A historical collection of our writing.
Yesterday was an impressive day in tech news. Here are three announcements that caught my attention: I believe that each of these is important in their own right (and they may make it into their own blog posts). But what is mostly on my mind is how much is changing and how quickly that change […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As I wrote last year, I am not a fan of the reasoning behind taking the Large Hadron Collider into operation. If you have followed this story, then you know that last fall, the attempt to start experiments failed with a meltdown of some magnets causing a significant delay. Then this summer, there […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In yesterday’s “Dealbook” column in the New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote that Goldman Sachs is headed for record bonuses and is thinking about making a $1B charitable contribution as a way to deflect criticism. That to me seems to fall far short of what they should do. First, a one-time […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
“Lesson number two: don’t get high on your own supply” — Elvira HancockAt betaworks we try to (over) simplify some key principles (no business development, for example) to operate our businesses, and look for inspiration for those ideas in disparate pockets.One of our key learnings is that while […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
We have a saying at betaworks – “no business development allowed.”Of course, it’s tongue in check and we don’t really mean it (well, maybe we do), but it represents the application of one of our core business scaling principles. Namely, find a way to scale usage of a service or application that […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
We recently wrote about our search for native mobile applications, which we defined as applications that simply were not possible previously (as opposed to making something that already exists online accessible via mobile). We have also long been interested in gameplay (Zynga and Heyzap) and in […] Read more
