The African Family
(B) “AFRICA IS A PARADOX. It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, and metals, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products…(but) any […]
The Mouse and the Mother of All Demos
(T) I had the opportunity to attend many events at SRI International in Menlo Park about the inventions and contributions of Doug Engelbart. Yesterday, Mr. Engelbart peacefully left us. According to the […]
Repair and Reform the Only Way to Growth
(B) Last week, Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled that the current Feds’ program of bond purchases of $85 billion a month (or QE – quantitative easing forever) will slow later this […]
Meet the Latest Wave of Mobile App Entrepreneurs
(T) A few inspiring videos from the latest wave of mobile app entrepreneurs. Four well-known apps. Four different stories…Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger “from Stanford to Start-up”, Pulse […]
The Forefront of Robotics
(T) Bloomberg TV has a great new documentary about three robotic companies in Boston, the epicenter of the robotics industry in the US. The documentary “starts at iRobot, the pioneering company […]
Better Place What Went Wrong?
(B) Being able to recover quickly from mistakes is key to survival for a start-up. A great vision is just the beginning of the story. And if the luck is […]
The Latest in Data Mining
(T) Data mining: it is so much used in our daily life that we do not even realize it! From how products are displayed at Costco, so that we buy […]
Start-Ups at Stanford BASES 150K Challenge
(B) I went yesterday to Stanford University’s BASES (Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students) for their 150k Challenge. And, I had a blast! One of my favorite moments was when I met […]
Lean In with Sheryl Sandberg Interviewed at the Computer History Museum by Eric Schmidt
(E) I went yesterday, with my Dearest Friend, at the Computer History Museum listening to Sheryl Sandberg interviewed by Eric Schmidt about Lean In. The event was sold out! And, I was part […]
Kleiner Perkins Adjusts Its Strategy
(B) The New York Times has a great analysis today of the famous venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that is worth reading: A Humbled Kleiner Perkins Adjusts its Strategy. The […]
BMC Going Private for $6.9B
(B) After Dell earlier this year, a second major LBO event for a technology firm: BMC Software, a provider of IT management software signed a definitive agreement to be acquired for […]
Investing Like David Swensen
(B) Most investors buy high and sell low when they should do the reverse. To be able to buy low and sell high, investors need to maintain contrarian positions during […]
Y Combinator W13 Demo Day
(B) Y Combinator had this week on Tuesday at the Computer History Museum, its long day event of demo presentations from its incubated Winter 2013 class. 47 start-ups presented this year compared […]
This Week the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center
(T) Tomorrow starts the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Over 20,000 attendees, programmers, artists, producers, designers, audio engineers are expected! A lot of fun talks, events […]
Investing Like Nassim Taleb
(B) By popular demand, and to help one of my best friends to better invest, I will be writing a few articles about great investors who inspired me. I am […]
Are Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Hot Again?
(T) Artificial intelligence, neural networks, quantum computing, bioinformatics…those are exciting fields for computer scientists. But while quantum computing and bioinformatics are still new, artificial intelligence and neural networks have been […]
Start-Up Village at South By Southwest 2013
(B) Every year, I am noticing a bigger crowd from Silicon Valley going to SXSW in Austin. Besides Le Web in December in Paris, this is probably becoming one of the most “must see” […]
Innovation Sandbox at RSA 2013
(B) For the last few years, the RSA Security Conference holds on Monday before the security conference starts, the Innovation Sandbox which showcases a number of emerging security technologies and start-ups. Last […]
The Latest in Cryptography
(T) One of my favorite keynotes at the RSA Security Conference is definitely the Cryptographers‘ Panel. The speakers at the panels are always the same – two of the three […]
I will Try to Make it Happen
(B) I like to say that there are three kinds of people in Silicon Valley. Those who love technology, those who want to make money, and those who want to […]
