Incrementalism and The New New Thing

Sometimes my best thinking takes place in my garden where in the mindless routines of yard work I am free to meander through any range of topics and ideas. Last Saturday was just such a day. I wrote recently about VC loss of attraction in Web 2.0 and the thing that was frightening about that...

Venture Chronicles | more posts | 52 days | Tue., March 25, '08

Boostrapping a decentralized Twitter

Overnight Mike Arrington weighed in on the decentralized Twitter discussion. I'm glad he is getting involved, he's a smart guy and is now using Twitter as an integral part of his communication system. But I have to disagree with the way he characterized my thinking. I always work in bootstrapping...

Scripting News | more posts | 11 days | Mon., May 5, '08

Memo to the Semantic Web

Everyone on the panel was agreed in stressing the importance of building applications that solve real problems for real users. Neither users nor investors are particularly interested in being pitched with ‘the Semantic Web’ or ‘RDF’ or ‘triples’; they want applications and...

Venture Chronicles | more posts | 24 hours | Thu., May 15, '08

Fred Wilson on Bootstrapping

Fred's heart is in the right place. He puts money behind technology he likes. This is bootstrapping. Then he bothers the developers with features he needs. He's a bootstrapper and a hacker. Then Fred reads articles written by other people and listens to a Tim O'Reilly keynote and tries to get...

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Scripting News | more posts | 9 days | Wed., May 7, '08