The semi-(in)frequent musings of David Kaneda, maker of Boo.
Technology is embedded into everything now, no industry left untouched—there’s money to be made, new empires to be created!—and that process is long, slow, repetitive. Laying the groundwork and infrastructure to move a lot faster later. The thing is, though, this thinking is so small. Painfully small. A slice of a market segment of another slice of another slice and so on. It’s all perfectly reasonable, but it’s not enough.
A cautionary tale of what can (and often does) happen after a company takes it’s second round of financing. I have watched this happen several times, and can’t recommend this article enough for early to mid-stage entrepreneurs. For a more constructive take on the issue, I also recommend The Series B Trap and How to Avoid It (also from Pando, they’ve been killing it lately).
Very open and poignant article by Aza Raskin about his experience founding Massive Health. I have been considering a similar path lately, and hearing down-to-earth recounts like this is really eye-opening.