Systems software technology and business
I linked to this already, but it’s too good not to copy this para
In a sense, I feel like the shanzhai are brethren of the classic western notion of hacker-entrepreneurs, but with a distinctly Chinese twist to them. My personal favorite shanzhai story is of the chap who owns a house that I’m extraordinarily envious [...]
This is a brilliant idea.
Most innovation, well, isn’t: it is “unnovation,” or innovation that fails to create authentic, meaningful value. The biggest stumbling block to innovation is unnovation: most companies are too busy unnovating to ever learn how to truly innovate.
In the race to innovate, most organizations forget a simple but fundamental economic truth. A [...]
I have also learned something about my country. I run a global company, but I am a citizen of the U.S. I believe that a popular, thirty-year notion that the U.S. can evolve from being a technology and manufacturing leader to a service leader is just wrong. In the end, this philosophy transformed the financial [...]
Digital Equipment Corporation
Silicon Graphics Corporation
Sun Microsystems
One might get the impression that the boards of directors of technology companies have as much ability to intervene to stop suicidal business strategies as the boards of directors of Bear Stearns did.
But business is simple: you always have to look at the business model of the company and of [...]
From Wladawsky-Berger’s blog entry on Carlota Perez’s analysis in 2005:
She mentions three particular structural tensions that we need still to work out in order to move on: investments continue to be focused on short-term gain, not on long-term production and growth; the social system continues to foster an unstable environment in which the rich get [...]
Through all the bumps and strains in the broader economy, venture outlays kept up an almost eerily steady pace over the previous 21 months, ranging between $7.3 billion and $8 billion each quarter, from the start of 2007 to the third quarter of last year, according to the MoneyTree survey, which tracks venture-capital investments.
But in [...]
According to Forbes (thanks to Trevor Loy for the link)
The venture capital industry is staring at the most vicious shakeout in its history. Returns are pathetic for most funds, the public offering pipeline on which venture depends for its exit strategy is clamped shut, and with the shares of many big publicly traded tech companies [...]
Article in the New Yorker on Google contains a fascinating description of a product design meeting:
Page and Brin had wanted an upgrade of an existing product, and they were unhappy with what they were hearing from the engineers. At first, they were stonily silent, slid down in their chairs, and occasionally leaned over to [...]
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From the stunning website of Huhcorp. The sister site is even better.
Does your PHP network have double back-end XHTML redundancy? Is your [...]