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Mitch Kapor
Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
Born: Nov 1, 1950
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Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. Mitch Kapor
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The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. Mitch Kapor
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'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. Mitch Kapor
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For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool. Mitch Kapor
You People Complement Say Francisco Oakland Bay Bay Area Brooklyn Both Area Hot New Know Look York New York San Who Cool
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear. Mitch Kapor
Health Fear Care Critics More Costs Rationing Health Care Health Care Costs Without Imposing Reversing Escalation Than Reform Done Going Legislation Care Costs Need
A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem. Mitch Kapor
Needs Business Problem Practice Big Down Typical Paper Records Individual Performance Like Overall Track Big Problem Any Transaction Which Measurements Old-Fashioned Helpless Medical Keeps Basically
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time. Mitch Kapor
Today Time Health Change Better Behavior Physician Pay Changed Pressures Would Outcomes See More Economic Physicians Over Exempt Am Were Tests Human Patients Order Human Beings Procedures Regimes Created Convinced Incentives Perverse Beings Foster Appointments
There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.' Mitch Kapor
Great Me Great Deal Doctors Machine Some About Data Entry Between Like Clerk Practicing Deal Misunderstanding Hears Suspicion Patients Want Turned Among Things
The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale. Mitch Kapor
Technology World Collective Realistic Creation Broadband Finally Scale Possible Online Adoption Computing Advances Making Continue Personal Widespread
Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. Mitch Kapor
Life Experience Made Truly Lab Revolutionary Breakthroughs Technological Second
E-mail is a victim of its own success. Mitch Kapor
Success Own Victim
StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people. Mitch Kapor
People Way Recommendations Web Online Individual Mastered Content Discover Friends Personal Preferences
I originally invested in Dropcam because I foresaw what the company and their products could do for consumers and the industry. I've been deeply impressed with what they've done in such little time, and I'm confident that they'll continue to exceed my expectations. Mitch Kapor
Time Exceed Could Invested Consumers Industry Because Continue Been Impressed Expectations Done Confident Little Little Time Products Company Originally Deeply
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. Mitch Kapor
Will Consequences System Devastating Support Failing Long-Term California Continue Public
Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base. Mitch Kapor
Technology World Social Media Startups Back Entrepreneurship Proud Passionate Impressive Dynamic Social Customer Capital Exploding Product Team Base Media Intersection
We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology. Mitch Kapor
Technology Carefully Examine Very Any
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. Mitch Kapor
Too Promise Distribution About Atomic Cheap Talk Talking Without Always Meter Been Questions Predictions Electricity Illegitimate Utopia Utopian
Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos. Mitch Kapor
Change Will Year Every Think Our Way Apps Photos Purchases About Host New Edit Shoe Revolutionize Ordering Transform Fundamentally
Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up. Mitch Kapor
Inspire Passion Long Uncertain Arduous Through Entrepreneurs Develop Days Frightening Gets Them Successful Products Start-Up Early Early Days
Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put. Mitch Kapor
Life Best Extraordinarily Hierarchical More Purposes Put Individuals Mass Primitive Audiences Conditions Than Egalitarian Often Frontier Decentralized Which Cyberspace Communities Serve Elitist
Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community. Mitch Kapor
Life Commitment Liberty Diversity Community Thomas Thomas Jefferson Would Exactly Pluralism Seems Individual Individual Liberty Shaping Primacy Like Up Wanted Cyberspace Jefferson Founded
Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. Mitch Kapor
Old Thinking Ways Particularly Were Legally Die Die Hard Enforced Hard Old Ways Monopolies
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus. Mitch Kapor
Better Simple Strategy Would Failed Understand Been Lotus Straightforward Much Product
I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. Mitch Kapor
Education Public Education Think Crisis Public Agreement Widespread
We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. Mitch Kapor
Technology Anxiety Living Computer Era Communications Produced
The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in. Mitch Kapor
Today Wild Wild West Out Computer Open Environment Like Territory West Lot Cowboys Moved Different Farmers Radically Now
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