YC winter 2013 demo
day: Five startups to watch: (1) Airware, a platform for drone software
that allows customers to manage small aircraft; (2) SimplyInsured, a
Kayak/Hipmunk-like service for small business owners to pick different
insurance plans; (3) Bitnami, app store for server software in corporations;
(4) Microyza, a crowdsourcing platform that allows individuals to contribute
money toward scientific research; (5) Watsi, a non-profit platform where
individuals can crowdfund medical treatment and surgeries for individuals.
[Note: Eh Oh for EHTH?]…Source: http://gigaom.com/2013/03/26/yc-winter-demo-day-five-startups-to-watch-morning-edition/
A Country Is Not a
Company: Author’s logic: (1) technically almost all country would be
insolvent if it was asked to pay all its debt using available assets; (2) debt
is essentially securitized by tax cash-flows; (3) you can’t repossess a
country. [Note: some good points but not necessary a sound and coherent
argument, would anyone care to share a good reference on this topic?]…Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/remember_a_country_is_not_a_co.html
The power of an open
system (quote): “The curated business, then, will ultimately fail because
it keeps missing this shoulder, this untapped group of talented, eager,
hard-working people shut out by their deliberately closed ecosystem. Over time,
the open systems use their embrace of waste to winnow out the masses and end up
with a new elite, a self-selected group who demonstrate their talent and hard
work and genius over time, not in an audition.”[Note: but the higher the
complexity, perhaps the more closed the better?]…Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/03/most-people-most-of-the-time-the-crowd-fallacy.html
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