“PCs are going to be like trucks”
Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more…
The credentials trap
I talk a lot to people who are deciding between startups and established companies. They’re usually early in their careers and have been…
The computing deployment phase
Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent…
Samsung’s predicament
In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the leading non-iOS mobile device maker…
Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable
It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people will read it, and 2) you’ll end up…
The product lens
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the discussions use words like “valuations…