Samsung, you are amazing. Battling the Chinese and Nokia on the low end, you are holding share. Crushing your rival Android makers, you are toe-to-toe with Apple and outselling iPhone everywhere (in total and in most markets). You are the player to beat on non-iPads -- the one that anybody…
Chris Dixon rightly points out that lots of amazing phenomena have come up from nowhere, and are doing it faster -- Instagram grew faster than Twitter and OMGPOP faster than Instagram etc. And yes it's overlooked how bad it is for incumbents: It’s not clear this risk is priced into…
You should not try to keep your startup idea secret. You will look silly doing so *and* end up with worse ideas for lack of input. Longer version: Brad Feld http://www.feld.com/archives/2006/02/why-most-vcs-dont-sign-ndas.html Mark Suster https://bothsidesofthetable.com/on-ndas-and-confidentiality-dfa741ef58cb#.aaq3fk5pn Chris Dixon http://cdixon.org/2009/08/22/why-you-shouldnt-keep-your-startup-idea-secret/ Hacker News discussing it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779333
