A historical collection of our writing.
Now that the cost of servers and bandwidth has plummeted, office space tends to be the biggest expense following payroll for a lot of web startups. Here are some quick tips on what to do. You might also want to consider Chris Dixon’s fun list of things a startup needs in picking a location for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been carrying around a Nexus One for a couple of weeks (in addition to my somewhat nervous feeling Blackberry). There is a ton to like about the Nexus. It works fantastically well with all of Google’s services. The setup is a cinch – just sign in with your Google account and let the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am a huge fan of the Lean Startup philosophy (and Eric Ries / Steve Blank who have done so much to evangelize it). Recently, i have been thinking a lot about the relationship between this approach and network effects. For most web services, network effects are the key (only?) sustainable […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have worried on and off on this blog about the growing reach of Google. But yesterday I was thrilled to see Google take a determined stance on the issue of censorship and – by implication human rights – in China. I very much hope that the team there has the fortitude to stick to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
My partner Brad put up a great post on the USV blog yesterday, arguing for an independent invention defense against software patents. A while back, I had proposed an alternative, a change in how litigation works. In that post, I wrote that: I have since then changed my view of that. After a lot of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The demand for books, music, news, TV, phone calls is constrained by the time that people have. In a mature market (e.g., the US) that time is growing at best at the rate of population growth (low single digits), but in reality is likely to be shrinking as other online activities (e.g., social […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
