Entrepreneurship and Timing

April 11, 2005

Brad Feld quotes Jeff Hawkins from his book “On Intelligence”: “One of the tricks of entrepreneurial success is that you must jump head first into a new field before it is one hundred percent clear you can be successful. Timing is important. If you jump too early, you struggle. If you wait until the uncertainty lifts, itÂ’s too late.”

Ajax: Promise or Hype?

QuirksBlog has a detailed discussion.

Corporate RSS Made Simple

Corporate RSS - Applied has some ideas “for corporate RSS feeds to external constituents including; your partners, your vendors, your customers, remote employees, etc. “

Emergence Effect

Kevin Werbach provides interesting summary of what we are seeing around us: “Something that gets me quite jazzed these days is the way so many innovations are linking up and leveraging one another. It’s not just, ‘hey, check out that cool company!’ Blogs, search-based innovations, tags, and so forth allow both new startups and established platforms like Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! to build on one another. The emergent whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”