articles looking at how startup entrepreneurs can hope to compete vs the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft: the “five big tech companies”
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New York Times, 2017: "In Silicon Valley, small companies used to unseat big ones. Now the clutches of the five biggest tech companies are hard to ...
I like to think of investing in new things a bit like a football running play. Imagine you are the running back. You’ve been handed the football an...
TechCrunch 2017: “Three prominent tech thinkers recently declared the end of the startup era, questioned the future of tech innovation generally a...
TechCrunch, 2017: "There's a weird feeling afoot these days, in the Valley, and in San Francisco. Across the rest of the world -- Denver, Santiago,...
The Economist, 2017: "Regulating the internet giants. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. The data economy demands a ...
The Guardian, 2017: “The long read: For decades, tech companies promised to make the world better. As that dream falls apart, disillusioned inside...
The Economist, 2017: “Should the world’s biggest company shrink its in-house finance division before it goes bananas?
Wired, 2017: “Facebook's pattern of acquiring or copying hot startups threatens innovation in social media.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2017: "Silicon Valley makes billions of dollars peddling personal information, supported by an ecosystem of bit players. O...
NOT long ago, being the boss of a big Western tech firm was a dream job. As the billions rolled in, so did the plaudits: Google, Facebook, Amazon a...
The last thing we need at this time is for Amazon, Facebook and Google to avoid antitrust scrutiny.
The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. MORE
“As soon as a smart product or business idea becomes popular, the urge to copy it and commoditize it is the strongest force economics can unleash. ...
Around the world, a handful of visionaries are plotting an alternative online future. Is it really possible to remake the internet in a way th...
When Adam and Shivaun Raff's company was destroyed by Google, they didn't get mad – they got even. Now, for the first time, the couple tell their s...
“Rupert Murdoch's influence could eventually extend in ways that would make his grip on satellite television seem parochial, says Victor Keegan.
Understanding the differences between aggregators and platforms matters for companies interacting with them and also regulators considering antitru...
IT IS a classic startup story, but with a twist. Three 20-somethings launched a firm out of a dorm room at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...
In 2017 building a startup is hype. When most startups start to reach VCs to launch their product, there is another way to do it: Bootstrapping. Cr...
There’s enough opportunity for everyone in the world. The problem is that most people don’t use the opportunities. If you want to have a specific c...
Squad could be the next teen sensation because it makes it easy to do nothing… together. Spending time with friends in the modern age often means j...
We started Smartcar a few years ago with a powerful mission: making it possible for developers to easily build apps for cars. We created a standard...
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