From a profile on the New Yorker that I only just now had the ill-fated idea of reading: Andreessen is tomorrow’s advance man, routinely laying out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar. He views his acuity as a matter of careful observation […]

Da Hacker News: Pick an industry Ask someone in that industry what they use spreadsheets for Build something better Mi ricorda un’analisi di Ben Evans. Sosteneva che la minaccia principale all’esistenza di Office — in particolare PowerPoint e Excel: due software utilizzati per i compiti più disparati; c’è chi usa PowerPoint per mockup e chi usa Excel per […]

Om Malik: In the course of nearly two decades of closely following (and writing about) Silicon Valley, I have seen products and markets go through three distinct phases. The first is when there is a new idea, product, service, or technology dreamed up by a clever person or group of people. For a brief while, […]

L’ultimo numero di Forbes contiene un profilo dettagliato di David Karp, il ragazzo dietro Tumblr. Fra gli argomenti trattati come, direi finalmente, riuscire a rendere economicamente sostenibile il sito (non guadagna a sufficienza, non al momento): The company finished 2012 with $13 million in revenue; the hope in this “leap” year is that it’ll get […]