The Un-Stone Age
This post is a follow up post on our systemic dependence on the Internet, and is as a result of general encouragement of Phil Hotchkiss. It is estimated that as we exit 2011 50% of phones will be smart phones. So what? Well, just as more and more of our ...
Current Tech Destroys Newspapers, Future Tech Supports Them
There is increased discussion about the imminent end to newspapers, such as the quote by the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr: Asked about his response to the suggestion that the NYT might print its last edition in 2015, Sulzberger said he saw no point in making ...
Feature or Product or Business or Defensible Business?
Sanjay Anandaram posted a great article in Plugged.in, and I suggest that you read the full article, though to get his full perspective. The money quote for me is: Today I know that a feature doesn’t make a product. A product doesn’t make a business; And most importantly, a business ...
Life Mechanics
As a child I read books about Transactional Analysis and OneUpmanship, probably at the prompting of my mother. I found these interesting in the way they described bow people play games in life and expect a reaction for every action. Have you never been in a crowd and someone waived ...
Raising Money? Easy? Investing? Easy? - Why Not?
A few days ago Dave McClure posed this: This was the consummation of a heated debate on Twitter regarding a blog posting by Niki Scevak entitled Angel Index Funding Bullshit. Niki argues that Ron Conway and Dave McClure by investing in a large number of startups leads to them being ...
The Internet of People
Since the mass adoption of services such as LinkedIn and Facebook people have increasingly come online using their real names. There has been a shift from representing yourself as angrybear101@aol.com to using your actual identity. This phenomenon is culturally more important. I like to refer to it as the Internet ...
