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My Two-Year Journey to Home Electrification

Summary Electrifying our (Bay Area) home was a complex and drawn-out process, taking almost two years. * Installing solar panels and storage was particularly challenging, involving numerous hurdles and unexpected setbacks. * We worked with a large solar installer (Sunrun) and, while the individuals we worked with were highly competent, handoffs within Sunrun and with other...

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The Marketing Glory of NVIDIA’s Codenames

While code names are not rare in the corporate world, more often than not, the names tend to be unimaginative. NVIDIA’s code names, however, are pure marketing glory. Take NVIDIA’s high performance computing product roadmap (below) – these are products that use the graphics processing capabilities of NVIDIA’s high-end GPUs and turn them into smaller, cheaper, and more...

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The Goal is Not Profitability

Source: Next Generation Growth I’ve blogged before about how the economics of the venture industry affect how venture capitalists evaluate potential investments, the main conclusion of which is that VCs are really only interested in companies that could potentially IPO or sell for at least several hundred million dollars.