When Forrester CEO George Colony, thrashed Foursquare as nonsense, Fred Wilson posted his talk on his web site and commented that “it shows he doesn’t use the product and has no idea what they are about and where they are headed”, when I asked him about his take on Mr. Colony’s view.
However, Mr. Colony might have a point, although he was unnecessarily harsh making it. After several months spending time on Foursquare, I sadly realized that I can get better value out of other web sites.
In her interview with Fred Wilson, Carlota Perez, who inspired him greatly in forming his investment strategy, talks about five technological revolutions:
1) The Industrial Revolution (Machines and Canals)
2) Railways and The Steam Engine
3) Heavy Engineering using Cheap Steal
4) The Automobile, The Assembly Line and Mass Production of Electrical Appliances
5) The Information Revolution
On October 4 2011, with the introduction of Siri in iPhone 4S, a new technological revolution has begun:
Ne zamandır üniversite öğrencileri ile bir tanışma toplantısı yapmak istiyordum ama hep erteliyordum. Bir dönüp baktım ki, dört yıldır erteliyorum. Yuh. Bu işi ilk yapmayı düşündüğüm zaman üniversiteye başlayanlar mezun oldu olacak. Bu ayıbımı artık temizleme zamanı geldi.
18 Ekim saat 15:45’de, İTÜ ARI 2 A Blok toplantı salonunda tanışma toplantımızı düzenliyoruz.
I ran into a question at StackExchange. It came from a founder of a B2B Internet startup, who is tired of following up with unqualified leads. He believes that the low barrier free trial his company is offering is the culprit for their low quality. As a solution, he is contemplating asking for credit card information before the beginning of the free trial and automatically charging his users when the trial ends. He is asking the SE community if this is a good idea.
For people who glance at blog posts for 10 seconds and move on to the next one: The Star Trek secret to happiness in life is to never let McCoy to the bridge.
What the heck does that mean? Interested? Good. Read on.
He refuses to interact with a computer.
To put things in perspective, every member of the family owns at least one computer and presented the advantages of owning one to him repeatedly. He never even touched a computer and seemed genuinely offended by the presence of one. Even at the (quite modern) hospital where he worked as the pharmacist, he refused to touch the computer and made his assistant do the work. He took his principle to extremes when he made the janitor use the computer while the assistant was on vacation. In an audit, the inspector asked him to produce a report but neither the assistant nor the janitor was around. One can only imagine his predicament. To this day, he claims that he randomly pressed a button on the computer and the report started printing.
