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Here are some more of the insights that we gained from our Sessions discussion...Michael Parekh makes the point that all peers are not created equal…“Another thing, the term peer to peer, one of the things that's implicit, unfortunately, is that [...]  Read more

Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week.Umair said: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that "What does an abundance of information create?" [...]  Read more

Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says,"if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they're very, very successful [...]  Read more

As we get a chance to go back through the transcript of Sessions, we are finding a number of themes that are worth highlighting. We will try to get these thoughts up on the site over the next week or [...]  Read more

One of the companies that we are invested in is working on reshaping a large and important industry with a new technology platform.The team that is building this company is first rate and has already built several very valuable companies [...]  Read more