Welcome to Scaling Technology Ventures at HBS. Looking forward to a great semester of discussions with you, along with case founders and CEOs, yielding rich + fascinating insights. Thanks, in advance, for joining the discussion here! #hbsscaling #hbsstv Tom Jones

Interesting to see that Second Life lives on with 600,000 extremely active users. A journalist with an anthropological bent examined life in this virtual community here: tinyurl.com/y7dzyzwe #hbsscaling

Our discussion of growth options for Alfred framed the classic definition of a "pivot": the strategy changes but the vision/mission remain the same. #hbsscaling

Hoping tech ventures can move faster to remediate sexism than Wall Street. Read, weep: tinyurl.com/zekbzzz The New York Times #hbsltv Jeff Bussgang

Less like a behemoth, more like a startup? Wired: GM beats Tesla to intro first mass market electric car. tinyurl.com/gmhorj8 #hbsltv

For social robotics case Jibo at HBS, worth thinking about the phenomenal success chatbots like XaioIce wired.com/2016/01/clive-… #HBSLTV

Hello? ATT to compete with Google and Amazon by urging workers to learn how to code. Good luck with that! tinyurl.com/h5h7lku #hbsltv

Why a plethora of acquihires have not solved Yahoo!'s mobile tech problem, from The New Yorker: tinyurl.com/hvtctal #hbsltv

First Netflix. Then Amazon. Now Apple is becoming a media company, with Apple News. Content = loss leader. apple.com/news/ #hbsltv

As AI meets robotics, "intelligent assistant" space is growing up. Now, there is a landscape as your guide. tinyurl.com/zcjwnve #hbsltv

When lean methodology works at scale: see Expedia's industrial strength customer discovery and A/B testing tinyurl.com/hnmu386 #hbsltv

Hey, Jibo Fans: Take a tour, after check-in with a velociraptor, at world's first robotic hotel. tinyurl.com/gtduwwl #hbsltv

Is Andy Rubin, father of Android, creating ultimate platform company with his new venture Playground Global? tinyurl.com/z9d76hf #hbsltv

Speaker Ryan, it's time to do something about guns in this country. Stop blocking the House vote. #NoBillNoBreak #HoldTheFloor Seth Moulton

SparkLabs #Asia #Accelerator. 56 #startups. $690m equity value. Jeffrey Rayport Josh Elman Joshua March Gerard Grech medium.com/@bernardmoon/s…

Chris Christie's Very Bad Day? Well, it couldn't have happened to a "nicer" guy. Glad he's not our next Veep...! tinyurl.com/jufnuo6

Should every museum director take a deep breath and get an MBA? It looks like Philip Campbell could have used one. tinyurl.com/h5tr7s2

Read inside story of how Uber and Airbnb captured lightning in a bottle in fascinating book excerpt from BW tinyurl.com/gttjlmf #hbsltv

Fascinating conversation yesterday with Yuri Milner about Internet value creation and SETI in Alpha Centauri at Founders Forum London. x.com/Founders_Forum…

Second Life lives on with 600,000 VERY active users. A journalist with an anthropological bent examines life in the community (or metaverse) here: tinyurl.com/y7dzyzwe. #hbsstv