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The idea maze 4 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is preordained. This neglects the years of toil that entrepreneurs ...
FiftyThree 18 Jun 2013 | 06:17 pm
Steve Jobs predicted that tablet computers would become so dominant that “PCs would become like trucks” – special-purpose industrial devices. Skeptics replied that tablets were only useful for consump...
Some thoughts on mobile 2 Jun 2013 | 06:52 am
- People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people who run internet companies and they’ll tell you that user behavior on tablets is far more similar...
Airware: An operating system for drones 15 May 2013 | 04:45 pm
I’m excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz, along with Google Ventures, is investing $10.7M in Airware, a startup that makes operating systems for flying robots, popularly known as drones. Drone...
Hardware startups 1 May 2013 | 08:43 am
For a long time, entrepreneurs and investors shied away from hardware. This seems to be changing. As Paul Graham says, there are many reasons for this: Hardware does well on crowdfunding sites. The sp...
Shapeways: Manufacturing in the Cloud 19 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
The Internet dramatically reduced the costs of a number of creative activities. For example, publishing written work used to require a large upfront investment. As a result, publishing was controlled ...
Technology predictions 7 Apr 2013 | 03:36 am
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what they got right and wrong. Back in the early 90s, a lot of peop...
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years 3 Mar 2013 | 08:59 am
Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent examples include the PC, the web, blogs, and most open source software. The fact that flip-flop wearing ho...
“PCs are going to be like trucks” 27 Feb 2013 | 05:14 am
Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and autom...
The credentials trap 13 Feb 2013 | 10:40 am
I talk a lot to people who are deciding between startups and established companies. They’re usually early in their careers and have been exclusively affiliated with well-known schools and companies. A...
