A historical collection of our writing.
There has been much debate in the last week over platforms, holes, products and ecosystems.All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Back then, one of AOL’s innovations was a publishing platform (Rainman – Remote Automated Information Manager) which allowed […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I was thinking this morning that one way to create a service of real value is to ensure that the way a user experiences that service is commensurate with the value you are trying to deliver to the user. Feels like a simple idea but harder in practice.For example, Foursquare. Stated mission: find […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
There is an amazing wealth of innovation around early stage venture financing, most of which developed in just the past few years.There are new models of creating companies out of innovation: Seed Camp, Y Combinator, Tech Stars are just three, all with different foci and core strengths.Then there […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
“Virality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning...and it’s harder to create virality than it is to create a good product. That’s why we often see good products with poor virality, and poor products with good virality. The reason that over $150 Billion is spent on US advertising […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
The technology industry has a seeming lack of institutional memory – the constant cycle of invention and reinvention while barely looking to the past. It’s so optimistic in nature.But we sometimes need to look to the past to sharpen our pattern recognition. We started betaworks by specifically […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
We all want to create or invest in platform businesses – those that enable other businesses or participants to add features, content, build other things into/onto the platform, extract associated but not directly related content therefrom, thereby creating infinite scale and value. And […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
