By a happy accident of history — mostly because Bill Gates and Paul Allen were born here and Jeff Bezos moved here to start a company — Seattle is now one of a small handful of global hubs for technology innovation.For both selfish and not-so-selfish reasons, I’d like it to stay that way, so I continue…
In the beginning was the banner ad. And the banner ad sucked. On the second day Amazon invented affiliate marketing, Google created AdWords and a brave new world of performance-based digital marketing was born. Stretching this allusion to the breaking point, it’s now roughly mid-week, and performance marketing has exploded into dozens of niches (many of them continue…
Every founder has one. That little clock inside your head telling you how much time you have before you run out of runway. If you’re still bootstrapping, maybe the metric is cash in the bank divided by your monthly living expenses. If you’ve raised outside money — especially if it has preference or automatic conversion continue…
The rumor mill is heating up on Amazon’s plans to enter the smartphone business — a fiercely competitive market currently dominated by Apple’s iPhone franchise and Google’s Android platform. Despite massive investments, Microsoft has so far failed to make inroads as a third platform, so Amazon will have to pull off some very impressive work continue…