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The Opportunity in the Gap Between Mobile Hardware and Software
From my first computer, a TI99/4A to the PC clones we upgraded to every couple of years, the PC has tracked my life; getting more and more powerful, useful, and desired as I have gotten older. This...
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Freeing Drugs Data
On Thursday, GSK announced an effort to release to open up its clinical trial data sets to outside researchers, perhaps leading the pharma industry to join the Kaggle trend, in freeing data to get the...
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The Chaplin of Tech
From the WSJ Innovators of the Year feature, a curious analogy for Jack Dorsey, but the “efficiency of motion” theme is a helpful way to think about untangling complex systems: He’s considering Charlie...
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Disruption Everywhere
Marc Andreessen last week, as reported by the WSJ: “Now that we’ve wired up the world so thoroughly, we think that technology – the Internet and mobile technology – has a chance to impact a lot more...
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Lost in Translation
At the crossroads of American discovery and foreign language documents sits a vault of money: Common Sense Advisory, a research firm, estimates that thworldwide language-services business is worth $34...
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Spectrum In the Hands of Unreasonable Men
I have written before — on this site and elsewhere — about the sorry state of mobile broadband and how it threatens our entire innovation ecosystem. The FCC has the typical bureaucratic blindness to...
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Primary Care: Open For Business Longer
Competition works. Here is a great example. In response to the spread of retail health clinics (Walgreens/CVS) and urgent care centers which provide basic services, the American Academy of Family...
View ArticleThe Price of Insecurity
In the words of the Economist’s Schumpeter, this appears to be an enviable niche to occupy: Though lesser firms may be facing disruption, McKinsey dispenses a special sort of consultorial fairy-dust...
View ArticleBlame the Customer
In an article today, WSJ describes how Uber is killing it in black car service in New York. In that article is a classic example of the “blame the customer” mentality that marks why those competitors...
View ArticleThe Threat and Opportunity in Transparency
Low prices are very important, but they are not the only thing. Consumers also gravitate toward value and fairness, even if its at a higher cost. See Uber for example. The relative importance of...
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