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Insight From Y Combinator: Don’t Worry About Scaling

July 14, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Some of this essay by Paul Graham is the usual patting-myself-on-the-back, rah, rah, rah VC self-promotion.  But I think many of us when struck by a business idea that may contain the seeds of brilliance have trouble seeing how to get from here to there.  We can imagine finding a few million to get started, [&hellip...

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Telcos Tip-Toeing Away From Wired Phone Service

July 7, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Forbes and others report that New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, is frothing over Verizon’s offer to Fire Island residents to replace their wired phone service with wireless for about the same cost.  On the face of it, this is a...

Custom Software: The Ultimate Use Case Has No Actors

July 3, 2013 • Business Models • • Comments (0)

Developing a software application is becoming so simple programmers can create an app for such a specific purpose that only a handful of users would want it.  Here’s a TechCrunch article that describes an app useful for people who want to locate their...

VCs Are Hot For Bitcoin

June 19, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Well, some of them are.  TechCrunch reports that a network of angel investors have raised $7 million in Bitcoin, and even invested $100,000 of it in an offshore (literally – it’s in international waters) startup incubator, BlueSeed.  The initial...

Aetna’s Carepass Opens a New Front in the Privacy War

June 18, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Insurance companies have an interest in their insureds’ health, and it’s a benign interest: they lose if you lose.  So it makes sense for Aetna to distribute an app , called Carepass, that helps their customers track their fitness goals and...

Getting Paid For Personal Data

May 21, 2013 • Business Models • • Comments (0)

I do not plan to read Jaron Lanier’s book, “Who Owns the Future?“, owing to its less than positive review in the Globe & Mail.  All the same, the premise that there are a range of business models that are getting a free ride on gratuitously...

MOOCs: Let’s Call It “Out-Teaching”

April 1, 2013 • Business Models • • Comments (0)

I was until recently a student at an Ivy League university, a circumstance I mention not because of any bragging rights but to show that I have some firsthand experience of the current enthusiasm for remote learning.  It’s unlikely you’ve missed this...

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