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GUEST: It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more difficult to join as a partner. I recently went through the process myself in joining HOF Capital, and I thought it would be helpful to share some of my process.
If you join a fund, you’ll invest your financial capital but also — and more importantly — your reputational capital. So start by sharing an institutional LP due diligence checklist with the fund

A couple of years ago, a small publisher called Kroncker Wallis issued a handsome, minimalist take on Isaac Newton’s Principia. Now, the publisher is embarking on its next project: Euclid's Elements.The publisher is using Kickstarter to fund this new edition. Euclid’s Elements is a mathematical text written by Greek mathematician Euclid around 300 BCE and has been called one of the most influential textbooks ever produced. The treatise contains 13 separate books, covering everything

There are a few options for people who want to see President Donald Trump removed from office. There are plenty of calls for impeachment over his various scandals. There’s the ongoing investigation into Trump’s ties with Russia, led by Robert Mueller. And then there’s the effort to remove the president by diagnosing him with a personality disorder and invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows Congress to remove presidents deemed unfit to lead.
Law experts say this is unlikely t

GUEST: A few years ago at an incubator demo day, I watched open jawed as a would-be seed investor made funding commitments based solely on 7-minute presentations – without speaking with the team or conducting any due diligence. Investor odds may have been better in Vegas.
Silicon Valley has been inundated in recent years with a new breed of euphoric “tourist” seed investors. Unlike the many thoughtful professional seed investors who engage in due diligence and offer strategic g

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is hoping to launch his company’s Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in November, and with just a couple of months to go, the company announced that it has completed testing on all all three of the rocket’s first stage cores.In the tweet, the company says that three first stage cores have completed their testing, and showed off a video of a static test of one of the cores. The company conducted its first static test of the Falcon Heavy’s main core in Ma

President Donald Trump announced today that he intends to nominate Oklahoma Representative Jim Bridenstine as NASA’s next Administrator. If confirmed by by the Senate, he will replace acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, who has run the agency since Trump took office in January.In a statement, Lightfoot reaffirmed that Bridenstine needs senate confirmation, but that he looks forward to “ensuring a smooth transition and sharing the great work the NASA team is doing.” Bridensti

Parenthood can be a nightmare, and horror movies frequently play on that trope. There’s an entire subgenre of creepy-child films, from The Bad Seed to The Omen to The Babadook, and they all tap into the creeping anxiety that comes with having children. Netflix’s Little Evil is the latest to join the ranks. On paper, it’s fairly rote — as disturbing supernatural phenomena pile up, Gary (Adam Scott) begins to suspect his new stepson Lucas (Owen Atlas) may be the Antichrist.

(Reuters) — Video streaming device maker Roku Inc filed for an initial public offering on Friday, as the company looks to cash in on the booming demand for such services.
The Los Gatos, California-based company said it applied to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ROKU”.
Connected to televisions, Roku devices provide access to services offered by Netflix Inc, Hulu, Amazon.com, Starz among others.
Roku had 15.1 million active accounts as of June

Lucasfilm has released a new trailer for the fourth and final season of Star Wars Rebels, along with a release date: October 16th, 2017.The new trailer shows off quite a bit to look forward to: space battles between the Empire and Rebels, the Imperial occupation of Mandalore, the introduction of X-Wings to the Alliance, and of course, Grand Admiral Thrawn and his Noghri assassin, Rukh.There’s some major connections to last year’s standalone film, Rogue One: Saw Gerrera also makes an

A few years ago, gamers had a good laugh when they learned that a Chinese chicken meat company bought Digital Extremes, the maker of Triple-A games such as The Darkness 2 and Warframe. Then the company bought Splash Damage in 2016, people did a double take again.
Alex Xu, the CEO of Leyou, was the guy behind that. He was the chief business officer at Perfect World, a Chinese role-playing game maker that acquired Cryptic Studios and publishes titles such as Neverwinter. To do more deals, he left

Let’s face it: it’s been a traumatic and troubling summer, with the news focused on white supremacist uprisings, North Korean saber-rattling, the latest net neutrality war, and a catastrophic hurricane. Labor Day weekend is a good time to take a step back from the news, grill some food, spend time with loved ones, and enjoy the three-day weekend. It’s all part of the process of resetting from summer and getting ready for fall.The holidays are also traditionally an intense time

Zombies are everywhere, with blockbuster TV shows like The Walking Dead and in Game of Thrones, and films such as 28 Days Later, World War Z, Zombieland, and many others. That popularity stems directly from George R. Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. A new video essay from Kristian Williams delves into how one mistake with the film’s release led to the renaissance of zombie stories that terrify and entertain us.
That popularity is due in part to the fact that when Night of

Not to sound like your dad, but every movie now is at least half an hour too long, right? I went to see Logan Lucky this past weekend because I guess I’m an Adam Driver fan now and I needed to figure out if Daniel Craig was bald or just blond (blond, for the record). Anyway, the movie got to a point where it seemed like it was almost over, and I thought, “This was pretty good, even though Adam Driver’s Southern accent was insane.” But then, it turns out, the movie wasn&rs

The NBA gets it. Or at least the Philadelphia 76ers do. The traditional sports basketball team made history in 2016 when it acquired two separate esports teams and merged them into Team Dignitas, one of the premiere professional teams in the fledgling world of competitive gaming.
Market researcher Newzoo predicts that esports will grow to a $696 million business this year, a number that helps explain why traditional sports teams are so interested in their digital counterparts. I caught up w

It’s Labor Day weekend, and in addition to squeezing in the last few hours of summer, it’s also a great time for deals.Best Buy is offering a blanket deal on Apple’s iPad Pro models, including the most recent 10.5-inch version that was released earlier this year. And with iOS 11 set to come out in a few weeks and massively overhaul the iPad software experience, this sale could be a great time to upgrade your hardware to get ready.Plus, deals on Kindles for students, a PlayStati

Roku Inc., the company that makes various streaming devices and smart TVs, is going public, according to papers filed with the Securities and Exchanges Commission yesterday. It is looking to raise $100 million, and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticket symbol “ROKU”.In the SEC filing, the company reports that it had 15.1 million active accounts as of June 30th, 2017, and that those users have “streamed more than 6.7 billion hours on the Roku platform,”

Virtual reality has reached the “trough of despair,” according to FooVR founder Will Smith. The industry is struggling with disparity in the demand for high-quality VR experiences and the relatively small potential customer market for those kinds of products. Both consumers and publishers are in a holding pattern until something changes, but FooVR isn’t waiting. Smith’s company is making moves to leverage its interesting animation technology in other creative spaces while

Chances are you’re celebrating Labor Day weekend by grilling some burgers and hot dogs — but this beloved end-of-summer ritual may harbor some health risks. All those sizzling, juicy meats you love likely contain chemical compounds that could increase your risk of cancer. There's still a lot we don't know about the consequences of grilling meat, so there's no reason to panic, but there are steps you can take to mitigate this potential risk.
When meat is cooked at high temperatures &m

A research team at MIT has created a clever new way for drones to use RFID technology in warehouses for stock-keeping purposes. It lets companies use much smaller, safer drones to find stuff in giant buildings than was possible before.
When RFID tags started replacing bar codes in warehouses, they were supposed to help automate and improve the accuracy of inventory management. The small tags, which are briefly activated by the radio frequency of a reader, have been adopted and used everywhere fr

Earlier this week, Google announced ARCore, a software-based solution for making more Android devices AR-capable without the need for depth sensors and extra cameras. It will even work on the Google Pixel, Galaxy S8, and several other devices very soon and supports Java, Unity, and Unreal from day one.
In short, it’s kind of like Google’s answer to Apple’s ARKit.
But that isn’t how Clay Bavor, VP of augmented and virtual reality at Google, would describe it. Ins

Susan Fowler showed just how powerful one voice can be against a big company. Now, she's fighting to make sure those voices can also work together.
Fowler, whose blog post chronicling her time at Uber eventually led to the ouster of founder Travis Kalanick as CEO, filed an amicus brief last week in a landmark labor law case going before the Supreme Court. An amicus brief is a document filed in a court case by someone who isn't directly involved, but has a strong interest in the subject or outcom

Google is turning 19 and we wanted to celebrate the world’s most popular search engine by showing off some of Alphabet’s family photos. We hopped in the Wayback Machine and took a look at Google.com from its birth to today. The company was founded in 1998, and even though Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing” was atop the Billboard charts, there wasn’t much to see: The first real version of Google.com came later, and a new age of text-based-search da

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In essence, cryptocurrencies are decentralized digital currencies that can be sent to anyone through the internet. They aren’t affiliated with any particular country so there’s no central bank that verifies these transactions. Instead, cryptocurrency miners use special software that creates a public record of each transaction and gives the miner a payment in return.
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You can't walk outside nowadays without encountering a product inspired by unicorns, be it a latte, lipstick, soap, or even a sex toy. At this point, the horned horses trend has pretty much worn itself out. But horned whales? Totally fair game.
SEE ALSO: This unicorn tape dispenser basically poops rainbows
Introducing: the Narwhal BBQ Skewer Set, a pair of two stainless steel "unicorns of

For a vestige of the past, the password has managed to hold on and remain alive — even though some of the top people in computing said that it had already died over a decade ago. In one of his more famous predictions, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that passwords were on the way out already in 2004. Problem is that Gates, for all his wisdom, didn’t tell us what to use to replace passwords. “There is no doubt that over time, people are going to rely less and less on password

Warning: Contains loads of spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 7, and some hopelessly dodgy predictions for Season 8.
Well, here we are: the absolute worst part of the year. The longest possible time until Game of Thrones comes back into to our empty, dragon-free lives.
SEE ALSO: 36 of the most memorable 'Game of Thrones' one-liners so far
If you've read any of my previous Game of Thrones articles, you'll know two things: 1) I'm a hopelessly obsessed individual who lives life largely through fic

Surface Mini images leaked earlier this year, and now we’re getting an even closer look at Microsoft’s canceled tablet. Evan Blass has published marketing images for the Surface Mini, revealing a red rubber case with a kickstand and full specifications. The Surface Mini was reportedly a 7.5-inch device with a 1440 x 1080 display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. It appears that Microsoft was planning black, red, and blue variants of the Surface Mi

James Bridenstine is ready to take America back to the moon. 
SEE ALSO: 'A Trip to the Moon' holds up 115 years later
With Donald Trump's Friday announcement that he intends to nominate the Oklahoma representative as administrator of NASA, Bridenstine is one step closer to his moon dreams.
Rep. Bridenstine is already on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and has been gunning for the head boss role at NASA. The position has been open since Trump's inauguration with acting admi

Facebook wants you to learn more about your mutual friends.
The social network is experimenting with a new feature called "Things in Common" that highlights details you have in common with your friends' friends.
SEE ALSO: How I finally broke my Facebook addiction
It's not clear how long the company has been testing the feature or if it plans to make it more widely available, but it offers an intriguing look at how Facebook is looking to boost users' interactions with one another. 
The featu

What to do when your football team is so crappy nobody comes to your home games? If your college is in New Jersey, you add a hot tub to the student section. Greetings from the hot tubs at the Rutgers game: pic.twitter.com/Bk91slvGrm
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) September 1, 2017To be fair, it looks pretty nice in there. And there's a lifeguard in case you OD on Vodka Red Bulls and start to drown. 
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Turns out we all may be "high profile" in the eyes of Instagram. 
A bug in the social media company's API reportedly allowed hackers to gain access to account holders' phone numbers and email addresses, with Instagram assuring everyone on Aug. 30 that it was the celebs of the world who were targeted. But that was then.  
Things are looking just a tad bit different now, with reports suggesting that as many as 6 million accounts were possibly affected and that regular old users may have

A day after releasing the first build that skips ahead to whatever will succeed the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with bug fixes and improvements. The company is simultaneously finalizing the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which is expected to arrive on October 17, and developing the update that will come after it.
Windows 10 is a service, meaning it was built in a very different way from its predecessors so it can be regularly updated with not

From the very start, you can tell something is wrong in Where the Goats Are. A sense of impending doom hangs suspended in the air as you click around, completing chores on a peaceful farm. It’s a slow contemplative game that’s out today for PC and Mac on the indie platform itch.io.
When I played an earlier build, I first noticed how cumbersome it was to move around as Tikvah. I’d get frustrated with her, and then feel guilty. Tikvah, unlike most video game protagonists, is a st

Iconic board game Settlers of Catan is coming to virtual reality. A new version is being developed by game studio Experiment7 — which previously created a pair of VR takes on chess — with feedback from the original minds behind Catan. The VR game, which is coming to both Oculus Rift and Gear VR and called simply Catan VR, is described as “true to the classic, but optimized for virtual reality” with “a fresh, fully-immersive format.” Unfortunately, right now th

In a matter of days, transgender model Munroe Bergdorf went from posting her excitement after being hired by makeup brand L'Oreal Paris to calling for a boycott of the company.
SEE ALSO: The dissonance between Vogue and Teen Vogue is finally too loud to ignore
Early Friday, the UK division of the company announced its partnership with the London model was ending after she posted a comment on Facebook that started with, "'Honestly I don't have energy to talk about the racial violence of white peo

It's not just you, Facebook's "Like" button has a new look. 
The iconic button has been given a redesign that's still slowly making its way to all users. Instead of the previous solid-gray look, the new "Like" is now mostly white with a gray outline. The comment button has been given a similar treatment as well.
SEE ALSO: You might want to rethink what you're 'liking' on Facebook now
Here's what the two look like side-by-side. Image:mashable compositeThe gray outline fills out in blue,

Watch out everyone — we've got a badass over here.
Anyone who owns a pet knows that keeping them off the comfortable furniture is no easy task, especially when it comes to keeping the dog off the couch.
While this pooch is gainfully employed in a comfortable office, she is not allowed on the fancy leather couch. So, according to Redditor ebbp, she lashes out in the most adorable way possible.
SEE ALSO: Spoiled doggo with 5 dog beds prefers the floorThe redditor dropped in the comment secti