Policy Innovations

30/10/2014

Money to invested in backend technology and expanding operations.

22/10/2014

When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this sounds rather implausible. Perhaps the internet will spur a wave of internal migrations as online communit…

19/10/2014

What makes a good API?

A while ago I read the blog post Ranging Near and Far by Scott Sauyet. On Echo JS, Scott titled a link to this blog “Choosing simple APIs over …

19/10/2014

“You can’t preserve the culture, if you try to preserve it then you’re locking it into place, it starts to stagnate,” Libin said Costolo told him. Costolo explained that the CEO’s job is not to preserve the culture, it’s to evolve it intentionally in a certain direction.

It's lonely at the top and even CEOs need advice sometimes. At PandoMonthly Sarah Lacy asked Evernote's Phil Libin what he has learned from three of the more high profile CEOs he's mingled with -- ...

19/10/2014

The next layer of attractive profits will accrue to companies that build data-backed applications in which the data gets better the more people use the system. This is what I’ve called Web 2.0.

Nick Carr's difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart of Web 2.0 made me realize that I use the term network effects somewhat differently, and not in the simp…

19/10/2014

With platforms, you are not managing software; you are managing people.

19/10/2014

A company becomes the people it hires.

Last week at DEMO Mobile, Vinod Khosla came onstage to share his unique perspective on building startups, mobile, and more. We just put up the video of the entire discussion, which you can watch ab...

19/10/2014

A startup in the development stage needs to hire a very different type of person than does a growth company aiming for maturity. Here's how to match your next hire to your company's unique stage in the business life cycle.

19/10/2014

Don’t confuse the implementation challenges of your solution with the user’s problem to be solved. Your solution is just one of many. - JS

19/10/2014

The full discussion from Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit is now available for streaming. Watch Vanity Fair on The Scene: http://thescene.com Subscribe...

18/10/2014

But this reasoning misses the economic logic behind bundling: under assumptions that apply to most information-based businesses, bundling benefits buyers and sellers.

18/10/2014

Companies are increasingly treating the physical and virtual worlds as complements rather than alternatives.

PROGNOSTICATORS have a bad record when it comes to new technologies. Safety razors were supposed to produce a clean-shaven future. Cars were expected to take off and...