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May 9, 2011

As with the previous cycle, we are once again seeing the formation of many new incubators (Om has a post up which inspired my post). Having co-founded an incubator and having observed a bunch of others over the years, I [...] Read more

May 6, 2011

Despite their best efforts to screw up the Mac client, I still love Skype both as a consumer service and as an independent company. Back when eBay decided to spin out Skype to private investors instead of waiting and spinning [...] Read more

May 4, 2011

On Monday as I was reading reactions on the web about the successful raid on Osama bin laden’s compound, I kept coming across a quote “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in [...] Read more

May 3, 2011

I was thrilled to see that delicious has found a new home. Not only do I continue to actively use delicious nearly every day but having been involved intimately with its brief life as a separate company I have an [...] Read more

May 2, 2011

As a graduate student at MIT, I studied a bunch of econometrics and one of my favorite instructors was Prof. Jerry Hausman (he of the Hausman test). Prof. Hausman would find a way in every lecture to somehow include his [...] Read more

Apr 28, 2011

There were a lot of really interesting comments to my question about retail trends earlier this week. Thanks to all who contributed to the discussion. As I am thinking about how to organize all of these, I am reminded that [...] Read more

Apr 26, 2011

This Friday I will be meeting with some of the senior management from a major branded retail chain in the US to talk about how the web and mobile are impacting their business. In preparation, I am thinking about key [...] Read more

Apr 25, 2011

I am currently reading James Gleick’s “The Information,” which I highly recommend (more on that in a separate post). In it is a wonderful chapter on Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace, which makes it clear how amazing her insights into [...] Read more

Apr 13, 2011

I have always loved the videos illustrating orders of magnitude of scale. It simply seems a marvel that the world around us encompasses all these different scales. It turns out to also be a useful way to think about ability [...] Read more