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Howdy, I'm MG Siegler. I’m a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch. This is where I collect things.

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Lots of questions about the PandoDaily situation. To be completely honest, I’m a bit surprised by how this went down. I think Michael’s response is appropriate. 

The problem seemed to be us participating in TechCrunch Disrupt (and I assume more Michael than myself since I’m still a TechCrunch contributor). But we both speak at a lot of conferences. And I view it as valuable that we speak at a lot of conferences — for both us as a brand and our portfolio companies.

I still think PandoDaily has an opportunity to evolve the tech blogging space. Unfortunately, it won’t be with myself or Michael involved in an editorial capacity. Oh well. Plenty of other places to write on the Internet. Like right here, for example.

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JK Exits TC

jasonkincaid:

It isn’t easy to feel sad when you’re standing in front of a 14-foot ape who’s wearing a polo shirt, a backwards baseball cap, and, for reasons only its designer could explain — no pants. And yet, there I was.

Actually, “sad” would be an understatement. I was downright gloomy. Even the…

Classy farewell by Jason Kincaid on his way out the TechCrunch door. I worked with Jason for three years and I honestly can’t wait to see what he chooses to do next. Besides our OMG/JK reunion show, obviously. 

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Reblogged from jasonkincaid.net  Source jasonkincaid

I was reading your post about Apple's 2011, and I was surprised by the sheer number of articles you had linked in there. I've always wondered, how do you and the other TechCrunch writers keep track of all these posts, especially those that are from several years in the past?

Asked by Anonymous

Most of the time, it’s a mixture of Google Search and memory, to be honest. I wish there was a better way.

For that long Apple 2011 post, I simply looked at all the posts tagged with “Apple” from 2011 — it was something like 45 pages worth of posts. A huge pain in the ass because, as many of you know, TechCrunch is not the fastest-loading site on the web. It took all day to go through all of those.

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Limbs Are Replaceable, Heads Are Not

As you’ve probably heard by now, Heather Harde — my boss for the past three years or so — has quit AOL. There’s not much more to say beyond what Mike already has. This is just really sad — sad because it never should have gone down this way.

Heather was far and away the best boss I ever had. She’s also the hardest working person I’ve ever met. She could and probably should be the CEO of dozens of other companies in Silicon Valley. Hopefully she’ll do that now, if she wants.

Forget myself or Paul or Sarah leaving TechCrunch. Forget even Mike leaving TechCrunch. Heather’s departure is by far the biggest blow to the company — and Mike would be the first to say that.

Given its scale (which we all built over the years) TechCrunch will survive without Heather, but it will never be the same. I honestly can’t think of a single person they could put in place that would be able to do a fraction of what Heather was able to do on the business side of things. It will be totally different now. Maybe that’s fine, but it will never be better.

Again, this is all just incredibly frustrating because it really didn’t have to happen this way. And yet, it did.

Thanks for everything Heather.

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On The Next Venture

I’ve been thinking about how I was going to write this post for a while now. Of course, I didn’t anticipate that I would be writing at 2 AM local time in London, where I’m currently visiting to speak at FOWA in a couple of days (that talk also just got potentially much more interesting).

Stuff happens. Fortunately, sometimes, so does jetlag. 

Enough with burying the lede: yes, I’m becoming a VC. I couldn’t be happier to announce that I’m joining CrunchFund as a general partner. It’s my honor to join Mike and Pat in that role. And I thank them for the opportunity. 

Before I say anything else, I should also make something clear: as Erick states in his post, while the timing of this announcement may seem a bit odd given the recent drama involving AOL and TechCrunch and well, CrunchFund, this move has been a long time in the making for me.

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Engadget Distro

While it seems a bit odd, I like this concept. Taking your best longer-form content, adding polish to it, and distributing it on its own via a tablet (meaning, of course, the iPad). It turns a fast blog into a more leisurely magazine.

One thing I’ve never liked about content on the web is that 99% of it looks like absolute shit. There’s plenty of good content (including pictures), but it’s often wrapped in an ad-heavy shit sandwich — TechCrunch included.

I would love to see my best content wrapped in an elegant package, like a beautiful magazine. 

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