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Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital
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The master moves to the cloud
Fact: data is moving en masse from PCs and enterprise networks to SaaS applications in the cloud. This trend will reshape the computing industry and change the very core of how we think about data and applications. For example, we now think about our pictures as stored on a PC or Mac, uploaded through a [...]
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Finding the best startup customers
Phil Libin (@plibin, CEO of Evernote), Alexei Erchak (CEO of Luminous Devices) and I did a session with the Boston chapter of the Founder Institute last night. Towards the end of the program we listened to several startup pitches. Every startup was tackling an important problem for a large audience and they all said something [...]
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Google Voice vs. Survey App
I think voice recognition, especially when combined with dynamic, data-driven systems is a Big Thing. That said, we have a long way to go as demonstrated by this slightly edited Google Voice transcript of its interaction with an automated survey app from a car dealer: We are calling on behalf of <dealer> to. Sorry I [...]
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The next reincarnation of cloud computing
Over Memorial Day weekend I wanted to play with CrunchBase data. I wrote a quick bash script that pulled data from CrunchBase and put it in MongoDB, one of the new databases from the NoSQL movement. In the process, I noticed I was programming file operations. It was a strange feeling. The last time I [...]
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iPhone economics, startup economics, angel investing economics
Tomi Ahonen has collected a lot of good data about the iPhone app ecosystem and applies solid analysis to reach the conclusion that, from an economic standpoint, on average, it is a waste of developers’ time to build iPhone apps. The data is good but the conclusion is dubious. This is a case study for [...]
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Repurchase agreements: what you should know before you sign
This is the second guest post from Dave Broadwin, head of the Emerging Enterpise Center at Foley Hoag LLP, in the area of founding agreements. Part one is on vesting and the other related posts are on improving the performance of founding teams, founder agreements and strategies for dealing with poorly performing co-founders. Back by [...]
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Platforms, Feds, Ads
In trying to write a focused post on the threat of government regulation Apple is facing, I didn’t mention an area I’m personally very interested in from the standpoint of Better Advertising: Apple’s restrictions regarding data collection. Section 3.3.9 of the Apple developer agreement prevents third party data collection from Apple mobile devices: The use [...]
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Does knowing C allow you to write more efficient programs?
In a thoughtful comment to my post analyzing Apple’s refusal to allow non-native apps–the ones built with Flash, .NET, any type of cross-compiler, etc.–on its devices, Andrew Martin argued: I would argue that knowing a “lower-level” high-level language like C would help a developer write more efficient programs (regardless of how efficiently the compilation occurs). [...]
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Apple vs. Adobe Flash
VentureBeat published an analysis I did of Steve Jobs’s Thoughts on Flash. As one would expect, the comments have been lively. Since I used to work at Macromedia, the creator of Flash, now part of Adobe, I wanted to share my broader perspective and biases in this matter: I am a proponent of Web architectures [...]
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Founder Agreements – Vesting, Vesting and more Vesting
Following my posts on improving the performance of founding teams, founder agreements and strategies for dealing with poorly performing co-founders, I continue to receive many emails at FastIgnite from entrepreneurs having difficulties with managing and formalizing the relationships with their co-founders. I reached out to my blogger friend Dave Broadwin, head of the Emerging Enterpise [...]
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