Startups 2.0: A Cambrian Moment
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Platforms: Something to stand on PROVIDING THE RIGHT platform is sometimes all it takes. Instead of planning new pedestrian plazas by the usual bureaucratic means, New York City’s department of transportation just marks an area on...
Building companies: Rocket machine WHY BOTHER WITH accelerators? Why not just hire a bunch of clever youngsters, provide them with the necessary cash, support and technology, and tell them to pursue a business idea with a proven suc...
Tech startups: A Cambrian moment ABOUT 540M YEARS ago something amazing happened on planet Earth: life forms began to multiply, leading to what is known as the “Cambrian explosion”. Until then sponges and other simple creatures ha...
The dark side: Founder’s blues A YEAR AGO Jody Sherman shot himself. His online shop, Ecomom, which sold eco-friendly and health products for children, was running out of cash. A few weeks later the business closed its virtual d...
Accelerators: Getting up to speed IT FEELS LIKE some prayer meeting. Two middle-aged men start by telling the audience how important it is to pitch in. A booming voice announces the acts, greeted by loud cheers; then some enthusias...
Creating a business: Testing, testing “WE EVEN HAD to host the servers in our own office.” Naval Ravikant laughs as he describes how in 1999 he and some friends founded his first startup, Epinions, a website for consumer reviews. They ...
Venture capitalists: From leafy to lofty TECH MONEYMEN LIKE altitude. In Silicon Valley the leading venture-capital firms cluster on a leafy hill overlooking Stanford University. And when Benchmark Capital opened a branch in San Francisco...
Hardware startups: Hacking Shenzhen OH NO, NOT another accelerator, you may think. But this one is different. On the tables are not just the obligatory laptops and smartphones but circuit boards, cables, screwdrivers and a few items ...
Business communities: All together now BLOCK 71 HAS long been slated for demolition. A look at the tenant list for the seven-storey industrial building on Singapore’s Ayer Rajah Crescent helps explain why it is still standing: nearly 10...