The last few months have been quite a ride for me.
I’ll save the lessons learned (and there are many) for a later date, but the question I’ve been asked the most since January is, “how long are you staying at Causes?”
This question probably has something to do with the last time I was part of an acquisition, but a lot is different this time around.
This time, I didn’t find out about the acquisition of Votizen by reading TechCrunch in the morning. This was a...
Michael Lewis in his 2003 book Moneyball wrote in-part about how baseball has become an unfair game controlled by the big-spending teams. The same can be said of our political system, and the problem is only getting worse.
Article I of the Constitution contains the following:
After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall...
Some years ago, Fortune magazine coined the term “Paypal Mafia” for the former executive team at Paypal that went on to shape Silicon Valley over this past decade, from founding companies of their own to making investments, and advising the next generation.
Ever since, people have been trying to label the next mafia. The Facebook mafia is mentioned quite a bit as we approach their IPO, and even the Twitter mafia has a singular fan out there.
Here’s a prediction: the Paypal...
People often ask me to explain Votizen, and I always enjoy watching someone’s face light up when I share our vision for the future. However, until now, I’ve never published where we’ve been, what we’re building and where we’re headed. With over a million voters now reachable through our platform, it’s time to fix that.
March 2011: Get your voting history, and use it to certify messages to Congress
We flipped the switch on Votizen in March of 2011. At that time, it was a product...