A historical collection of our writing.
Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about a heuristic for prioritization. If you took that approach to its extreme you would always work on only the lowest hanging fruit (at the time). That would of course be an over simplification for several reasons. First, for any but the most trivial projects there will […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn the comments to Valuation vs Ownership, Mike Nolan said: Just today I talked with an entrepreneur developing a SAAS in an educational space. His questioned focused on how to set up his first LLC and be prepared for funding rounds. As usual, I recommend reading past articles on AVC.com for a look […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
In the future we can’t have privacy for the same reason that the record labels and Hollywood can’t have DRM and that’s ultimately a good thing. DRM has proven a fool’s errand because it is not compatible with general purpose computing. At some point a song or movie has to be decrypted in order to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I wrote before that I am quite bullish on certain professional and niche personal applications of Google Glass but find the adoption strategy puzzling. Having just tried Glass for the first time I feel quite comfortable with both of these assessments which I had made prior to a first hand […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Contracts are necessary to doing business but surprisingly many people miss a central point about them: they define the starting point for future negotiations. Where you actually wind up as an outcome depends on both the contract and external factors that determine your bargaining power. Let me […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Startups are heavily resource constrained and so prioritization of what to work on becomes paramount. In today’s Tech Tuesday I want to share an important heuristic that many companies can benefit from. The point of departure for this the well known 80:20 rule, which for our purposes loosely states […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
