Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2023
The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on investors tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Avoid “insider deals.” Why would a stranger pick you out to make rich?
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 29, 2020
The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on investors tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Avoid “insider deals.” Why would a stranger pick you out to make rich?
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Steve Blank
JUNE 22, 2011
Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. The Internet May Liberate Us. The Internet May Kill Us.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 3, 2013
I’m super proud to announce that DataSift has just completed a $42 million financing round coming at the end of a year where its revenue grew several hundred percent year-over-year. Object Communications (now often called “the Internet of Things”). I stated that Twitter provided. Predictive Data. Augmented Data.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on entrepreneurs tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Avoid “insider deals.” Any mention of “offshore.”
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 30, 2011
The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on entrepreneurs tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Avoid “insider deals.” Any mention of “offshore.”
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.
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