I find the quote below from Phil Sanderson fairly incredible - only 1 in 20 HBS MBA students use Twitter! Phil goes on to argue that...

It seems people on the street in Japan are buying gold, at least in part in anticipation of a Yen collapse. If they are right (and of...

This article is mainly about why "growth hacking" is nonsense but half way through, Josh Elman @joshelman is quoted. What he says...

The IRS has ruled bitcoin should be treated as property, not as currency, for tax purposes. That could be awkward, as the WSJ points...

Why 'waste' money conserving biodiversity? This is something i have genuinely been asked before. In short, we simply can't afford not to.

The thing I just don't get about this video clip is that neither the cyclist nor the pedestrian apologise to each other.

It strikes me...

Tomasz Tunguz @ttunguz has written another excellent piece about where VC funds are allocated.

As can be seen in the...

James Whatley's @Whatleydude "Five things on Friday" bit.ly/1ilaYcj is always a great read.

This week he had a National Geographic...

This article is about leadership and how to organise your time brought to mind a story I was told several years ago about Bill...

This article focuses on the need for change in the supermarket business. Toward the middle of the piece, Dan Mitchell draws attention...

This short post by Bill McNeely is one of the most inspiring things I have read in weeks.

In all the talk about business models and...

I was struck by a conversation started by Marc Andreesen on social systems that encourage negative behaviour.

He is entirely right,...

Slicktiger's marvellous, if very sweary, post on the hard work that is old school blogging. He points out two problems:

1. It's just...

This is a really interesting development. Using NFC or QR to settle a restaurant bill.

It could also work as a pre-order service for...

Nick Grossman wrote about the changing model of trust recently, pointing out that many new services (like eBay) establish trust by...

This post by Fred Wilson suggests that unregulated crowdfunding would be a good thing. The advantages are clear - it would be open up...

I remember being hugely excited about first using the JANET network when I was at college at the beginning of the 90s. I was able to send...

I came across this article via a tweet from Roelof Botha @roelofbotha . The thrust of the article is that multitasking and distractions...

One of Isaac Asimov’s 1964 predictions for how the world would look in 2014 was that “Mankind will suffer badly from the disease of...

This is a new term to me but the underlying common sense of Seth Klarman's comments is unarguable.

The trouble, of course is...

This article by Daniel Newman @danielnewmanUV made me think differently about the relationship between brands and content.

The...

Robert Cookson's @robert_cookson article in the FT is fascinating - it seems Chris Anderson's Long Tail is not happening for music...

The internet is just so fantastic. Just when you start taking it for granted you read an article like this...

The thought that a 13...

500px has entered the world of commercial photo licensing. They have launched 500px Prime which will give photographers 70% of revenue...

Adam Townsend has an intriguing take on curation; that if it were good enough, that is, if it were personalised to the recipient, it...

The "Microsoft's dead" theme is so old and yet the company is so profitable that it is easy to think the company has some way of walking...

This could be a great step forward for countries that do not have internet access. It would be an opportunity for millions of...

Whilst I have huge sympathy for the individuals that have suffered losses from the recent hacks, to focus on the flaws in Bitcoin or...

A few years ago, I wanted to persuade our board to invest in a disruptive printing technology - it was disruptive to their business...