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What Publishers Just Don’t Get: Why Zite Wins
Publishers will never be able to establish successful mobile platforms. The Zite model of customized content will win. Why? Because publishers think editing means curating their own proprietary...
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Dave Berkus – Angel Video Interview Series
[This post is part of an on-going series of video interviews with members of the start-up community - see a list of links to the full series here.] To angels, Dave Berkus needs no introduction. Dave...
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Groupon is Still Radioactive
I am on the record on this one: Groupon is Radioactive. Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but I just don’t have a good feeling about this company. Today’s news does nothing to change my mind:...
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Lessons From the Start-Up Genome Project
Stanford & Berkeley entrepreneurship professor Steve Blank did an excellent write-up about the new report published by Startup Genome Project (report here; free registration required). I want to...
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Kick-Starting the Make Economy
Adrian Gonzalez, a third party logistics (3PL) expert and friend of ScratchPaper, has written an excellent follow-up piece to my post Why Angels Chase Electrons. In the piece (Entrepreneurs, 3PLs, and...
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It’s Official: Murdoch has Ruined the Wall Street Journal
I am appalled at how far the WSJ has sunk in recent years. The editorial and opinion section have always struck me as ludicrous, but that is just a matter of personal ideology, and it has always been...
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Crowdfunding: You Cannot Make This Stuff Up!
Follow-up on my Crowdfunding post. For a great truth-is-better-than-fiction story on the dark and crazy side of crowdfunding, check out the Bloomberg article “Crowdfunding and the Greatest Investment...
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AT&T Sucks Too
[New Update: The latest outrage is equally offensive: making you pay extra to use communication services like Apple's FaceTime over cellular (link). You are already paying for bits by the drink on a...
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Instagram’s Turn for a Face-Palm
Yep, we’ve stepped on the rake again. In what is becoming an almost weekly ritual, we’ve had yet another user revolt and PR fiasco because of revised user terms and conditions. Instagram’s turn this...
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Dave McClure – Angel Video Interview Series
[This post is part of an on-going series of video interviews with members of the start-up community - see a list of links to the full series here.] If you have seen Dave McClure do any public...
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Customer Crowdfunding: Not So Fast, Entrepreneurs
Wil Schroter is the co-founder and CEO of Fundable.com which is a crowdfunding platform for startups, so it is not entirely surprising that he would pen a very pro-crowdfunding piece in GigaOM...
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Recommended Links [Ed. 0019 / Internet & Social]
Latest selection of the best stuff I’ve seen lately across some of the ScratchPaper focus areas of Internet, IOT, Social Networking, Crowdsourcing, and Cybersecurity, including items on most popular...
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Advice to My 10 Year Old Regarding SnapChat Hack
SnapChat was recently hacked. 4.6M user account names and their associated phone numbers were accessed and published on the web and put on dozens of torrent and mirroring sites. Users will be exposed...
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Lessons From the Start-Up Genome Project
Stanford & Berkeley entrepreneurship professor Steve Blank did an excellent write-up about the new report published by Startup Genome Project (report here; free registration required). I want to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kick-Starting the Make Economy
Adrian Gonzalez, a third party logistics (3PL) expert and friend of ScratchPaper, has written an excellent follow-up piece to my post Why Angels Chase Electrons. In the piece (Entrepreneurs, 3PLs, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s Official: Murdoch has Ruined the Wall Street Journal
I am appalled at how far the WSJ has sunk in recent years. The editorial and opinion section have always struck me as ludicrous, but that is just a matter of personal ideology, and it has always been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crowdfunding: You Cannot Make This Stuff Up!
Follow-up on my Crowdfunding post. For a great truth-is-better-than-fiction story on the dark and crazy side of crowdfunding, check out the Bloomberg article “Crowdfunding and the Greatest Investment...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Customer Crowdfunding: Not So Fast, Entrepreneurs
Wil Schroter is the co-founder and CEO of Fundable.com which is a crowdfunding platform for startups, so it is not entirely surprising that he would pen a very pro-crowdfunding piece in GigaOM...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AT&T Sucks Too
[New Update: The latest outrage is equally offensive: making you pay extra to use communication services like Apple's FaceTime over cellular (link). You are already paying for bits by the drink on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Instagram’s Turn for a Face-Palm
Yep, we’ve stepped on the rake again. In what is becoming an almost weekly ritual, we’ve had yet another user revolt and PR fiasco because of revised user terms and conditions. Instagram’s turn this...
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