A historical collection of our writing.
I just woke up in Tokyo where Susan and I are visiting with our children (both as a vacation and as part of home schooling the kids). In the meantime the day is ending in the US but I still want to take the time to congratulate Chad Dickerson, Kristina Salen and the rest of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
“Photograph – all I’ve got is a photograph. But it’s not enough” Def Leppard Wikipedia tells us that the word “photograph” derives from the Greek words phos and graphê, together meaning “drawing with light.” I suppose that for a hundred or so years that general definition worked as a metaphor to […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I wrote a post not that long ago about how take rate (or rake) is one vector for disrupting incumbent marketplaces. Recently I have seen a number of startups that have taken this to its logical extreme: charge nothing at all. Several of these companies are growing very rapidly. But there is an […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been away for two weeks in Europe. The first skiing and the second meeting with startups in Berlin. As usual while traveling I took a break from blogging which I find helps me in a couple of ways. First, it frees up some more time for reading and I finished two interesting posts […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I was going to write about something else this morning but then I happened upon a video of President Obama saying yesterday that he should have closed Guantanamo Bay on day 1 of his presidency I have written here on Continuations in 2010 and in 2013 that I wish we had the courage to close […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have long been writing about climate change on Continuations. Mostly it has been about more evidence with the occasional call to action. Today is such a call if you live in London: Our portfolio companies AMEE and Twilio together with IBM, CapGemini and others are organizing an Environmental Data […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
