Race and Silicon Valley has been in the news lately, especially after CNN used an out-of-context clip of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to promote a documentary on the subject. Lost in that gotcha moment was a more substantive discussion of the issues. Namely, is Silicon Valley a true meritocracy or does it have a...
If you’re celebrating Christmas, you’ve probably decorated your home for the holiday. But what about your website? Here’s a solution to bring some holiday cheer to your favorite Internet page – and it only takes a couple minutes to set up. Created by the independent developer Joseph Wilmer, this simple web app lets you...
Teri Evans A Gift For Tangle-Free Listening A Gift That Has All The Elements Social Networking Lessons of 2011 See Also: Are Great Entrepreneurs Born Or Made? This Guy Created Free Shipping Day, Which Brings In Nearly $1 Billion No, Entrepreneurs Like Steve Jobs Do Not ‘Create Jobs’ By Inventing Products Like The iPhone...
As I was drawing this one it occurred to me that if you look at nearly any piece of web terminology long enough, it starts to seem vaguely smutty. Sometimes it doesn’t take any contemplation at all; Facebook should feel downright embarrassed about pushing “frictionless sharing”. (No, I’m not drawing that one – at...
Imagine a new hot-dog selling venture. Let’s also say there’s only one supplier to purchase hot dogs from. Instead of simply charging a fixed price for hot dogs, that supplier demands the HIGHER of the following: $1 per hot dog sold OR $2 for every customer served OR 50 percent of all revenues for...
When we first invited Billy Chasen to join us on Founder Stories he was working hard to make his startup, Stickybits a success. Turns out it never took off. But like many founders, Chasen bounced back and found better luck elsewhere. In this case it’s with Turntable.fm – a platform where people play DJ online and share...
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Words can be tricky. My first post for GigaOM, where I introduce the foundation of everything I believe about cloud, elicited some excellent responses from the community. I made the case that cloud boils down to a very simple statement, at least for the enterprise: Cloud computing is an application-centric operations model. Most of...
Image: iTech-BB.com One of the most amazing entrepreneurs and executives in history. And a genius. But not a job creator. Henry Blodget A billionaire named Nick Hanauer recently wrote an editorial for Bloomberg in which he destroyed the argument that the jobs in America are created by rich entrepreneurs and investors. As both political...
