Written by: Ken Segall More brains don’t necessarily lead to better ideas. When it came to leading meetings, Jobs had no qualms about tossing the least necessary person out of the room. This is our second excerpt from Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall, a close…

[Translations: French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish] The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the…

When we are passionate about something, it is sometimes hard for us to wrap our heads around why someone else might not be passionate about the same thing. You see this in the WordPress community often - fans and users of WordPress are often flabbergasted that someone might choose something else.…

January 21 2011by John Backus The purpose of this blog post is to help entrepreneurs avoid looking “canned” when they pitch VCs. Every entrepreneur is passionate about their business, and a pitch to a VC is an important moment in the life of most startups. I hope that this post helps entrepreneurs…

6 October 1999 Source: The Code Book, by Simon Singh, Doubleday, 1999; pp. 279-92. See related paper by James Ellis, GCHQ, "The Story of Non-Secret Encryption": http://jya.com/ellisdoc.htm and http://www.cesg.gov.uk/about/nsecret.htm See Ross Anderson question of the veracity of the GCHQ/CESG claims…