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