Posts tagged with Startups
Software Needs a Bigger Appetite
Software should be doing more. It’s now been a full 4 years of software gluttony, and indeed we’ve seen software play an important part in everything from taxis to restaurants to healthcare. There’s no area of our…
Working Harder is not a Good Career Strategy
Remember when a prominent and arrogant venture capitalist called out startup employees to basically stop whining and work harder? He was almost immediately rebuked by one of the subjects of his anecdote as hypocritical, that VCs have everything to gain…
At the Mercy of Platforms
When and how do you move off of someone else’s platform? I read a few articles recently that espoused the idea of small startups focusing on doing just one thing well, and not owning the entirety of the “stack.…
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…
Go to College
There is a curious rebellion against higher education. I get the sense that it's an overreaction, a correction to the unquestioned emphasis placed onto college over the past few decades. The millennial generation is no longer seeing the…
Everything is Bullshit
Pricenomics is a startup that has somehow stumbled upon a pair of business models: data crawling, and blogging about data from a consumer-centric perspective. The latter has a pop-culture economics bent; it's a technique taken straight from Freakonomics…
