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The Supreme Court handed down a bunch of rulings yesterday. The two that I find most interesting relate to patents and guns. Both rulings are disappointing, as I am against software patents and for stricter gun control. But they are also not as terrible as I feared they might be. As far as I can […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Paul Kedrosky has kicked off an interesting debate by suggesting we will see a ‘super-angel crash.’ […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
First time entrepreneurs who are just getting going frequently ask me about how to find angel investors. I usually tell them about my theory of “concentric circles” of angel investors. The gist of my theory is that each time you go further out from one circle to the next it gets 10x harder to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday, a judge granted YouTube’s Motion for Summary Judgment in the Viacom v. YouTube litigation. This is a major victory for all user generated content (UGC) companies because it strongly affirms the DMCA safe harbor. Congrats to David Drummond and the legal team at Google. Given that Google […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I complained about one pet peeve on Monday (stock certificates for startups) and can’t help myself with another one today: programs that complain about user inputs that are easily fixable. Yesterday I copied a bunch of email addresses from Jobscore and pasted them into the bcc field of an email in […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One of the key arguments for net neutrality is that it fosters independent and rapid innovation at both the transport and application layers. It is instructive to look at a different type of network to see what happens to innovation in the absence of net neutrality. Visa and Mastercard have built […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
