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Hi. I'm Mike Kane, a Philadelphia guy investing in early stage venture companies. I co-founded Pour Richards as a way to bring interesting people together to talk about ideas. This saved me the enormous trouble of having to be interesting myself.Pages
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Category Archives: Satire
How to Answer Google’s Interview Questions
Q: Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
A: I don’t have an eight-year old nephew. There is no such thing as a database. What is the next question? Continue reading
An Open Letter to Santa Claus (With a Copy to Ropes & Gray)
If my happiness means anything at all to you, which it must since you are a holy man, let’s dispense with the moral accounting and talk about the loot I need. I am not going to spend an entire year behaving in a certain way that seems acceptable to an elderly man on a frozen continent whose social circle is a bit dubious if one is to judge from the animated films. I’d ask you please to put away your quaint notions of good and bad and get yourself down the chimney at my place on time. Continue reading
Why Burning Qurans is a Poor Source of Alternative Energy
The political, religious, and international relations aspects of the proposed mass burning of Qurans have been more than covered in the recent press. But the discussion of its status as a source of green or sustainable energy is strangely absent. … Continue reading