There’s a really old but often revisited Guy Kawasaki post, The Top 10 Lies of Entrepreneurs (Jason Fried commented on it a while back, too). It does get tiresome having the same things repeated over and over again: how that purchase order is always just about to be signed, how you’ll need to get just [...]
Or some such title. Agree, sounds boring. But every day planes, trains and automobiles travel throughout Europe with a common cargo: nothing. Now, one could really get upset about the environmental impact of all that carbon but if you know me you know that that’s not my primary concern. What I do care about deeply [...]
Web 2.0 companies don’t make money (yet), says the FT in a somewhat yawn-worthy article.
Little mention of very savvy acquisitions like MySpace (despite troubles monetizing well, the site’s half a billion valuation was still a steal), Flickr and del.icio.us (both excellent and relatively cheap buys), as well as YouTube (pricy but on its way to [...]
One of the things I have been thinking about these last few years is that we are trying to make browsers do things that they were clearly not designed to do. The introduction of statefulness is an implicit yearning for thick, but connected, clients. The rise of Flex/Silverlight, of iTunes and Flock (holy cow, Fidelity [...]
Seatwave, the fan-to-fan ticket exchange started by Joe Cohen and seed-funded by Atlas Venture, is sponsoring the River Rat Pack Tour. From the 1st to 8th of June, a collection of nine of the hottest up and coming bands and artists take to the river sailing from Camden to Oxford and playing gigs along the [...]
jwz (original dev of Netscape Navigator) on backing up your failing backup drive:
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it.
Sound advice and a classic quote.
