Category: Economics
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2022 Predictions
2022 Predictions I’m joining in on the predictions fun, and offering some of my predictions for 2022. I find predictions are most interesting if they have some objective measure associated with them to avoid the “this kind of happened” moment when looking back. I tried to provide predictions with some type of observable, measurable outcome…
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Rethinking the Tip Jar
I picked up some coffee the other day at Birch Coffee near our offices and encountered this tip jar (yes, I tipped for LOTR): Aside from this being a creative way to ask for tips, I am willing to bet that this tactic is more effective than a standard tip jar. Instead of asking explicitly…
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Creative Destruction
I’m reading The Master Switch by Tim Wu, which was recommended to me by Jerry Neumann (side note: Jerry recently produced an awesomely useful VC bot which tracks announced investments as they show up on vc sites). If you’re interested in the technology industry, you should definitely read it. It addresses some interesting themes that are essentially…
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Melting Ice Cubes: New vs. Old Media
I try to get involved in lots of conversations about the future of the media industry. Having worked initially in the music industry (content creation) and later in the emerging media business (content strategy), I spend a lot of time thinking about were people spend their time accessing information and consuming content, and I’m lucky…
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Five Predictions for 2011
I started to write a retrospective on 2010, but decided that we all lived through the year and there are some great photo essays that are much more interesting than my thoughts. Instead, I’m going to make five predictions on tech, social and digital media trends in 2011. 1. Exponential growth in the U.S. smartphone…
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The Mis-Application of Innovation
With all of the recent discussion about civil charges being brought by the SEC against Goldman Sachs, I got into a discussion with some friends about innovation, it’s development and its misuse by people who either don’t understand the technology they are using, know and do not care about the risks involved, or knowingly behave…
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Locking on Strategy: Apple & Twitter
I’ve been trying to identify a trend I’ve seen this week in my RSS feeds, told through the story of Apple changing rules on iPhone application analytics (Venture Beat), the much-discussed HTML5 vs. Adobe battle (I like this Scobleizer read which discusses it) and Twitter developing 3rd party applications for mobile applications and acquiring Tweetie…
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TFP & Emerging Technologies
I’m sure a lot of projects look like Google before the rubber hits the road. I think that the venture capital industry provides importnat value to the marketplace and I hope to see it investing and growing TFP-positive companies.
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The Startup Visa and David Ricardo
Allowing entrepreneurs into our country to start new businesses is good for everyone and it doesn’t threaten anyone. It’s only a net-positive benefit to GDP to have new value-generating firms in our country; I simply do not understand the counter argument.
Hi, my name is Christian. 