Posts by Allen Cheung
What is there to Talk About Casual Games?
Most of the writing around video games focuses on PC and console gaming: these were the platforms that have been around for decades, which now enjoy devotees in their adult years who have the disposable income to spend. Apparently, someone…
The Abundance and Half-Life of Code
We live in the age of Code Abundance. It’s never been easier to write, run, and subsequently share a piece of code. The whole Github + software eating the world phenomenon of the past 5 years has increased both the…
The Modularization of Microsoft
All the interesting news coming out of Microsoft from their Build conference revolves around interoperation. Across desktop and mobile, they’re courting developers with initiatives – Visual Studio in OS X, Android apps running in Windows, cross-compilation of Objective-C – that ought…
Why Unicorns Exist
I just listened to an excellent, thought-provoking conversation hosted by the a16z podcast on Venture Capital and unicorn private companies: Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles – and Where Unicorns Come from It’s worth listening to the entire thing, especially the first…
Not Being Kind
I shared this awesome blog post by Andrew Bosworth (early Facebook employee, now a VP there) on Twitter: Be Kind The message to resonated with a lot of folks, and I was impressed by the frankness and humility in sharing…
The 10x Manager
I threw this out on Twitter: @StartupLJackson If a manager can get 2x out of a team of 10, that’s 10x right there. — Allen Cheung (@allenmhc) May 12, 2015 Despite how it sounds, I wasn’t being flippant, but…
