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Apr 11, 2011

While I have a feeling that Larry Page won’t take any of my suggestions (darn), I am happy to see him come out swinging hard. What a welcome contrast to when Jerry Yang took over as CEO at Yahoo. Several [...]

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Apr 7, 2011

Tech’s history is somewhat reminiscent of the city of Troy, which when it was discovered was found to have many layers with newer ones built on top of the old ones. In tech as new layers get built the old [...]

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Apr 5, 2011

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Apr 4, 2011

In case you missed it, email services provider Epsilon had a massive security breach and a large number of email lists were exposed, including those of several large banks such as JP Morgan Chase and Citi. This is likely to [...]

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Apr 1, 2011

There is something frequently missed in thinking about the value of common shares in startups. These shares are actually options!The TheoryA common share in a startup has the same payout structure as a call option. There is a range of [...]

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Mar 30, 2011

One of the things that’s particularly difficult in being a startup board member is striking the right balance between supporting a founder CEO and listening to other people from the organization. It is possible to err on either side – [...]

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Mar 29, 2011

I have had the same minimal design on this blog for quite some time. But as I am committed to keeping Continuations going and writing more, I think the time has come for a complete overhaul of the design. I [...]

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Mar 28, 2011

I believe I have discovered an important reason why the government has a hard time making good use of the Internet: people who design systems for the government abhor messy data. They are used to setups in which every record [...]

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Mar 22, 2011

I wrote about innovation on Android yesterday and today there is already more reason to write about innovation in mobile. This time the news is decidedly mixed. On the plus side, Amazon has opened their Android App Store (despite Apple [...]

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