December 2009
9 posts
Stealth startups, get over yourselves
GREAT post on TC by Vivak Wadhwa and must read for entrepreneurs. In my opinion, success is driven 5% by the idea and 95% by the execution.
A telling snipit below:
The harsh reality is that even if you did build a better mousetrap, no one would find you. To be known, you have to have a great story and tell it to the right people. And to build a great product, you need to get all the feedback...
Network Evangelism
Much appreciated network opportunity analysis by Union Square Venture’s Andrew Parker. Achieving that win-win is truly a market/product-fit inflection point.
thegongshow:
There are many characteristics of investing in networks that interest me, but this one I’m about to describe might be my favorite. In a business where all the customers are organized in a network, in order for your...
Interwebs: staggering page loads as opportunities
A very insightful suggestion by siguy - intelligently staggered page loading used to highlight important content and advertising. The concept is real good, though it would require specialized coding to execute:
I had a mini-eureka moment today. I went to Google.com , something I almost never do, and noticed something simple and amazing. As the Google start page loaded I noticed that the...
Old media in a new world
I love watching traditional media evolve for the new realities of a digital world.
Below is a particularly interesting adaption of Sports Illustrated for tablet computers and book readers. I appreciate the innovative effort.
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Walking the tightrope between open & closed
@davenotik left an insightful comment responding to my recent post about Google Wave. His comment sparked some thinking about balancing proprietary and closed approaches to web platforms and products. I’ve reblogged Dave’s comment below followed by my response.
Google Wave is essentially already open sourced, and that was the intent from day one. As I wrote elsewhere: This is a new...
Death by PowerPoint
Absolutely love it. A must read for anyone who presents just about anything.
Death by PowerPoint
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“Did CNN really turn a move to potentially send thousands of Americans to die in...”
– David Sirota: Some Simple Questions After Obama’s Afghanistan War Speech (via bijan)
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Looking beyond what is to what could be
With the release of Google Wave, Google has unleashed the beast - a new communication paradigm with ambitions to change the way people interact and communicate. The scale and scope of the innovative vision is simply awesome.
But let’s not confuse the vision of what could be with what currently is. Google Wave, as it stands today, is barely a beta product (and maybe more reasonably,...