You need to use social services to understand them
I don’t know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can say with certainty that the Twitter…
Online privacy: what’s at stake
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press. With print newspapers…
Some thoughts on incumbents
Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that are loosely competitive to your startup…
The segmentation of the venture industry
Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model T. At the time, customers were seeking…
If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough
My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to…
Web services should be both federated and extensible
One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs. APIs provide a way to…