News
/ Tue 26 Aug 2014
Why Uber could power our on-demand future
Back in June, I wrote about the widespread criticism of Uber’s $17 billion valuation. I pointed to the potential fo...
Mic Wright
News
/ Tue 19 Aug 2014
When the Crush is over: King shows the peril of a one product strategy
It may seem odd to point to a company which just reported second quarter revenues of $594 million as a cautionary exampl...
News
/ Tue 12 Aug 2014
Is originality in tech overrated?
The brilliant idea is prized above all else in Silicon Valley but the success of Berlin-based Rocket Internet highlights...
Need to Know
/ Tue 5 Aug 2014
What one Facebook employee’s review of Mark Zuckerberg can teach all of us
In the end, the titular wizard in the Wizard of Oz is revealed as a man behind a curtain pulling some levers, not a magi...
News
/ Tue 29 Jul 2014
Sharing isn’t caring: stop being fooled by collaborative consumption
Labelling companies such as AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit as “the sharing economy” is one of the finest and most decep...
Growth Strategy
/ Tue 22 Jul 2014
You can’t buy your way to coverage on tech sites
There’s an entire genre of blog posts dedicated to telling PR people how to do their jobs. Bemoaning bad practices in ...
News
/ Tue 15 Jul 2014
Microsoft’s mammoth memo shows how not to define your mission
To put a computer on every desk and in every home. It took Bill Gates 11 words to articulate Microsoft’s original mis...
Growth Strategy
/ Tue 8 Jul 2014
Tinder reminds us startup origin stories are rarely what they seem
The legal troubles at Tinder reveal more than a series of seriously unpleasant messages. Prior to former vice preside...
News
/ Tue 1 Jul 2014
Would Facebook make us so emotional if we could all make money from our data?
When did you last read Facebook’s terms of service Despite depositing huge amounts of personal information on the s...