Who should learn to program?

2012-01-31

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the tech world and beyond about getting more people to learn computer programming. I think this is a…

Chris Sacca on the implied user contract

2012-01-23

Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…

What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed

2012-01-23

Please see update at bottom Most websites spend massive amounts of time and money to get any of their pages index and ranked by Google’s…

Revenue vs margin

2012-01-22

Three years ago, Fred Wilson wrote a great blog post called When Talking About Business Models, Remember that Profits Equal Revenues Minus…

Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise

2012-01-05

In stark contrast to other major airlines, Southwest has been profitable for 40 years. If Southwest had one core “startup premise” it was…

Building products from improvised user behaviors

2012-01-02

For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared photos taken on old cameras that had…