To be successful as a surfboarder, you first need to go to the beach. Not just any beach but one with the right waves (it is too hard to make a wave although many people in business think they can). Then you have to fight your way out with all the little waves trying to … Continue reading
Author Archives: avram miller
Young Enough to be my grandson
Yesterday I had a two hour lunch with a young entrepreneur. While I am use to working with men and women young enough to be my children (like Simon and David the founders of http://www.heavy.com), this was the first time I can remember meeting with a CEO who was young enough to be my grandson. … Continue reading
Kissing Behavior
I know it is April Fools Day (it is also the first night of Passover and just 15 days to filling your taxes). But today, I learned something that really explains some kissing behavior. A male friend of mine evidently had the best kiss of his life from a lesbian friend. I heard that and … Continue reading
The 1849 Gold Rush and the Internet Bubble
Mike Hirshland sent me a story on Valley Wag about Industry Standard pre burst (that is post bubble). It is interesting and you can read it here. It caused me to reflect on another time in this history of the bay area, the 1949 Gold Rush. Here can read about that here if you do … Continue reading
The browser is the DOS of the Internet
Can it be true? Are the days of the browser numbered (I hope so). See the announcement by Adobe of Apollo. For me the browser is the DOS of the internet. It served a purpose but that purpose going away. There is no reason to have great web 2.0 applications sitting on top of an … Continue reading
Twitter Vision (give me a break)
A while back, Mike Hirshland (www.vcmike.com) asked me a small group of folks to try Twitter. I tried it for a few days. Mostly Mike and I exchange important information like when we were going to go out for coffee. I did learn that Mike goes to Starbucks which I avoid (I live in the … Continue reading
My first computer (the PDP-7 1966)
In 1966 when I was 21, I had a major career decision to make. My main choices were between being a poet (I actually wrote some pretty good poems), being a musician (but all buddies wanted to get stone and then practice while I wanted to practice and then get stoned), go to jail a … Continue reading
Paul Aster
Over the last several years I have been reading all books of Paul Aster. It has been a truly amazing experience. I am not a big reader of fiction and never have been although I think I have read some of the best over the years. But Aster’s work have had an amazing effect on … Continue reading
The End of Time and Space
Towards the end of 2005, I did an interview with Fast Company Magazine on the most important business idea for the next ten years. It was the tenth anniversary of that magazine. They asked ten people they had interviewed over the last ten years that question (presumably because they liked what we said in the … Continue reading
We all die twice
We all die twice. The first death is the one we all know. You stop. The lights go out. They pack you up and/or wrap you up and unless you are Anna Nicole Smith, your body is disposed of in a few days (I am not going to get into whether we have a soul, … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 