Why Competition Is So Bitter in SaaS: Oligopolies and Dominant Strategy Equilibriums
Perhaps the oddest thing about the Apple-Google “go thermonuclear” strategy to SaaS guys is that it is so odd at all. Competition-to-the-almost-death seems the norm in SaaS. Just look at Larry Ellison or Marc Benioff. You can see the blood lust in their eyes, in every speech, in a way you never really saw/see in […]

How Does the Web See You? Find Your Internet Persona.
The other day I was watching a movie of my life. Well, sort of. Courtesy of Peter Kim who pointed to this experiment by MIT PhD student Aaron Zinman, I got to peek into the process of how his algorithm analyses my digital footprint: Wow, a lot of old activity, and I’m really surprised […]

Special Immigration Policy for Startup Founders
Eric Ries over at Startup Lessons Learned has an interesting proposal on his blog about having a special immigration policy for alien immigrants to stay if they start a new company. Eric was recently at Government 2.0 where the proposal was made by Paul Graham. This raises some interesting questions about how immigrants and small […]