Wade

This is a really great idea. What's competition like in the space? And how do you source investment properties?

@SlackHQ has been called the command line for non-technical teammates. (For one instance of this idea, see Partyline's "Future of UI" – http://partyline.rocks/blog/futureofui/.) For those who never built a website or tinkered around with code, slash commands may be a person's first exposure to programming. Other companies, like @jgvandehey's Growbot, use ascii and emoji to trigger events. There...

This is going to be huge. Nextdoor Now takes on the help-wanted section of Craigslist in a way that Handy cannot. We feel a connection to those who are from our neighborhoods and share an implicit trust with them. When it comes to hiring a tutor or a babysitter for our kids, parents would much rather see verified profiles of neighbors than the nameless, faceless stranger on the internet....

SURELY this is satire.

@aeisenberger wrote a post about this trend just the other day: https://medium.com/@aeisenberger/messaging-bots-and-slack-a52c894a4b2d#.xff226yu3. Messaging is becoming the dominant medium in tech - look at the share of minutes spent in Messages (iPhone) and Messenger (Facebook) and the applications that are being built for both (Bitmoji and giphy for Messages; FB M&A's everything else)....

Oh, awesome. These are two of my favorite people to listen to in tech. With their friendship and past in business together, the chance to hear these two together on the same podcast is gold. With Jerry moving to Boulder, hopefully there will be many more. From the episode description: Longtime friends, Brad Feld and Jerry Colonna talk on Reboot Podcast #25 about VC’s as Dungeons and Dragons...

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