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 […]
Dell Going Private
(B) Probably one of the best comments that I have read about Dell going private is the Bloomberg interview of Edward Conard, a former private equity investor from Bain Capital. […]
Jeunes diplomès où trouver la securitè de l’emploi?
(B) The famous French newspaper “Le Monde” had an article quite characteristic of the European culture this weekend: “Jeunes diplomès où trouver la securitè de l’emploi?” – “Young graduates where […]
Seven Aspects of our Culture
(B) Do you remember “People Express” or the “HP Way”? I believe that they are still part of the basic case studies in business schools to learn about the value […]
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2013
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on CNBC. One of them is Byron Wien from the Blackstone […]
Tech Innovation in the 70s and 80s – Organizational Seeds for Innovation
(B) Foreword: I re-read and copied in the following article sections of a paper that I wrote a long time ago that analyzed the concepts for innovations in a tech […]
Tech Innovation in the 70s and 80s – What did IBM Miss?
(B) Foreword: I re-read and copied in the following article sections of a paper that I wrote a long time ago that analyzed the innovations that were not invented by […]
The Three Open Source Business Models – Open Source as a Tool (OST) as a Platform (OSP) and as a Business (OSB)
(B) FreeBSD, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python, Wikipedia, WordPress, Hadoop…the list goes on-and-on of projects that have been open sourced. In the 80s, software was about standards. Customers wanted standards […]
When Are We Going to Stop Using Coal to Produce Electricity?
(B) We had a piece of great and bad news this week. The good news first…The US Energy Information Administration has released a new report which concluded that the “U.S. carbon dioxide […]
Big Data – Parallel Programming – MapReduce and Hadoop
(T) One of the many challenges of providing cloud-based consumer Web services is first to invest in the required computing infrastructure, and second to maximize the ROI of that infrastructure. […]
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