Help, I’m Drowning in Feeds These days, whenever a VC asks me what problem needs to be solved, I refer to the issue of feed overload. There is too much data, coming in way too quickly. And other people agree. The problem is, I think this is a tough nut to crack. Most of my … Continue reading Help, I’m Drowning in Feeds

Back to the Future: The 20something CEO The WSJ is taking note of the Web 2.0 book with this piece on the return of the 20something CEO. There’s nothing particularly mindblowing about the piece, but there is an interesting tidbit about HBS halfway through: “Out of 880 Harvard Business School graduates in 2000, 44 enrolled … Continue reading Back to the Future: The 20something CEO

Design Is The New EntrepreneurshipIn this increasingly unbundled world, design is the new entrepreneurship. Specifically, in the old days, entrepreneurship depended on building a large team and infrastructure to handle manufacturing, operations, and sales. Today, especially with Internet businesses, these functions can all be outsourced, leaving design as the core competency of the entrepreneur. A … Continue reading Design Is The New Entrepreneurship

Mr. Frey, your 15 minutes are up Oprah finally rips into “Big Jim” for his fictional “memoir.”http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/oprah26.html It may not affect him now, but I’m sure there’s plenty of old Milli Vanilli albums out there that will testify to the long-term downside of being found out as a stinkin’ liar.

Why Reputation Isn’t ImportantRecently, NBA star Kobe Bryant attracted an incredible amount of attention for scoring 81 points in an NBA game, a total that was only exceeded once before by the legendary Wilt Chamberlain, back when NBA teams averaged about 25% more points per game. Even more incredibly, rather than congratulating him, some journalists … Continue reading Why Reputation Isn’t Important

Failure Is An Option Dave McClure has a touching tribute to his friend Jad Duwaik, an entrepreneur who died recently. As Dave points out, the irony is that one of the reasons Jad was well-known was for writing a gritty, honest piece called “Diary of a Failure” for the Chronicle. In it, Jad talks about … Continue reading Failure Is An Option

The Housing Bubble: The ATM Is ClosedWant another sign of the bursting bubble? Check out this chart of home equity borrowing. Here’s the post I took it from.

The Start of the Housing CorrectionI hate to say I told you so…oh wait, I love to say I told you so! The MSM (mainstream media) is finally admitting that the housing bubble has started to deflate. According to Dataquick, housing prices in Santa Clara County dropped in December (for the first time in years), … Continue reading The Start of the Housing Correction

Everything is a prototype “Try to view everything you’re doing, instead of being done and finished, as a prototype that is constantly in flux and changing, especially in the case of management.” –Bob Sutton Professor Sutton of Stanford has a great post about the need to look at life as a prototype that can be … Continue reading Everything is a prototype

Outsourcing ate my homework Apparently, enterprising but lazy CS students are turning to Rentacoder to complete their homework!