Monthly Archives: March 2009
Relentlessly Hapless
Once again I find the need to repost a blog entry by Paul Graham and his recent rant about what it takes to be a good startup founder. I do this not just for the sake of my workshop participants, but also as part of my ongoing quest to reshape the economic mindset in Tampa.
I want my iTV?
Just about 14 years after the Bill Gates “Internet Tidal Wave” memo changed Microsoft’s direction on interactive media, the cable industry is back in the game with a new initiative to shape the next generation of developers and content providers. Although Microsoft never fully abandoned TV as a operating platform and continued to work with set-top-box manufacturers, “The Memo” killed Project Tiger (iTV) back in mid-1995 and most of the talent in Redmond was reassigned to take on Netscape and a bevy of other newly emerging threats to the Microsoft way of life.
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