The days of building a company to last may be over. Now we are building companies to blast. Continue reading
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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
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The killer app for the Internet is dying
In 1994, I came to the conclusion that advertising would be the “killer app” for the Internet. After serving is purpose, I now believe it is dying. 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
Happy Memorial day! Would you like chicken or steak?
Please read this op-ed by Bob Herbert. I could not have said it better. Frankly, I think we deserve everything we are about to get but do our children and their children deserve it? If they survive and I really mean this question, they will hate us for what we did to their future by our shameful greed, neglect, ignorance and laziness. Continue reading
My first hacks
In those days, the telephone operators knew how much you deposited by the sounds of the different kinds of coins. So we recorded the sounds that were needed to make a 3 minute call to the USA from Paris. Then when the operator said (in French of course), deposit x number of Francs, we played back series of sounds. Continue reading
The Road Behind
There is an interesting review of Bill Gate’s pedictions from his book “The Road Ahead”. Bill Gates was never very good at seeing the technology future. Frankly, I was not impressed with his understanding of technology. And what I found scary was that he believed that he was a technology visionary. While I meet him … Continue reading
If I was seven year old now and had an iPad
Today, while my wife was having a tennis lesson, I waited for her in the car. During this time, I took another class on iTunes U on evolution via my iPad. When she came back, she noted how amazing it was that I could take a course along with actual Yale students. I agreed it was amazing. Then I began to think of my own youth and how I educated myself and how different it would be if I was seven years old now and had an iPad and access to the internet. Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 