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How to "visualize" the competition

By On August 21, 2010 · In Business Modeling, Startup

In a previous post, I mentioned how I am a big fan of Edward Tufte.  One of the best things coming out of the Tufte school of thought is that you should be able to visually represent complex systems on a single sheet of [...]

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The problem with pure "social"

By On June 30, 2010 · In regular, VC

Today, we saw the long-awaited announcement of FourSquare’s $20M round.  Whispered about and long in coming (well, not too long considering the company’s relative youth) my hat is off to the founders and their VCs.  The “traction” (to overuse a term) FourSquare has been able [...]

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The Real Housewives of Twitter

By On June 7, 2010 · In regular

At first, I was a twitter skeptic.  Who needs yet another way to communicate with people to whom I am “connected?”  But, over the last few months, I changed my mind.  Twitter, while a seemingly simple app, is not that [...]

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