February 2011
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“The scenario under which the cable and telcos are the only survivors of the...”
– Preface to the new paperback edition of The Curse of the Mogul, by Columbia Business School Professors Jonathan Knee and Bruce Greenwald.
Not So Cursed? (Book Excerpt)
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“I conducted a [very unscientific] experiment yesterday. I had a day full of...”
– A valuable and interesting look at a day in the life of an NYC Foursquare user.
Also, I feel like a celebrity and am proud of the numerous n00b references.
looking up: #Checking In Marathon
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“Developers only want to do product, not coding. Business people only want to do...”
– Jon Steinberg, President, Buzzfeed, on a panel at Columbia Business School with Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures, about VC investing and startups
We have great alums.
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“Our philosophy is simple—when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple...”
– As long as consumers continue to snap up iPhones and iPads Jobs will keep pushing all his complementors. The other platforms just don’t have the same magnitude, so he has the edge.
The question is, at what point to do all the complementors decide Apple’s platform just isn’t worth...
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“The battle of devices has now become a war of ecosystems, where ecosystems...”
– Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest ‘burning platform’ memo? (update: it’s real!) — Engadget
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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your...”
– If there’s one thing that I find truly mind-boggling it’s astrophysics. Especially the basic quandary that, if the universe is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into?
As it turns out that gets discussed a fair amount, including recently at io9.
So here’s a new...