This is a must read for MBA and VCs everywhere. Smart, humorous and insightful. The cynical entrepreneurs take on the effects of VC funding -- particularly the big money all entrepreneurs are supposed to dream of, is great.And the fact that it takes place...
I've been reading -- or actually listening to -- a lot of Cory Doctorow's work on the train and two short stories just had me entranced.The first is this one about a dystopian world where Google starts helping the NSA with search. Specifically search...
A small step into the work of ecommerce affiliate fun that you just can't do on wordpress.com. And a quick collection of interesting books. I can see this will have to make it's way to a library page when I get the time. For now...
Just came across this again haphazardly--or not so haphazardly if you consider that I was reading a feed of Clay's writings--and thought I would post it again. It is really a great piece of thinking: I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college,...
Where do you begin with this book. When books have great thoughts in them and I'm in a remembering mood I bend back the lower corners to be able to find whatever it was made you chuckle, or roll your eyes back and think, at...
How can everyone not love near future fiction? I've just finished Charles Stross' Halted State which is a great read on a whole host of levels -- from 10 year out science fiction with pervasive high bandwidth wifi, smart location services, vision-enhancing glasses with data...
Jeffrey Rayport is a HBS professor and was a board member of Organic back in 1999-2000. He has been both active in the industry and influential. No question as he states here that there is a "Marketing Confidence Gap" as we call it Ogilvy -- basically...
It is funny when you stumble across a book that immediate grabs you. I came across Snow Crash staying at a friends in Auckland, picked it up and didn't put it down until it was done. Here's the opening line: The Deliverator belongs to an elite order,...
