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The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanYou Never Know When You've Had a Good Day
Many years ago, when I had just started working at USV, I remember there was kind of a complicated situation that unfolded in a seemingly bad way, and I'll never forget what Brad said in response. He said:you never know when you've had a good dayI didn't really understand what that meant, so he told me a story that went something like: back around the year 2000 at the height of the dot-com boom, there was a guy who was a senior exec at a successful startup. That person had a falling out with ...
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The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanThe Butter Thesis
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis. The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a tool we u...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanFrom Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
The Slow Hunch by Nick GrossmanYou Never Know When You've Had a Good Day
Many years ago, when I had just started working at USV, I remember there was kind of a complicated situation that unfolded in a seemingly bad way, and I'll never forget what Brad said in response. He said:you never know when you've had a good dayI didn't really understand what that meant, so he told me a story that went something like: back around the year 2000 at the height of the dot-com boom, there was a guy who was a senior exec at a successful startup. That person had a falling out with ...
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I came across a post this morning about a new service called Sendible. The basic idea is this: create messages of various types (email, sms, twitter tweets, facebook messages, etc) in advance, then sit back and relax as they get sent out right on schedule. Interesting idea -- apparently there are a few other services out there who do something similar -- not something I knew I needed, but intriguing enough that I decided to give it the old college try. This isn't a post about how Sendible works; I wasn't even able to get that far. This is a post about inspiration and, dare I say, plagiaration. What struck me from my first interaction with sendible was the remarkable likeness it bore to Facebook, in terms of visual design. Take, for example, the login screen:
I thought: "Wow, those look a lot like the Facebook blue buttons. Interesting... perhaps Facebook is inspiring some sort of standardization in UI elements". Then, I thought: "Wow, look at the sidebar over on the right side; that kinda looks like Facebook too. Lemme take a look":
That was enough to get me thinking, and mentally prepare this blog post. But I waited and decided to give Sendible a little more time. Next stop: my homepage:
Maybe it's just me, but I was again really blown away by the near exact likeness this (albeit in reverse) that this bears to Facebook:
Of course, I'm all for "fake it till you make it" and "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," but this seems to take it perhaps just a step too far. At least make it green or orange! Thoughts? Now, time to me to get back to the real business of deciding whether or not I need a message scheduler in my life...
I came across a post this morning about a new service called Sendible. The basic idea is this: create messages of various types (email, sms, twitter tweets, facebook messages, etc) in advance, then sit back and relax as they get sent out right on schedule. Interesting idea -- apparently there are a few other services out there who do something similar -- not something I knew I needed, but intriguing enough that I decided to give it the old college try. This isn't a post about how Sendible works; I wasn't even able to get that far. This is a post about inspiration and, dare I say, plagiaration. What struck me from my first interaction with sendible was the remarkable likeness it bore to Facebook, in terms of visual design. Take, for example, the login screen:
I thought: "Wow, those look a lot like the Facebook blue buttons. Interesting... perhaps Facebook is inspiring some sort of standardization in UI elements". Then, I thought: "Wow, look at the sidebar over on the right side; that kinda looks like Facebook too. Lemme take a look":
That was enough to get me thinking, and mentally prepare this blog post. But I waited and decided to give Sendible a little more time. Next stop: my homepage:
Maybe it's just me, but I was again really blown away by the near exact likeness this (albeit in reverse) that this bears to Facebook:
Of course, I'm all for "fake it till you make it" and "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," but this seems to take it perhaps just a step too far. At least make it green or orange! Thoughts? Now, time to me to get back to the real business of deciding whether or not I need a message scheduler in my life...
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