The Internet is for snacking

2013-09-14

Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…

The idea maze

2013-08-04

The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is…

Some thoughts on mobile

2013-06-01

People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people who run internet companies and they’ll…

Hardware startups

2013-04-30

For a long time, entrepreneurs and investors shied away from hardware. This seems to be changing. As Paul Graham says, there are many…

Technology predictions

2013-04-06

For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…

What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

2013-03-02

Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent examples include the PC, the web, blogs, and…