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The Next White Whale
A week from now I’ll announce in this space an important project involving technology startup companies, which I feel are key to continued economic prosperity for the United States. This will be my...
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How Much is Enough?
So the phone rings at a big publishing company in New York. “How long is a book? ” asks the caller. “Well it varies from book to book and genre to genre,” explained the publishing company receptionist....
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Act Two: The Cringely Startup Tour Gets Back on the Road
Rested, rejuvenated, and — most important of all — replenished with good ideas, the Startup Tour is getting back on the road, revisiting the companies we saw last summer. That first visit set a...
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Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve
President Obama last night had dinner at John Doerr’s house in Silicon Valley and for some reason I wasn’t invited. I wish I had been. Can you imagine Obama making small talk with Steve Jobs? This is...
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The crowdfunding bubble of 2013
When President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act on April 5th, the era of crowdfunding began as individual investors everywhere were promised an opportunity to gain access to...
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The crowdfunding bubble of 2013 part 3 — how to make it successful
This is the third and final part of my series on crowdfunding. In part one we learned how important crowd funding can be for helping tech startups and the economy. In part two we worried about how...
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Accidental Empires, Chapter 12 — On the Beach
Given The Startup Channel this chapter on startups is very important. We also cover shareware and I want to point out that Buttonware founder Jim Knopf asked me to respect his pseudonym “Jim Button.”...
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Act Two: The Cringely Startup Tour Gets Back on the Road
Rested, rejuvenated, and — most important of all — replenished with good ideas, the Startup Tour is getting back on the road, revisiting the companies we saw last summer. That first visit set a...
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Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve
President Obama last night had dinner at John Doerr’s house in Silicon Valley and for some reason I wasn’t invited. I wish I had been. Can you imagine Obama making small talk with Steve Jobs? This is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The crowdfunding bubble of 2013
When President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act on April 5th, the era of crowdfunding began as individual investors everywhere were promised an opportunity to gain access to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The crowdfunding bubble of 2013 part 3 — how to make it successful
This is the third and final part of my series on crowdfunding. In part one we learned how important crowd funding can be for helping tech startups and the economy. In part two we worried about how...
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Accidental Empires, Chapter 12 — On the Beach
Given The Startup Channel this chapter on startups is very important. We also cover shareware and I want to point out that Buttonware founder Jim Knopf asked me to respect his pseudonym “Jim Button.”...
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COVID-19 will Kill a Ton of Startups (or So it Will Seem)
Yes, I’m still predicting-away, though the pandemic is having some impact on the direction in which this narrative is going. Today’s column on startups and venture capital, for example, wasn’t even on...
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Paul Graham’s Legacy
Last week there was a press release you might easily have missed. A Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) called OrangeDAO is cooperating with a small seed venture fund called Press Start Capital...
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What about the layoffs at Meta and Twitter? Elon is crazy! WTF???
I first arrived in Silicon Valley in 1977 — 45 years ago. I was 24 years old and had accepted a Stanford fellowship paying $2,575 for the academic year. My on-campus apartment rent was $175 per month...
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