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Tim O’Reilly’s secret agenda

by pacifica/February 10, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Tim O’Reilly and the ETech program committee have done a service for the audience here that not all have appreciated: They called in the military. From robots that have seen combat, to complexity theorists who take military funding, from a […]

Best Pitch of the Day

by pacifica/February 9, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

A lot of investor conferences have audience votes for best pitch at the end of the show. That’s not part of the program here at ETech, but why should that stop me: The Due Diligence award for best pitch of […]

Shirky on Dean and social software

by pacifica/January 27, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

Letting computers substitute for human translators in alleviating mankind’s Tower of Babel is one of the most frequently hyped and recycled ‘futures’. But, after plugging away for 50 years, what’s been accomplished is rather modest. Market analysts predict that in […]

Hiring in Startups

by pacifica/January 21, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

I’ve been giving Ross Mayfield some grief of late, so time to balance by pointing out his excellent post on risks and needs of hiring in startups. I’ll mention one more thing to beware – what I call ‘hiring down’: […]

The Echo Chamber II

by pacifica/January 8, 2004May 19, 2019/Blog

A few posts back, I tossed off the phrase “…what you have is not a business, and not a product, but a feature. ” Which proved not so informative to the discussion as I might have hoped, since I had […]

The Social Limits of Social Software

by pacifica/December 24, 2003May 19, 2019/Blog

We have come to the end of a tumultuous year on the Internet and in real life, and it’s a good point to sum up what we’ve built and learned. There’s been plenty of self-congratulation as we went along, so […]

100 Years of Flight: A Lesson about Learning Curves

by pacifica/December 17, 2003May 19, 2019/Blog

Kevin Kelly excerpts from Bayles’ and Orland’s Art and Fear: The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded […]

Music Mid-market Musings

by pacifica/October 30, 2003May 19, 2019/Blog

(I’ve been promising this post on music business models seemingly forever, so time to deliver. I’d like to thank Kevin Laws, Kevin Kelly, Umair Haque, Roji, and the Armed Liberal for, variously, inspired conversation, informative posts, and provocative questions that […]

Of Attention Landscapes and Personal Media

by pacifica/October 24, 2003May 19, 2019/Blog

Apparently provoked by Weinberger’s blog on Shirky at PopTech, we seem to be having a reprise of the power law brouhaha, with A-lists and C-lists exposed and waving about. Meanwhile, Jarvis puts up a thoughtful post on blogs as personal […]

What’s Your Threat Business Model?

by pacifica/October 21, 2003May 19, 2019/Blog

I seem to be hitting on security stories this week. Via BoingBoing, here’s a screed from financial cryptographer Ian Grigg, decrying the obviously poorly thought out threat model behind the seemingly ubiquitous SSL protocol. (For those not into crypto jargon, […]

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Because we have founded and run start-ups, managed divisions of large companies, and run research labs; we understand what you need in the way of capital, strategy, and partnerships. We’re uniquely qualified to help you bridge the most significant gap encountered by an entrepreneur — the distance between a great idea and a lasting, successful business.

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