Like a number of you, I have been thinking about what will happen to Apple when Steve can no longer lead the company. That caused me to ponder the relationship between leading a company and having vision. Continue reading
Category Archives: about business
Am I the great grandfather of the Internet?
Here is maybe the reason I have not yet seen the Social Network. Continue reading
The American System of Greed: How the smart and greedy take advantage of the greedy who take advantage of the dumb and greedy
Here is the inside story on how Goldman Sachs Facebook deal will screw the people that screw the people Continue reading
Born to blast
I just came back from a three day trip to Silicon Valley. I rarely visit Silicon Valley ever since that day in April 1999 when I turned in my badge at Intel and drove to my new home in San Francisco. My primary reason for the trip was to see my dad who lives in … Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg smarter than I thought
I don’t know Zuckerberg and I have yet to see the movie. My sense of him was that he was rather unsophisticated in financial matters (and certainly legal ones). But now that I understand the “100 million dollar donation”, my opinion has changed. Continue reading
Intel secures its future (maybe)
I believe that security and protection of information is both an opportunity for Intel and by its absence a limitation to Intel and all the other computer companies. Continue reading
Built to Blast
The days of building a company to last may be over. Now we are building companies to blast. Continue reading
Facebook: Take the money and run!
I really enjoy Facebook. But actually what I really enjoy is interacting with my friends. I probably don’t really like the company Facebook that much. Continue reading
Andy Grove: Only half right
Andy wrote an article about job creation or the lack of said recently. I think Andy is totally right that f high tech start ups are not the answer to domestic job creation. Large scale job creation for high tech can only happen if there is local manufacturing and I do not see that in the world we now live in. But I was shocked that Andy, felt that taxing products that contained outside labor was a good idea. It is an awful idea in my opinion. Continue reading
Why companies fail to make transitions
So why can companies not make it through these transitions? It is pretty simple: They would have to take the lead in destroying their own business. Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 