Blackberry will not be making phones anymore. Today I read that BlackBerry is shuttering its hardware side of the business. Its future will be in software development. Here are some thoughts on Blackberry’s future. Past Popularity The mobile phone company from Canada, Blackberry, used to be the most popular business phone. When I took up […]
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If a fan uploads your music to YouTube
Imagine if you were a rock star. You write songs, perform songs, and sing on stage. You give concerts. You go on international tours and roadshows. People really love your songs, and some of them come up to you saying, “Your song changed my life. I was going through a hard time when I heard […]
Project Ara: 3 Lessons to Learn for Entrepreneurs
The modular pieces that could be swapped in the Project Ara mobile phone. Google just axed Project Ara. Just letting you know what happens in the end. But first …. The idea behind Project Ara You might not know what Project Ara was about. So let me tell you about it. Think about […]
Dispute the Patent, then Short the Stock
I was combing through WikiLeaks when I came across this article, shared in the e-mail archives of the Italian surveillance malware vendor, Hacking Team. The Hacking Team CEO, David Vincenzetti, shared a Wall St Journal article called “New Hedge Fund Strategy: Dispute the Patent, Short the Stock” in the e-mail. David’s comment at the top of […]
Why you need a vesting agreement from day 1
There was a CTO who worked for free at his friend’s startup. His name was Julian Ee. He was working “freelance” for a Singapore company. Then his friend asked him to join their startup as CTO, and become a shareholder. He didn’t really “work for free”, because he expected that he would be come a […]