The Louisiana Purchase in Great Detail

In 1803 the Louisiana purchase doubled the size of the United States for $15,000,000 paid to France. The western boundary leaped from the Mississippi to the Pacific. More...

There Won’t be Vertical Search Engines!

“Vertical search engine” is an oxymoron.  Nevertheless, a new report from More...

The Search Bee

It  is obviously crucial that education adapt to change.  The search bee should replace the spelling bee.More...

The Flattening of Almost Everything #2: Information Retrieval

The WorldWideWeb is where Moore’s Law met Metcalfe’s Law.  Information management – the way we find out what we want to know – went from hierarchical to flat in just a few years More...

Venture Capital – An Entrepreneur’s View (continued)

For many entrepreneurs, there will be a right time for an investment by venture capitalists (VCs).  Here are some lessons I learned about when venture capital is the right answer More...

Venture Capital – An Entrepreneur’s View

For those of us who start a new company rather than look for a new job, it’s important to understand venture capital and venture capitalists.  One of the best ways to understand More...

The Flattening of Almost Everything #1: Organizations

We used to need hierarchies because we had only primitive communication and information processing capability.  Computers, electronic communication, and particularly the Internet More...

Complex Ecosystems and the End of the Dinosaurs

I have a theory about why the dinosaurs disappeared:  basically, it’s because they were too successful for too long.  I know a big com More...

Network Ad Lib – Wi-Fi and 1xEVDO

When we first moved to our house in rural Vermont, we couldn’t get broadband access in any of the ways we are used to.  Our house is behind a SLIC so no DSL.More...

How the Telecom Mega-Mergers Might Make Sense (but probably don’t)

Yesterday morning my friend Fred Wilson, super-VC and super-blogger (A VC, naturally), performed the difficult fea More...