Micheal Jordan Playing Baseball

English: Chicago Bulls. Michael Jordan 1997 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Taking a Risk, and Hoping That Lightning Strikes Twice

Sean Parker .... “Every good entrepreneur I know ends up in the wasteland of being a venture capitalist. It’s really frustrating” ..... “How can you as an entrepreneur that’s had success, has a reputation, ever build the courage to go and do something again?” he asked, almost rhetorically. “Most entrepreneurs don’t remain entrepreneurs. It’s just too psychologically draining to have to constantly start over.” ..... the career trajectory of many tremendously successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley often looks like a rocket ship that stops in midair ...... “The list of people who have started from scratch over and over and succeeded systematically over a long period of time is incredibly short,” he said. “The only person I can think of off the cuff is Jobs who had Apple, Next, Pixar, continued doing Pixar and Next and then Apple again, which is really a different company.” ..... Peter Thiel ... Marc Andreessen ... surprisingly, Mr. Andreessen said of Mr. Parker’s theory: “I sort of agree with him.” ..... “You don’t want to be Michael Jordan playing baseball.” ..... Andreessen ... an entrepreneurial effort to “rethink the model of venture capital.” .... to Mr. Parker, most entrepreneurs who seek out investments do so as “a total cop-out.” He explained his thinking: “You have a whole portfolio, you only focus on your successes, you ignore your failures and you get to continue looking like a player, but you’re ultimately not in control of anything.” ..... “Everything is probabilistic, nothing is deterministic, so you never have that satisfaction of knowing that you’re in control of an outcome. So you spend all of your time managing your reputation, managing your relationships and you spend almost no time thinking creatively or doing the things that an entrepreneur is good at doing.” ..... Being worried about failure and its effect on one’s reputation, he said, is “very dangerous.”

I so desperately want AirTime to work for me. It keeps crashing. I could not even get it to work on Chrome. It worked on FireFox, but it still keeps crashing. Sean, this was not supposed to be baseball!

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Mobile And The Enterprise

Tim Cook, Apple COO, in january 2009, after Macworld Expo keynote. Picture by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

iOS Soars Ahead of Android

Development As Apple Quietly Makes Move Into The Enterprise Market
Apple now has an enterprise associate in every Apple store..... The interest in Windows is arguably as interesting as Apple’s gains. Could this be the new race between Apple and Microsoft?

Steve Jobs had disdain for the enterprise space. For him it was all about consumers. At one All Things D conference he basically called CIOs of big companies "assholes." And he was not using indirect language.

So it is interesting to see Apple is making a conscious effort to hit the enterprise space under Tim Cook.

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The iPhone 5 Will Be Larger

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I get the impression that will be its most distinguishing feature. But why 4.08 inches? Why not more? Why not 4.5? Beats me.

Analyst: iPhone 5, iPad Mini Coming In September

And the iPad mini is not 7 inches, it is closer to 8 inches.

I think Google has beat Apple on getting the inches right.

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Nexus 7: The Form Factor

Apple: In Good Hands

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Noted analyst shares predictions for next-generation iOS devices, MacBooks, iMacs

the heavily rumored smaller iPad will launch in late September, a follow-up to a next-generation iPhone launch earlier in that month..... Apple will be slimming down the 13-inch MacBook Pro this fall and adding a Retina Display to the machine

Looks like Tim Cook is doing just fine, and Steve Jobs built a company to last. This was no cult hovering around one person.

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Henry Ford Patenting The Car, Steve Jobs Patenting The PC

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Can you imagine? Granted Henry Ford was not the first guy to come up with a car, but I am playing to the popular imagination here.

There are some form factors that can not, should not be patented.

The PC Was A Category And Could Not Have Been Patented

If you think about it the designers at Nokia were light years ahead of Steve Jobs when it came to the idea of a smartphone, or a tablet.

This is a system gone berserk.

Apple seeks $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, offers half a cent per standard-essential patent

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Adding Disqus To My Blog Was The Easiest Thing

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Wow. Point and click.

The first time I installed Disqus it was still easy, but there were steps involved. You had to grab the code and go paste it in just the right place in your blog's template code. Not hard to do but I can imagine it being intimidating to those who don't know any code at all.

This time it was so so easy, as easy as clicking on a link at the Google search results page.

Wow. I am impressed.

disqus.com/admin/blogger

I promptly added it to all three of my blogs: Netizen, Barackface, and Democracy For Nepal.

Let the commenting begin!

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Should I Get Disqus For My Blog?

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I had it. I did not need convincing. And, Fred Wilson, my favorite blogger, was doing it. So. But then when I changed my template at Blogger.com where my blog is hosted (I am a Google fanboy) I did not bother adding Disqus again. I was not getting that many comments in the first place.

But now I am thinking about adding it again. Disqus is the leader of the pack. Noone does commenting better. And now that Disqus allows you to sign in with Facebook Connect, one major advantage Facebook Commenting had is no longer there.

I am strongly considering reinstalling Disqus at this blog.

I so appreciate blogs that have Disqus. Leaving comments is easy, and it is easy to track those comments should they generate replies. So if it works for me as a reader of other peoples' blogs, it perhaps will work for my readers.

The new and improved Disqus has really taken commenting at blogs to a whole new level. It was good enough originally but the new one is so much better. The little engine that could. Google is far behind in the arena and Facebook now no longer has obvious advantages in the space. And these are two companies that do not get accused of having become "Microsoft." I mean, they move pretty fast when it comes to innovation.

There is a lesson in there. If the intensity of your focus in the space is bigger than that of a big company, you will beat the big company.

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