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From Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle in today NYTimes: Innovation is an important new product or process, deployed on a large scale and having a significant impact on society and the economy, that can do a job "better, or cheaper, or both." Regrettably, we now use the term to describe almost anything. It can describe [...]

One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that at any moment you get an inside peek at startups at a variety of different stages. In the course of a few weeks, I might talk to people who are ideating around new business ideas, people raising [...]

One of the great unsolved questions in computer science is the P vs NP problem. It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems - if you solve one of them, you get $1 million and become really famous among mathematicians and computer scientists. In non-technical terms, I think of the heart of the P vs NP problem [...]

Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The programmer had just graduated from college and his impression of startups was shaped mostly by popular media. His main concern, he said, was: "What if we end up being the next MySpace instead of the next Facebook?". Of course, for [...]

Note: The company I cofounded, Hunch, was acquired by eBay in November 2011. I am now an eBay employee. But all the opinions expressed below are my own, and were developed prior to the Hunch acquisition, through my own research on e-commerce. Amazon and eBay are the two largest e-commerce companies. As of this writing, [...]

"Bedrock programming" is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing existing open-source or proprietary code. In my first programming job out of college our bosses told us to entirely rebuild our product. The person in charge of the networking layer decided the best [...]