Everyone knows about Yahoo’s patent suit against Facebook. The conspiracy theory In the Silicon Valley ecosystem, Facebook has far more to lose than Yahoo! has to gain. Line up the two sides fighting this battle – Facebook is NATO while Yahoo! has Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Hence the conspiracy theory – Facebook has a $100 billion… [Read more…]
November 19, 2011
Question recently posed on Twitter spurred a few thoughts: “Georgia start-ups need to grow outside of Georgia to build great companies and big valuations. Thoughts?” It’s not whether they need to grow, but whether Georgia-based start-ups are able to grow outside of Georgia. But where does this begin? Certainly not in local government, as the… [Read more…]
January 10, 2011
Interesting analysis on TechCrunch yesterday – “Can Google Get Its Mojo Back?“ It wasn’t too long ago that the world feared global domination from Microsoft, followed by the red hot years of Google, and now all the talk is about Facebook’s $50 billion valuation. That’s the beauty of it all – market players with innovation… [Read more…]
July 21, 2010
Interesting article on Wired today – 5 Things That Could Topple Facebook’s Empire. It’s fun and easy to create this lists – 5 things that…, 10 things that… – but thought-provoking nonetheless. Terms on a patent are 20 years, but businesses of the Facebook sort are difficult to make patentable, let alone enforce any legal… [Read more…]
November 26, 2009
Working from the in-laws basement this week and took a little retreat time to watch a few TED.com videos. If you want to get blown away by things like dialing cell phone by touching your fingers or seeing if you flight is on time by looking at your boarding pass, this is for you. (And… [Read more…]
October 4, 2009
Was fortunate to flip on the TV the morning to catch Alan Greenspan on “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos. Here are some key statements during the interview with some additional explanation in parenthesis that I’ve added. The economy loses skills with elongated unemployment (When workers are not working and keeping up with new technology, new… [Read more…]
March 1, 2009
In researching for an article under development, I found these outstanding video interviews with Milton Friedman, hosted by Richard Heffner on “The Open Mind.” This was a television series started back in 1956. Both interviews are approximately 30 minutes long. The first interview was conducted in 1975. Discussion topics focused on individual freedoms and the… [Read more…]
February 28, 2009
Heard this on the radio on Friday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A This is the reason that Milton Friedman won a Nobel Prize in Economics. Taped in 1979, think about the parallels that we’re hearing in today’s economic and political activity. Let’s stop with the talk about redistributing wealth as a means to solve our our personal economic… [Read more…]
November 14, 2008
This slideshare presentation developed by TheFunded.com audits the state of the venture capital capital. It’s a nice synopsis of a huge challenge – getting money to innovators. Whether venture capital industry is the answer doesn’t matter. What matters is that we continue to develop innovation as a pipeline to new technology leaps and healthier long… [Read more…]
September 4, 2008
With the launch of Google’s new browser – Chrome – I can’t help but consider one of the basic laws of market economics: Monopolies are good. Back in 1997, strategy+business published an interview with Paul Romer, a Stanford economist that has been a leader in the development of new growth theory. In the article, Romer… [Read more…]
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