2013-05-06
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Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine. krislane:
Stop. Just Stop. Honestly.
Yes.
(via krislane)
2012-11-25
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Venkatesh Rao, in part two of Entrepreneurs are the New Labor at Forbes, describing what he calls “hustlers”, non-technical co-founders of startups.
The series is a fascinating read, and strongly recommended (especially as, unlike so much writing about technology, it actually has a sense of historical perspective).
2012-11-07
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To my North American perspective, the whole UK tech and design scene has this uniquely British-feeling mixture of humour and the unexpected–playfulness, in other words—and that’s what immediately felt familiar to me when I read “Low Life.” That community seems deeply rooted not just in 2000 AD, but in Boys’ Own and Dan Dare, and other British visions of the future (versus, say, Star Trek) And BERG themselves were named by Warren Ellis, who is closely linked with that scene, after the British Experimental Rocketry Group in The Quatermass Experiment.
And of course, given a choice of ur-texts to inspire the scenius of creative technologists, I’ll take the Dan Dare and 2000 AD of Silicon Roundabout over the Atlas Fucking Shrugged of Silicon Valley any day of the week.
”2012-02-02
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Fifty years ago, the four most valuable U.S. companies employed an average of 430,000 people with an average market cap of $180 billion. This year, the four largest U.S. companies employ an average 120,000 people with an average market cap of $334 billion. The titans of 2011 have twice the the value of their 1964 counterparts with a quarter of the employees.
(via The Atlantic)
I’m not sure why people think the tech industry is a panacea for job creation. Wealth creation? Perhaps. Jobs? Not so much.
2011-06-14
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Courtney Boyd Myers: London’s Silicon Roundabout from a New York state of mind (via Dan W).
I should write more about the differences between UK and US mindsets, but this is definitely one thing I’ve noticed.
2011-03-16
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2011-02-09
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2010-12-15
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Bing’s new mall maps: Get in, get out, and avoid the crowds (via)
Well, that’s a crop of startups who’ve just run into one of the two gorillas of online maps. (I can’t imagine it’ll take Google long to do the same thing, either.)
