Bring Your Own Account

BYOD is about devices. Walk your iPhone or personal laptop into work and suddenly new things happen. The IT guy has to work about XYZ. And companies in the consumer world have a special way to invade. Bring Your Own

Bring Your Own Account

BYOD is about devices. Walk your iPhone or personal laptop into work and suddenly new things happen. The IT guy has to work about XYZ. And companies in the consumer world have a special way to invade. Bring Your Own

Perils of Mission-Driven

These days people want to start companies that don’t necessarily focus on making money, but rather on making change. Not a new thing really – The Girl Scouts? Salvation Army? Once upon a time they were social startups. Peter Drucker,

Perils of Mission-Driven

These days people want to start companies that don’t necessarily focus on making money, but rather on making change. Not a new thing really – The Girl Scouts? Salvation Army? Once upon a time they were social startups. Peter Drucker,

Now you know to short $MSFT

And start an iPad-excel-killer ASAP. Not sure Grid is it. Trello might be.

Now you know to short $MSFT

And start an iPad-excel-killer ASAP. Not sure Grid is it. Trello might be.

“Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have

“Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have

Book review: The Brain that Changes Itself

Amazing tales of how to change the brain through the training, learning, gadgets, and therapy. Of course you can watch our talk from Maker Faire and get the highlights: http://fora.tv/2013/09/21/brain_hacking The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from

Book review: The Brain that Changes Itself

Amazing tales of how to change the brain through the training, learning, gadgets, and therapy. Of course you can watch our talk from Maker Faire and get the highlights: http://fora.tv/2013/09/21/brain_hacking The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from

Review: Anki Drive

The robot cars unveiled by Tim Cook at WWDC in the fall wowed everyone. I missed the big demo. But my friends at Two Sigma invested a bunch of money in the company along the way (first money in!) and

Review: Anki Drive

The robot cars unveiled by Tim Cook at WWDC in the fall wowed everyone. I missed the big demo. But my friends at Two Sigma invested a bunch of money in the company along the way (first money in!) and

Great product details: Spotify edition

One of the early Spotify people told me what he thought made Spotify win. I remembered it today in Australia, trying Rdio. They have the feature here too. Press play on any song on your screen. The music pops on

Great product details: Spotify edition

One of the early Spotify people told me what he thought made Spotify win. I remembered it today in Australia, trying Rdio. They have the feature here too. Press play on any song on your screen. The music pops on

Book review: The Inner Game

Andrew Paulson himself (great entrepreneur and chess impresario) recommended this book by Dominic Lawson about the esoteric yet cool: chess world championship match of 1993 between the “animal” Kasparov and Nigel Short, the greatest recent Brit but ultimately a second

Book review: The Inner Game

Andrew Paulson himself (great entrepreneur and chess impresario) recommended this book by Dominic Lawson about the esoteric yet cool: chess world championship match of 1993 between the “animal” Kasparov and Nigel Short, the greatest recent Brit but ultimately a second

Q&A: How detailed a model should I show potential investors for my pre-seed startup?

Answer: None. Avoid any idiot who asks for one for they will never invest in your mobile ad-tech platform. Corollary: Brent Hoberman told me his dad’s (legendary investor) reaction to the LastMinute.com investment pitch. “Anyone who backs your business plan

Q&A: How detailed a model should I show potential investors for my pre-seed startup?

Answer: None. Avoid any idiot who asks for one for they will never invest in your mobile ad-tech platform. Corollary: Brent Hoberman told me his dad’s (legendary investor) reaction to the LastMinute.com investment pitch. “Anyone who backs your business plan

When to give up

The answer is not “never”. That’s the newbie die-hard answer. One answer is when you haven’t even begun to fight yet (eg not raised the first round) AND you are still hearing what you were hearing a year ago. That

When to give up

The answer is not “never”. That’s the newbie die-hard answer. One answer is when you haven’t even begun to fight yet (eg not raised the first round) AND you are still hearing what you were hearing a year ago. That