A VC: Nations And Networks (Jun 27, 2010 Fred Wilson) I think we are just beginning to understand the power of these networks and what they can become. My partner Brad penned a very thoughtful post on the USV blog a few weeks ago talking a…

Competition is overrated cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog (June 26th, 2010 Chris Dixon) Suppose you have an idea for a startup, and then do some research only to discover there are already similar products on the market. You become disheart…

Facebook’s new global policy VP brings White House, online payments experience | VentureBeat (June 24, 2010 Kim-Mai Cutler) Her background, which several stints under Larry Summers both at the economic council and at Harvard University, is…

eBay founder Omidyar leads $5.5M for D.light’s solar lanterns | VentureBeat (June 24, 2010 Camille Ricketts) For example, the network invested in social news aggregator Digg, Second Life-maker Linden Lab, group-building site Meetup, and Ev…

A VC: A Big Victory For User Generated Content (Jun 24, 2010 Fred Wilson) Yesterday, Judge Louis Stanton of the Southern District Court here in NYC issued his opinion in the long standing legal battle between YouTube and Viacom. It was the…

AOL Sells DMS Insights, Keeps Piling Up Cash (Jun. 24, 2010, 10:05 AM) Tumblr was supposed to rival Twitter. It hasn't happened.But if AOL were to buy it, it wouldn't just be getting a blog platform, it'd be buying the ability to advertise…

Yes, The IPO Market Stinks - Is It Time To Move On? - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ (June 23, 2010, 7:07 PM ET Scott Austin) “What the venture industry needs to do is transition to the new reality,” said Jason Andris, managing director of…

Are you a micro-manager or can you delegate? - bijansabet.com (June 18, 2010 Bijan Sabet) 若いスタートアップではひとりの（複数の）創業者がすべての意思決定に関わることが通常であるし、必要である。戦略上の決定から、俗っぽい決定まで。 これを好…

What Twitter Must Learn From TechCrunch in Order to Thrive - The Steve Rubel Stream (Jun 1 2010 Steve Rubel) (This is a translated version of "The Steve Rubel Stream" blog post. Thanks to Steve Rubel.) 来月5周年を記念することになるのは、「…

One on One: Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (June 14, 2010, 6:14 pm Nick Bilton) (This is a part of translated version, of "Bits Blog" post. Thanks to Nick Bilton.) フレッド・ウィルソンは、ニューヨークのヴェン…

A VC: Parting Ways With A Founding Team Member (Jun 11, 2010 Fred Wilson) (This is a translated version of "A VC" blog post. Thanks to Fred Wilson.) アントレプレナーにとってもっともきついことのひとつは、共同創業者あるいは創業時のチーム・メ…

Andreessen on Why the Bay Area Still Rules - WSJ.com (JUNE 10, 2010 Pui-Wing Tam) WSJ: What other regions are bubbling up on the tech landscape? There's a lot of start-up ferment in New York, for example.Mr. Andreessen: There's a hotbed of…

Microsoft Looks to Broaden Search Role - WSJ.com (JUNE 10, 2010 Nick Wingfield and Jessica E. Vascellaro) マイクロソフトは検索エンジン「ビング」をAOLのインターネットポータルに採用するべく交渉にとりかかっている。合衆国内の検索のうち2％をわ…

The evolution of desktop applications - bijansabet.com (June 10, 2010 Bijan Sabet) わたしがはじめて使ったデスクトップ・アプリケーションは「マックドロウ」「マックライト」「ユードラ」だった。シンプルで、エレガントで、それらはあたかもわたしの…

Why Japan Matters: iPad Mania, Cloud Computing, And Social Intelligence (Jun 8, 2010 Marc Benioff) I’ve been living in Japan for the past three weeks and couldn’t miss the madness around the introduction of the iPad here. I couldn’t believ…

Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog (June 6th, 2010 Chris Dixon) アイフォーンを世に送り出したことでスティーヴ・ジョブズはビジネスの歴史においてとくべつな立場を達成した。すなわち、彼は…

Steve Jobs at D: A Master... - John Battelle's Searchblog (June 1, 2010 John Battelle) ほんとうにそう思う。90分近くにもなるインタヴューおよび観客からの質問のなかで、ジョブズが自分の流儀を通すのを見ながら、わたしはじっさい、こんな風に感じた…

What Newspapers Can Learn From Facebook and Mobile, how Google was the big loser in the FB Privacy Debate « blog maverick (Jun 3rd 2010 9:43AM Mark Cuban) In fact, the biggest loser in the Facebook privacy debate is not Facebook, it’s Goog…

Of Course Apple Is Going to Do Search. - John Battelle's Searchblog (June 2, 2010 John Battelle) Now, think of AppWorld. Where's the signal? Short answer is, we don't have one. Yet.The beauty of the link was that it became a proxy for enga…

AOL Isn't Negotiating A Search Deal, It's Negotiating A Sale To Microsoft (Jun. 4, 2010, 8:50 AM Nicholas Carlson) AOLは現在、グーグルに検索をアウトソースしているが、先週新たに検索にかんする契約交渉を始めたと、CEOティム・アームストロングが…

AOL Talks to Search Firms As Google Deal Nears End - WSJ.com (JUNE 4, 2010 Scott Morrison) アームストロング氏によると、AOLは現在ローカル・コンテント・サイトの開発を重点化しているが、同社の保有するソーシャル・ネットワーク「ビーボ」の買収に…

Google To Change Gmail, Add "Normal Email" Option Instead Of Just "Conversations" (Jun. 3, 2010, 3:25 PM Henry Blodget) 現状ではGメールは「会話」形式でEメールを表示させており、同一の題名のついた返信メールや追加送信メールはグループ化されて…

No, Seriously, Google, This Gmail Thing Is Really Pissing Me Off (Jun. 3, 2010, 11:44 AM Henry Blodget) Google's good at search. It's pathetic that it has taken a renewed challenge from Microsoft for Google to finally start innovating in s…

How Much Do Most People Really Care About Privacy? | Techdirt (Jun 2nd 2010 Mike Masnick) Josh Bernoff has a good post, focused mainly on Facebook's recent privacy PR flap, noting that most people really don't seem to care. That isn't to s…

Steve Jobs Muses on All Things Apple - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com Mr. Jobs also predicted that the ongoing shift in technology away from the PC and toward mobile devices will continue. But rather than disappear, the PC will become a niche pro…

Steve Jobs at D: A Master... - John Battelle's Searchblog (June 1, 2010 John Battelle) Watching Jobs work his way through nearly 90 minutes of interview and audience questions, I really felt, for the first time, a sense of how strongly the…

Is Steve Jobs Big Brother? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com (June 1, 2010, 9:00 PM Robert Wright) No wonder Jobs’s detractors have been making ironic reference to Apple’s famous 1984 Super Bowl ad, the one that implicitly cast the IBM-Micr…

Rebooting Prosperity in an Age of Austerity - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review (12:42 PM Thursday May 27, 2010 Umair Haque) 繁栄の再起動は10年代における巨大な試練である。これを実現するための正しい方法というものはない。だがこれに答えな…

House Increases Taxes On Venture Capital At A Time When More Investment In Innovation Is Needed | Techdirt 昨今わたしたちの金融システムには、さまざまな問題がたしかにあるし、プライヴェート・エクイティの領域にも数多くの問題点がある。だがヴェ…