I wrote a book: Read Write Own
June 22, 2023
February 27, 2021
Doing old things better vs doing brand new things
October 19, 2020
Computers that can make commitments
January 26, 2020
Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies
January 17, 2020
January 08, 2019
Who will control the software that powers the Internet?
January 04, 2019
February 18, 2018
June 06, 2017
Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
May 27, 2017
How Aristotle Created the Computer
February 20, 2017
January 16, 2017
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology
August 18, 2016
April 02, 2016
March 13, 2016
February 21, 2016
Nine reasons screenshots are awesome
November 13, 2015
Lessons from the PC video game industry
October 31, 2015
Gordon Moore on self-driving cars
October 23, 2015
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony.
October 17, 2015
The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital
June 07, 2015
Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden
May 12, 2015
Proprietary services vs open protocols
April 12, 2015
"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"
March 13, 2015
February 01, 2015
Come for the tool, stay for the network
January 31, 2015
January 20, 2015
January 15, 2015
VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle
January 12, 2015
January 12, 2015
January 10, 2015
The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality
January 01, 2015
December 27, 2014
Two eras of the internet: pull and push
December 21, 2014
"The dawn of trustworthy computing"
December 11, 2014
December 06, 2014
"This business is like bird spotting"
December 01, 2014
"A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket"
November 19, 2014
November 14, 2014
"You actually have to remind yourself not to believe"
October 09, 2014
Some ideas for native bitcoin apps
October 04, 2014
August 15, 2014
"Bitcoin is the currency the internet deserves and needs"
August 13, 2014
As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels
August 03, 2014
Three levels of enthusiasm for technology
August 02, 2014
July 19, 2014
Software eats software development
April 13, 2014
April 07, 2014
March 25, 2014
March 15, 2014
March 14, 2014
Four categories of Bitcoin-related projects
March 13, 2014
If you asked people in 1989...
March 12, 2014
December 31, 2013
December 12, 2013
Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding
September 28, 2013
September 14, 2013
August 04, 2013
June 01, 2013
April 30, 2013
April 06, 2013
“PCs are going to be like trucks”
February 26, 2013
February 12, 2013
The computing deployment phase
February 09, 2013
January 20, 2013
Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable
December 18, 2012
December 02, 2012
Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece
November 23, 2012
November 19, 2012
October 19, 2012
The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions
October 18, 2012
October 10, 2012
The rise of enterprise marketing
September 24, 2012
September 16, 2012
September 11, 2012
Notes on the acquisition process
September 10, 2012
The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed
September 03, 2012
August 15, 2012
Ten million users is the new one million users
August 03, 2012
July 24, 2012
Shoehorning startups into the VC model
July 19, 2012
Capabilities and sensibilities
July 17, 2012
How bundling benefits sellers and buyers
July 08, 2012
July 04, 2012
The real strategy behind tiered data plans
June 27, 2012
Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning
June 25, 2012
June 19, 2012
June 16, 2012
June 06, 2012
June 05, 2012
May 26, 2012
When should you give up on an idea?
May 24, 2012
May 21, 2012
The default state of a startup is failure
May 18, 2012
May 10, 2012
April 29, 2012
Incumbents die due to irrelevance or ineptitude
April 26, 2012
The risks of being a small investor in a private company
April 25, 2012
Outsource things you don’t care about
April 22, 2012
April 20, 2012
April 18, 2012
There are two ways to make large datasets useful
April 14, 2012
April 10, 2012
Facebook’s response to Yahoo’s patent lawsuit
April 03, 2012
Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds
April 02, 2012
Give away the diagnostic, sell the remedy
March 26, 2012
The myth of the overnight success
March 16, 2012
The problem with investing based on pattern recognition
March 06, 2012
Some tips for interacting with the press
March 01, 2012
Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
February 25, 2012
February 23, 2012
“It is the human friction that makes the sparks”
February 19, 2012
February 14, 2012
February 13, 2012
eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce
February 13, 2012
Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security
February 12, 2012
February 11, 2012
February 06, 2012
January 31, 2012
Chris Sacca on the implied user contract
January 23, 2012
January 22, 2012
Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise
January 05, 2012
Building products from improvised user behaviors
January 02, 2012
Recruiting programmers to your startup
December 29, 2011
What jobs are users hiring your product to perform?
December 21, 2011
December 20, 2011
December 19, 2011
Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high”
December 13, 2011
December 10, 2011
December 08, 2011
December 07, 2011
Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
December 06, 2011
Making industries “garage ready” for startups
December 05, 2011
Why is enterprise tech so far behind consumer tech? Because it can be.
December 04, 2011
The enterprise: buyers versus users
December 03, 2011
December 01, 2011
Business development: the Goldilocks principle
November 28, 2011
September 28, 2011
Summary of new patent bill (America Invents Act)
September 16, 2011
What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)
August 02, 2011
Pivoting into a new corporate structure
August 01, 2011
The downside of accelerated investment decisions
July 28, 2011
The tragedy of the anticommons
July 26, 2011
July 16, 2011
June 19, 2011
Allocation investing and the social premium
June 16, 2011
June 12, 2011
Notes on raising seed financing
June 09, 2011
May 16, 2011
May 12, 2011
Best practices for raising a VC round
May 04, 2011
There are two kinds of people in the world
April 26, 2011
Inferring intent on mobile devices
April 24, 2011
April 20, 2011
April 17, 2011
April 12, 2011
April 10, 2011
April 01, 2011
A few points about the “tech bubble” debate
March 27, 2011
March 24, 2011
SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
March 05, 2011
The importance of predictability for platform developers
February 21, 2011
Selling pickaxes during a gold rush
February 05, 2011
The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy
December 26, 2010
The interoperability of social networks
November 10, 2010
November 07, 2010
Instrumenting the offline world
October 29, 2010
You need to use social services to understand them
October 23, 2010
Online privacy: what’s at stake
October 21, 2010
October 07, 2010
The segmentation of the venture industry
September 26, 2010
Web services should be both federated and extensible
September 04, 2010
Howard Lindzon’s “Web is Dead” series
September 01, 2010
August 31, 2010
Good bizdev cannibalizes itself
August 28, 2010
August 21, 2010
July 22, 2010
June 26, 2010
June 19, 2010
June 14, 2010
Designing products for single and multiplayer modes
June 12, 2010
Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect
June 08, 2010
There are three New York Cities
June 04, 2010
Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up
May 08, 2010
Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted
May 02, 2010
The tradeoff between open and closed
April 25, 2010
Twitter and third-party Twitter developers
April 10, 2010
April 06, 2010
Size markets using narratives, not numbers
April 03, 2010
Capitalism just like Adam Smith pictured it
March 27, 2010
Stickiness is bad for business
March 25, 2010
March 14, 2010
The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing
March 11, 2010
News is a lousy business for Google too
March 07, 2010
A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars
February 19, 2010
Don’t be creative about the wrong things
February 16, 2010
Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
February 11, 2010
February 06, 2010
The NYC tech scene is exploding
February 01, 2010
January 30, 2010
Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC
January 29, 2010
January 28, 2010
January 26, 2010
January 23, 2010
January 22, 2010
January 17, 2010
January 12, 2010
January 09, 2010
Speculation on Apple’s purchase of Quattro Wireless
January 05, 2010
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
January 03, 2010
December 30, 2009
What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
December 28, 2009
Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices?
December 27, 2009
Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly
December 26, 2009
Anatomy of a bad search result
December 19, 2009
December 17, 2009
December 14, 2009
Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail?
December 08, 2009
December 05, 2009
December 01, 2009
The importance of institutional redundancy
November 20, 2009
November 14, 2009
November 09, 2009
How to select your angel investors
November 03, 2009
The most important question to ask before taking seed money
October 30, 2009
October 27, 2009
Obama: stock picker, or confidence builder?
October 23, 2009
October 23, 2009
October 22, 2009
The challenge of creating a new category
October 20, 2009
If Verizon’s Droid is good, that’s bad for the wireless ecosystem
October 18, 2009
Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity
October 17, 2009
What’s the relationship between cost and price?
October 16, 2009
What carries you up will also bring you down
October 13, 2009
October 11, 2009
October 10, 2009
The importance of asking people questions
October 06, 2009
The problem with online “local” businesses
October 02, 2009
Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS?
October 01, 2009
Why content sites are getting ripped off
September 29, 2009
Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing)
September 29, 2009
September 28, 2009
What if online business model innovation is slowing down?
September 28, 2009
Online advertising is all about purchasing intent
September 27, 2009
Yahoo should invest in products, not advertising
September 26, 2009
Software patents should be abolished
September 24, 2009
September 19, 2009
September 17, 2009
The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps
September 14, 2009
Entrepreneurs need to learn some law
September 13, 2009
Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out
September 12, 2009
Non-linearity of technology adoption
September 10, 2009
Getting a job in venture capital
September 08, 2009
Is now a good time to start a company?
September 07, 2009
The only college major that matters
September 06, 2009
September 05, 2009
Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products
September 04, 2009
September 04, 2009
New York City needs a tech startup blog
September 03, 2009
September 02, 2009
September 02, 2009
Information is the (other) currency of venture capital
September 01, 2009
New York City is poised for a tech revival
August 31, 2009
VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean
August 31, 2009
To make smarter systems, it’s all about the data
August 30, 2009
August 29, 2009
August 28, 2009
The one number you should know about your equity grant
August 27, 2009
August 27, 2009
Six strategies for overcoming “chicken and egg” problems
August 25, 2009
Dividing equity between founders
August 23, 2009
Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret
August 22, 2009
Options on early stage companies
August 17, 2009
Ideal first round funding terms
August 16, 2009
The problem with tranched VC investments
August 15, 2009
Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes
August 12, 2009
May 15, 2009
April 21, 2009
April 18, 2009