joshuago’s business Bookmarks

Strategies to overcome obstacles to building a successful marketplace business: one which connects buyers and sellers in some niche.

An excellent and intriguing backgrounder on how Demand Media makes money from algorithmic determination of demand and low-cost content production.

The ability to deliver a persuasive elevator pitch and follow it up with a substantive presentation is the difference between a funded entrepreneur and those having coffee complaining that they’re out of cash. It’s a litmus test of how you will behave in front of customers, employees and investors.

Apple has every right to push around its customers and media “partners” in pursuit of its business goals. What should bother us is the media companies’ willingness to cede so much of their authority to a company that has demonstrated its willingness to abuse it.

An inspiring and believable account of how hyper-local news became profitable for one Texas company.

The iPad is Steve Jobs' final victory over the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak. Centralized power and control in the pursuit of perfection completely won out over distributed tinkering and decentralized power.

CPU of choice for mobile devices. Low licensing fee. Fungibility of processors between manufacturers. Closing performance gap with x86.

Normals make up far more than 99% of Internet users. They also stick around a lot longer and are far more loyal than early adopters.

Spending a little or spending a lot is a means, not an end. Choose the right strategy to win the market or you may end up going straight to purgatory. From Ben Horowitz, former CEO of Opsware, which sold to HP for $1.6B.

What we discovered, of course, was that innovation survived the death of its institutions. High tech companies didn't own innovation; the innovators did. News organizations don't own journalism: journalists do.