A historical collection of our writing.
I have been struggling to articulate why I feel quite so concerned about the economy but in a dinner conversation last night I had a kind of Eureka moment. It is now well understood that for at least two decades or so we had economic growth that was fueled (at least in the US) by […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One of the great promises of the Internet is that it provides for unprecedented access to data. Whether that is data on government or corporate activity or research results and intermediate measurements. By opening up that data so that entrepreneurs, developers, researchers can build on top of it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today on Tech Tuesday we are diving into Data Structures. The idea of a data structure that combines multiple attributes to describe a thing, goes back as far as the 1960s and possibly earlier. Both the COBOL and ALGOL programming languages already had this concept and IBM’s mainframe operating […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written about the topic of prioritization before, but maybe with a title that was too oblique – “Applying Engineering Business: Binding Constraints.” There I made the point that at any one time a startup tends to have only one binding constraint. It’s the problem the startup needs to solve […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today’s Feature Friday is not about a single feature but rather about initially prioritizing user engagement and growth over other features and in particular over discovery and analytics. The idea here is simple but still often ignored. If you have engaged users then their activity will generate […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There is a rumor that Amazon today will announce an Android based smartphone tomorrow. And despite repeated denials there is also a persistent rumor of a Facebook phone that might be Android based. In China there are already several custom phones based on Android, such as the one by Xiaomi. Some […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
