In this week’s TechFlash podcast, Todd Bishop asks me how I find the time to blog. I said that writing is how I develop a point of view, and that having a point of view is part of my job. It’s a bit like trapping a soccer ball. You’re taught to trap the ball dead… Read More
It all started at 9 a.m. on July 30, when Dave McClure launched his blog post declaring that venture capitalists are dinosaurs. Since then, TechCrunch has posted four televised smack-downs between venture capitalists and angel investors, wondered aloud if Silicon Valley’s disruptors are themselves about to get disrupted, and will undoubtedly cover a live debate… Read More
Much of today’s discussion around Google Instant, which returns search results and suggests query refinements as you type in a query, is about how the new technology will change search engine optimization and advertising economics. What I haven’t seen is a discussion of how it will change the most fundamental interaction on the web: between people… Read More
The New York Times’s Catherine Rampell might have been one of the first to notice that Silicon Valley’s magic isn’t creating an enormous number of jobs. Today’s front-page article cites Redfin’s endless demand for the world’s best engineers, but mostly it focuses on unemployed folks in markets like Corvallis, Oregon, the home of the Beaver and,… Read More
Sarah Lacy just wrote a fascinating TechCrunch post about the excess of candidates for Digg’s CEO position, which she attributed to new secondary markets for execs at companies like Zynga and Facebook to sell their stock, become those companies have gone public. That makes a little sense to me, but not a lot. What keeps… Read More