Archive for the ‘Sci / Tech’ Category
Monday, February 15th, 2010
One of the little known facts of Apple’s history is that Apple wasn’t the creation of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Apple was actually founded by three guys: Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ron Wayne.
The equity split was Wozniak 45%, Jobs 45% and Wayne 10%.
Wozniak recalls, “Steve had 45 percent ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
One of the fundamental aspects of successful capitalism is the principal of creative destruction. In a capitalist system, businesses that are hampered with flawed business models, substandard management, unproductive labor or changing markets, among other things, pass away in a sometimes agonizing fit of destruction. New businesses, with a better ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
This post is available as a PDF file here: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/theystillcant.pdf
30 December 2009
In August of 2002 I endured a personal challenge. At the time, I was sitting on a bar stool at a friend’s house in my Iowa home town listening to a classmate prattle on about 9/11 and all of ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Seven months and seven days ago, I asked some friends and relatives for input on smartphones, specifically iPhone vs. Blackberry.
Not seeing any need to rush into this, I took my time before committing. I especially felt there was no need to rush into this since when you’ve been away for a ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is probably best known as the birthplace of the world wide web, CERN being the then employer of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML, the markup language used to create web pages. Less known, at least outside Europe and physics nerd circles, is that CERN is also home ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Exactly 40 years ago this second, one chapter ended and another began.
40 years ago, plopped down on the shag carpet of our basement family room, watching our round tube Curtis Mathis color television, I saw Neil Armstrong step down onto the surface of the moon.
I didn’t know it then, but ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Here’s a quick test for anyone who has sat in their cubicle and dreamed about starting their own business.
Read this short web page about a new technology: http://www.agilenano.com/technology.htm
What would you build with that technology? What are your product ideas?
My friend Scot Mortier, an assistant District Attorney suggested, “Interesting...so, applications from ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
To all those I know who are Apple-onians (or is it Apple-ites?) -
First, let me say that I think the iPhone is a very cool device. I may even end up with one. Soon.
But before I drink the Kool-Aid and join the cult, while I still have a teeny, weeny ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
One of the downsides of the insularity of the American culture and the self-enclosed European culture is its bounding effect on opportunity space thinking.
One example that is easy to illustrate is in technology. People in the post-development societies of western Europe and the U.S. live in a bandwidth rich environment. ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Legend has it that when Thomas Edison created his phonograph he conceived of it as a method to record and playback messages between individuals.
Legend also has it that Alexander Graham Bell envisioned the telephone as a device useful for transmitting musical performances from concert halls to people in other locations.
In each ...
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