June 2010
19 posts
Verizon Wireless Said to Start Offering IPhone in... →
This makes my post yesterday looks pretty smart. I full believe that the iPhone 4 will be on Verizon in January. Also my gut tells me that the phone will be both GSM and CDMA allowing it to roam for traveling.
I would like to get the new iPhone but the ATT service has been so bad for me that I am going to wait till January and see what happens.
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soupsoup:
I’ve heard the Verizon...
3+ Million Years
Apple announced that in the first 3 days of iPhone 4 that they sold 1.7 million phones. A even more incredible number is that those phones translate into well around 3.4 million years of contract phone service (40+ million months) for ATT, sold in just 3 days.
My gut tells me that ATT’s generous relaxing of the upgrade rules while at the same time increasing the cost to break the...
“The worst mistake I made, probably, was not being strong enough with investors....”
– Best And Worst Decisions – Paul Graham « Mark Fletcher’s Blog (via fred-wilson)
This should go in the how to be a entrepreneur handbook.
“Apple now boasts 150 million accounts and credit cards making one of, if not the...”
– Apple Introduces iPhone 4 and iOS 4 – First Take « GartenBlog
And to me this is the real power of the Apple platform, micro-transactions. While Android might have a growing number of Phones, Apple gives the developer the quick ability to monetize without the friction of a credit card. The...
The iPhone Jailbroken Market
I posted a interview of Jay Freeman today on the Voyces blog. Jay basically runs the “official” app store of jailbroken iPhones. What I found most incredible when I met with him is the size of the market for cracked phones, currently estimated at around 8 million. To put that in perspective that is around the same size as the number of Palm phones out there.
Anyway Jay is a...
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Dan Ariely's New Book
I am now half way through Dan Ariely’s new book, The Upside of Irrationality. His last book, Predictable Irrational is definitely one of my favorite business books, or for that matter one of my favorite books period.
Unlike most sequels Dan’s second book is better then the first one and I am only half way through it. Like his first book he proves out theories with real world...
“Last week Illumina Inc, the market leader (by number of units shipped) in gene...”
– Health Care Information Technology: Moore’s Law is so last century! The same test was: $350k in 2009 $650k in 2008 $3B in 2003 (via donnaromer) (via mikehudack) (via tedr)
F*CK you F*CKING BP*
I try to keep this blog mostly around entrepreneurial stuff and things that are personal but sort of tie into life as a entrepreneur.
But on this post I am going to digress. I can no longer watch the TV or read the articles about the Gulf. It has come to a point where it is just too upsetting. Seeing that smug prick CEO of BP testifying yesterday in front of congress put me over the edge.
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MyWare
As the cost of creating code and hosting continues to drop it has opened up a new market which I recently heard someone call MyWare. MyWare is basically software made for the user with little to no commercial intent. I love the name and even more I love the concept of it. It is basically like the software version of a custom suit.
One of the first examples that I saw of this was when Josh...
“Square seeks to build an amazingly beautiful experience; every pixel, piece of...”
– Taking Time — Square
This is a awesome way to look at your business and I have tons of respect for Jack. However I do have to say that the little plastic credit card reader is sort of a piece of shit IMHO.
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WatchStem Cell research is so important for so many reasons. Not only can you save and fix people but in doing so you lower the burden on the healthcare system and create a incredible export of technology that the US definitely needs.
In particular to me it is important because the doctors in this video are the same ones that are working on a stem cell cure for my son Oliver’s Galactosemia. In...
This is the way to pick em...
I met Fabrice Grinda at the MaiTai event. We were talking about all sorts of different interesting businesses. He told me that he has 9 criterias for picking the next thing that he goes into. The list is awesome and fortunately he blogged it because I could not remember all 9:
1. At least a $1 billion addressable market This criteria is inherently personal and depends on the entrepreneur’s...
WatchLast week I went to MaiTai, in Maui. It was a awesome event packed with professional kite boarders, VC’s and entrepreneurs. It was the best networking trip I have ever been on as it was the perfect balance of sport/social.
Check out the video that Kym from Forbes did on it, calling kiting the new golf, I hope she is right.
