Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
People that know me know that I am very particular about food, not just about restaurants (it’s service quality that matters more to me in a restaurant, assuming the food quality is on par for the price) but also food ingredients. I will go to considerable lengths to get the best meats, produce, cheeses, breads… [...]
The SEC fulfilled their obligation under the Frank-Dodd financial reform bill and defined what venture capital is. Represents itself to investors as being a venture capital fund. Only invests in equity securities of private operating companies to provide primarily operating or business expansion capital (not to buy out other investors), U.S. Treasury securities with a [...]
Freemium 101: converting free and trial customers to paying customers.
Paul Greenberg wrote a lengthy piece about his complex relationship with United Airlines and their potential for service downgrading as a result of the merger with Continental. But…I still fly United. I like to say that the reason I fly United is because I’m already so vested in the frequent flier program that I just [...]
Have you noticed that Google looks terribly stale when compared to Facebook? It’s not that Google’s products are weak by comparison but rather the simple fact that Facebook isn’t locked into paradigms imposed by having widely used products that reflect how earlier generations of users see them. More importantly Facebook has a distribution capability that [...]
I’ll save you the trouble of reading Krugman’s latest missive, which is little more than a retread of the arguments that Democrats always fall back on when they lose: 1) Democrats aren’t fighters. Puhleeeeze… this is an administration that has for the last two years demonized the auto industry, pharma and healthcare companies, oil & [...]
Danny Sullivan wrote up a piece on Foursquare that perfectly encapsulates the issue I have with Foursquare (and their ilk) these days… summed up as “really, who gives a shit?”. I have really made an effort to apply myself to FourSquare and have accumulated a handful of mayorships and a dozen badges in the process… [...]
One of my favorite services, Feedly, published on their blog the roadmap for their next major release. Obviously this is not a new practice and through various mechanism companies make available for comment their product development process. In recent years the evolution of “ideation” applications has provided companies of all types a powerful capability for [...]