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Should Startups Get "Patent Troll" Insurance? 22 May 2013 | 09:59 am
A patent lawsuit can be a deathblow to a startup - whether a patent troll or legitimate issue to be adjudicated, the cost is not only crippling but the uncertainty of outcome makes their business near...
Don't Mess Up Tumblr: Five Lessons Learned from YouTube 21 May 2013 | 07:36 am
When Google purchased YouTube there was lots of skepticism and outright derision. Today analysts estimate its enterprise value is approaching $20 billion. So I guess it all worked out, eh? Being one o...
Tech Conferences Are Destroying the World. But I Have A Solution. 19 May 2013 | 09:11 am
Tech conferences aren't about the content, it's about the conversation. The conversations in the lobby, the hallways, over meals, across seats. The ability to connect with large numbers of people in a...
Congrats! The Backslappy Nature of Social Media 16 May 2013 | 09:35 am
I'm a nice guy, right? I generally root for people to succeed, even in situations when I'm skeptical of their plans. And a pat on the back - of encouragement, or a job well done - I know that matters....
Don't Let a Minimum Viable Product Minimize Your Minimum Viable Vision 8 May 2013 | 10:21 am
Speaking today at a Wired conference in NYC, WarbyParker cofounder Neil Blumenthal prophesied that "you won't be able to hire talented people over the next 10 years unless you're a mission-driven comp...
Can You Really Trust A Cookie? 7 May 2013 | 08:52 pm
Is there a market in reverse engineering cookies in order to present a false identity to a website? Ecommerce sites routinely provide various discounts, and potentially even variable pricing, to indiv...
Could Your Username Be Used For Fraud Detection? 6 May 2013 | 07:29 am
If you go to just about any social website and search for user "hunter walk," there's a reasonable chance you'll find me. It just always seemed easiest to employ my real name and its uniqueness meant ...
Funding Kabuki (aka Creativity in Round Naming) 30 Apr 2013 | 10:30 am
In the last 48 hours I've seen funding solicitations for the following "Pre-A" financings: Advisory Round, Friends & Family, Seed Alpha, Seed Plus, Seed, Accelerator Round, Traction Round. And I'm pro...
These Three $50B+ Companies Should Be Fighting Over Foursquare 27 Apr 2013 | 08:50 pm
I've identified three companies each worth north of $50B who should be fighting over ownership of Foursquare. Apple, Facebook and Google? Nope. Visa ($110B), Mastercard ($66B) and American Express ($7...
Promoted Apps: Could Native Advertising Come to iOS App Store? 24 Apr 2013 | 11:38 am
The iOS app store will pass $20b annual runrate this year and yet app discovery is still terribly suboptimal. At first I thought it was merely product limitations that Apple would aggressively move to...
