Venture Chronicles

If you are interested in why the job market (outside of Rails developers in Silicon Valley, but that’s another story) is so anemic then read this piece: He’s referring not to wages, but to regulation: He has no way of telling what new rules will go into effect when. His business, although it covers several [...]

French President kicked off the gathering in Paris, hailing the assembled players as the leaders of the “Internet revolution”, but warning that with their power comes great responsibility. He hailed the role of the Internet in helping protestors organise recent Arab uprisings such as the revolutions in Tunisia and  but insisted it must be underpinned by “values” [...]

Vendor Influencers, the New Category on the Block Yep there is definitely a redefinition of what it means to be an “analyst”. Gone are the days when analysts did hardcore research against markets and used that data to both define and predict the market direction, today an analyst is someone who has influence. I don’t [...]

Read this today: In 24 hours, Athar went from someone who jokes with friends on Twitter and invites people to his coffee shop to someone who broadcasts his thoughts to more than 86,000 followers. How did he become so influential so quickly? How does anyone? It takes the right piece of information at the right time, [...]