Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures. As a VC, he points out a consistent error made by entrepreneurs pitching their business plans: As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the
Read More...How not to say what you mean in business. Why some comedy writers aren’t laughing at Jay Leno. Speaking of Leno, I’ve seen this all over the place lately, making its way around the ‘tubes. Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK Jr. might have used Twitter. (“Who is Chuck Norris, and why is everyone tweeting about
Read More...Incredible visualization of Crayola’s colors from 1903 until today, created by Weather Sealed. All of you Edward Tufte fans should dig this. Crayola’s Law: “The number of hues doubles every 28 years.” (Via Neven Mrgan)
Read More...(Ed. note: Jim Prokes is one of MIPRO Consulting’s Managing Partners.) This deserves bluntness: 2009 wasn’t an easy year for many people. Painful decisions had to be made, jobs were lost, businesses were stagnated, and even though we managed to avoid outright panic, fear still governed us. And this is to say nothing of the
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani: Traditional telcos keep swearing they don’t just want to be a “dumb pipe”. It’s unfair but when you are standing next to Apple and Google, you better be running as hard and smart. Otherwise, you just have to accept dumb just looks dumber by the day. It’s getting harder to see ‘traditional’ (not
Read More...And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident,
Read More...Some hand-selected, web-sized reading for you today: Because it’s a sad topic that shouldn’t be avoided, The Big Picture has the best and most powerful photoessay on the crisis in Haiti I’ve seen yet. Disclaimer: some images are difficult to view. Here’s a simple portrait of John Lennon. Right? Master juggler Michael Moschen performs ‘The
Read More...My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted. She has identified the Kindle as a substitute for words printed on physical pages. I own
Read More...As usual, Schneier is among the clearest heads in the fray when it comes to threat analysis: Despite this, the proposed fixes focus on the details of the plot rather than the broad threat. We’re going to install full-body scanners, even though there are lots of ways to hide PETN — stuff it in a
Read More...Tim Bray on how so many are doing Enterprise IT wrong, most notably not learning anything from the dynamic language web culture and the small, light, simple, iterative mindset of modern web dev shops: Here’s a thought experiment: Suppose you asked one of the blue-suit solution providers to quote you on building Ravelry or Twitter
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