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Over the last decade or two, the supply of venture capital dollars has increased dramatically at the same time as the cost of building tech startups has sharply decreased. As a result, the balance of power between capital and startups has shifted dramatically. Some VCs understand this. The ones that do try to stand out by, [...]

Almost every startup has big companies ("incumbents") that are at some point potential acquirers or competitors. For internet startups that primarily means Google and Microsoft, and to a far lesser extent Yahoo and AOL. (And likely more and more Apple, Facebook and even Twitter?). The first thing to try to figure out is whether what you [...]

There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users - some people call them "normals" (@caterina suggested "muggles"). A lot of people call techies "early adopters" but I think this is a mistake: techies are only occasionally good predictors of which tech products [...]

I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the last decade are a set of systems that are sometimes called "collective knowledge systems". The most successful collective knowledge system is the combination of Google plus the web. Of course Google was originally intended to be just a search engine, [...]

Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale "cyber" attack. While I have no doubt that any particular organization can be compromised, what comforts me at the national level is the sheer diversity of our systems. We have - unintentionally - employed a very effective [...]