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John Perry Barlow on the transformational impact of always-on audio/video
In John Perry Barlow’s new blog, he describes how a left-open, zero-cost Voice-over-IP conversation with Joi Ito in Japan got him to think about the transformational impact of always-on audio/video. I fully agree: it really provides "tunnels" through the 3 dimensions of physical space, thereby making the world much more complex and more powerful. What…
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Death of e-mail?
It has become really fashionable lately to talk about the death of e-mail (even VCs do it, see here). Two major issues, at least in my mind, aren't typically being covered, however: the analogy with usenet, and the impact of market-dominant e-mail clients (aka "what Microsoft, Lotus, AOL and Yahoo could do about it"). This…
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First-hand account of the World Economic Forum meeting in Amman, Jordan, June 2003
Now I'm in Amman, where the World Economic Forum's global reconciliation summit is about to take place. The World Economic Forum is best known through its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and the typically associated anti-globalization protests. If you want to know how it looks like from the inside, read this. It is very different…
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Invited to speak to the World Economic Forum
I will on on the panel at the World Economic Forum's upcoming extraordinary annual meeting in Amman, Jordan, in a session on "Creating a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship". The background of the meeting is clearly the global topic of big role for such a transformation to be successful. I'm thrilled! How often does one…
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What to do with your startup’s first $30,300
Your startup company just got funded. You made it, right? Well, the work is only starting, and the first order of business is to determine where to spend money first, so you get the most bang for those bucks that were so hard to get. Should you hire developers, invest in a really nicely designed…