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Hacking the University: Taking the Power Back
I’m pissed. One of my missions in life is to help make education more equal. Equal as in “more access for everyone” kinda equal. And then I come across stories like this one:The Subprime Student Loan Racket and this one: Video Professor Tries To Bully Washington Post, Fails and I get pissed. Pissed [...]
Continue reading...Content Publishers: I Have A Business Model For You
14. August 2009
OK, this is definitely a theory but part of me thinks it’s well worth exploring…and I’ve heard precious little about this to date. So two experiences this week plus this Fred Wilson blog post got me thinking that content publishers are looking in the entirely wrong place for their business model. They are looking at [...]
Continue reading...Authentic Value Creation: Why Tech Entrepreneurship Rocks
6. May 2009
Umair’s recent talk at the BRITE conference (embedded below) got me thinking this morning on the subject of authentic value creation. I think it’s a fascinating subject. The notion of authentic value creation is creating products and services that make the lives of those who consume better. Pretty basic huh? But [...]
Continue reading...Who will be The Pirate Bay of the finance industry?
18. April 2009
Umair has a great post up here: The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for….violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions. I followed up with a comment along the lines of the fact that the content owner industry (i.e. the MPAA and [...]
Continue reading...Girl Talk and The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free
11. March 2009
One of my favorite albums of the last year or two is Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals (sample their stuff for free on Lala or MySpace). I’ve probably listened to it 50 times in the last six months. As I posted in a reply to Chris Sacca on Twitter today, it’s pure audio [...]
Continue reading...The Edge
10. March 2009
I was just about to hit the hay tonight and I came across this video featuring an interview that Loic LeMeur did with Rob Kalin, the founder of Etsy) at the World Economic Forum a couple of months ago. In it there was a line that particularly stood out to me. In talking [...]
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30. November 2009
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