My Klout score went down. The second derivative of the rate of change of my number of twitter followers went negative. My Amazon score for my last book went up (better for it to go down, which in […]

Every Thursday I do a Q&A on Twitter. I’m really happy people ask me questions. I also encourage anyone else to answer the questions in the comments below. This is a free-for-all. I need to learn the answers also! Here’s expanded answers from this week’s. I expect to be done with the book, “FAQ ME” […]

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I missed investing in Google. I missed investing in Foursquare. I made fun of the guy who started Lycos.  I missed, I lost, I suffered, I cried. I could’ve started other businesses instead of the ones I did. I could’ve accepted job offers instead of lying in my hammock crying about failures. How much time […]

I don’t know what happened next. This is a photograph taken of workers in a gold mine who are on strike. The police are called in to put down the strike. People are staying slightly behind, in the distance, because they don’t want to get hurt. And yet, they can’t pull their eyes away. They […]

I asked Rodney Dangerfield what was the craziest thing he ever saw at three in the morning. Without skipping a beat he said, “Her husband came home!” We talked some more. He was more somber than I thought he would be. He told me how he was an aluminum siding salesman and then when he […]