Back in August Marc Andreessen wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal explaining why Software is eating the world. His main observation was that the fastest growing companies in almost all industries are betting their future on software. He gave several examples of which the best two from a breadth of industry perspective [...]
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It seems that every other startup we see these days espouses lean principles. I’m not always sure that there is a thorough understanding of what that means though. Partly for this reason I recently wrote a post about how Path and Flipboard are seemingly abandoning lean startup principles which, combined with discussion in the [...] I’ve been at the excellent DLD Conference in Munich for the last couple of days and it’s been a lot of fun. Great content and great networking. My day to day work of making investments and working with portfolio companies is mostly focused on practical matters concerned with the here and now and it [...] The world is a-buzz this morning with discussion of Google’s new product “Search, plus Your World” which integrates personal content from Google+, Picasa and other places in with search results from the open web from Google’s main search service (only available on Google.com so far, official press release here). At one level this [...] Legendary VC Vinod Khosla has a guest post about the ‘Surprising Path of Artficial Intelligence’ up on Techcrunch today. It is a reminder of both the chequered history of computer smarts and the unrealised potential. The history is one of promises unfulfilled. Khosla quotes Google research chief Peter Norvig to sum it up: [Khosla] [...] I have just started reading The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida. It was first published in 2002, making it a pretty old book by the standards of today’s fast changing world, but the central idea is still powerful today, and it is new to me. Having read the title [...] I have just been looking at VentureWire’s recently unveiled FastTech50 list of innovative startups which they have put together ahead of their conference in November. The list was pulled together after reviewing ‘hundreds of startups in the VentureWire database’ and ‘about 2,000 nominations on Twitter’, and with the help of an advisory panel which [...] When Google surprised everyone and bought Motorola’s device business for $12.5bn back in August there was a lot of speculation as to their motives, but the consensus seemed to be that the portfolio of 17,000 patents was the principle attraction. It struck me as kind of crazy that we have a world where Google [...] The problem with closed systems like Apple’s where a single vendor looks to sell product at multiple different levels in the value chain is that pretty soon they end up with conflicts between the different levels and the product suffers as a result. It looks like this is playing out at Apple now [...] This Saturday I attended the Humanity+ conference in London which was packed full of incredible talks about the impact of technology on biology and what it might mean for medicine and human longevity (topics you might remember me covering when I wrote a series of posts on Kurzweil’s Singularity theory). The second presentation was [...] |
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