gdp's Comments

Nielsen Wire : iPhone vs. Android

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:07:23 +0000

When you get down to the practical level of choosing one device vs the other, especially in a small business context, it's important to identify what each device does better. I wrote a iphone vs android hype-free article over at the Ringio blog.

Gabriel Weinberg's Blog : My Apple Tablet (iSlate) Use Case: Baby Following - Gabriel Weinberg\'s Blog

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:47:50 +0000

If Eli is anything like my kids he is going to get even more attracted by this iPad than by the laptop :-)

Mendelson's Musings : Three things NOT to do when you are pitching me

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:12:20 +0000

About your point #3, I believe in "strong convictions, weakly held", the notion that you speak as if you were right but you listen as if you were wrong. Being able to articulate why you think you're right is not in opposition to being open to the possiibility that you might be wrong.... is this something you would find worthy of respect as an investor?

http://www.jeffnolan.com/blog/ : San Francisco, The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:15:53 +0000

BTW, lots of interesting comments on why SF is poorly run at Hacker News

http://www.jeffnolan.com/blog/ : San Francisco, The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:48:26 +0000

Jeff, I agree with the basic fact of how poorly run SF is, but the key question is why?? What makes it specially suited to mismanagement?

http://www.jeffnolan.com/blog/ : Analyst Reports are Still 1.0

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:18:16 +0000

I see these kinds of reports exceedingly useful in defining the boundaries of convention and in providing a neatly defined conceptual target for being contrarian... it's just a matter of looking at it in the right way.

Beltway Startups : AOL is Leaner

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:19:18 +0000

AOL has a sizable challenge ahead. A company that once was worth $350B is now a mere $2.5B, and they're going against giants with a lot more momentum. AOL still has 100M users and some good properties, but the expectations are so high that nothing short of perfection will be taken as a failure by their naysayers. It was interesting to see Jason Calcanis come out with a strong endorsement of AOL, though. This may be a case where industry insiders and visionaries are seeing a compelling business with much strength and a solid business model and observers are just not clued in.