March 2012
3 posts
Yahoo proves that Silicon Valley is no different...
The technology industry is no different to the music and movie industries. We are holding onto archaic laws which are doing more harm than good. Patent law like Copyright law has become completely impractical in its current form.
Old patents made for cascaded windows and one click purchases are being infringed by nearly every startup and if the dinosaurs of the industry decided, they could kill...
Thoughts on early Zuckerberg
This interview was from 2005 when facebook was still in it’s infancy. Facebook had some momentum but not nearly enough for Mark to be convinced that he was building the 800 million user monster that they have today.
I know some of you have seen this interview before, but I just wanted to note something interesting here. Notice how humble and rather oblivious Mark was to...
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seriously mundane start-up ideas
Recently @adii from Woothemes wrote an interesting piece about the merits of starting a “run-of-the-mill” startup in response to Paul Graham’s “Frighteningly Ambitious start-up ideas” piece.
I’d like to argue that most great businesses have some origin in a really mundane “run-of-the-mill” startup idea.
“A complex system that works is...
November 2011
1 post
Dear Facebook, autoshare is bullshit.
Ever since Mark Zuck’ introduced the concept of passive/automatic sharing (marked by ‘read’ and ‘listening’ etc tags) I was concerned that it would be a bad idea, and after using it for more than a month I can confirm… it is indeed absolute bullshit.
In a world where information is currency, the kings are not those who share the most, but rather those who...
October 2011
3 posts
2 tags
Imminent group-buying collapse in SA
Introduction
Like a flash-flood it hit our shores, following the hype around the perceived success of Groupon in the States and spurred on by the low barrier to entry. Before we knew it we had close to 30 group buying businesses and more than ten aggregator sites just trying to make sense of all these the deals being generated. The market was well and truly saturated, but that was the least of...
August 2011
1 post
