Microsoft announced more layoffs today, and I was one of them. This was a total surprise to me, and management offered no explanation. This is pretty standard procedure, mostly for legal reasons, but none the less left me with a cold feeling...but only...

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An exec at a large European financial company recently told me his former CEO believed “Failure is not an option”. Great, I thought. This means they will do whatever it takes to succeed, try five or ten different approaches until it works, get the...

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Microsoft Bing announced a blockbuster deal with Twitter and Facebook that will bring Real Time streams of Tweets and Facebook updates to Bing’s decision engine. The big news is that Bing will apply ranking, relevance, authority sources, spam and porn..

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Ev Williams, CEO of Twitter, was interviewed by John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit. John focused his early questions on a revenue model for Twitter. Ev was fairly evasive and basically gave a very “Craig Newmark” style answer “We are focusing on the...

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The tech startup world is all about amazing new technology, innovation, and Intellectual Property (IP), things that create “barriers to entry” for other companies and give you a “sustainable competitive advantage”. Dharmesh Shah and Brian...

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