Don Dodge wrote an insightful post about venture returns, essentially arguing that venture capital is a bet between "risky and outrageously risky" investments. Its hard to argue with his points.
The facts are what they are, but there is something missing from this and I cant quite put my finger on it. Perhaps its the value [...]
Don Dodge wrote an insightful post about venture returns, essentially arguing that venture capital is a bet between "risky and outrageously risky" investments. Its hard to argue with his points.
The facts are what they are, but there is something missing from this and I cant quite put my finger on it. Perhaps its the value [...]
Ive been interested in the widely reported Duke Lacrosse rape case for a while now, but havent really been reading much of the ubiquitous press coverage. My primary source of information on this case has been coming from a blog written by a history professor from Brooklyn College. The blog is Durham-in-Wonderland and the professor [...]
Dan Fost writes a good piece about how entreprenuers are using shared office spaces and the local Starbucks to boot strap their businesses.
Malik, for instance, swears by his Starbucks. (He doesnt want to say where it is, for fear that publicists from the companies he covers will stake him out there and ruin the experience.) [...]
I made a speech last week at which I asserted it was faster to send a petabyte of data from San Francisco to Hong Kong by sailboat, than by the internet.
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I got quite a few "how can that possibly be true?" kinds of questions, so here's the math. (Full disclosure, I am a mathematician by training, which guarantees me
Starting from bolded letters in concert T-shirts, searchers quickly find sites [...]
Is there any official Google statement regarding that search result on
ones own site ought to be disallowed from indexing (e.g. via
robots.txt)?
and the questioner went on to mention that YouTubes search results were showing up in [...]
I like your new look.
I don't like your new strategy.
Here's why.
I think that, unfortunately, you have fundamentally misunderstood the economics of markets, networks, and communities - and so your strategy is deeply out of sync with the tectonic shifts in consumer behaviour which are reshaping the mediaverse.
The small world strategy - which is what you are employing - is a fundamental mismatch for the markets you are targeting. You are trying to solve problems that don't exist.
Let me offer you an existence proof, of sorts.
There is already a micro-community for almost everything under the sun.
Savile Row clothing? Ch
When you rip me off, you rip off everyone that could/would have participated in these conversations - you rip us all off.
I have been (very) lenient about this, but from now on, those who do rip bubblegen off will be dealt with much more unkindly than in the past.
This means especially you, analysts (except the nice ones :)
Why is it that, after 4-5 years of exploding profits, market power, value chain control, global domination, etc....
competition in the search space is left to Jimmy Wales...and not:
*Michael Eisner
*Sumner Redstone
*Alain Levy
*Insert random media CEO here
I'm only a grudging Jimmy Wales fan, but seen from a strategic point of view, this lack of competition has been nothing short of an economic perversion.
It boggles the mind that such an enormity of strategic imagination can actually coexist within the confines of a single industry.
NB - Yes, I know,
"...Avatars are the most undervalued asset on the web today"
Contrast Susie's laser-sharp insight with those that came out of Polaris' Digital Media Sessions - which are unfortunately almost corporobotically meaningless ("data, data, data").
Susie is, of course, right. The question is why. Susie says the answer is about emotional connection.
Controlling the emotional intensity of an industry is an incredibly powerful source of advantage in the post-network economy.
But that's a sma
