A detailed account of a white American male who has lived and worked in Japan for a decade. The first section’s title quickly grabbed my attention: “The Company Is Father. The Company Is Mother.” | learn more
When I was a youngster, I would labor at the keyboard of our family computer trying to make it do as I said. You might say I “taught myself” how to program. What does that really mean? It means I […]
I probably should have expected this, but I didn’t. Have you visited Relentless.com recently? “Amazon could build a zero-margin equivalent of C.H. Robinson inside the ‘shipping costs’ line on its P&L without anyone noticing.” | learn more
Reading this, I learned a lot about both kidnapping as a business and the insurance product that’s been created around it. As you might guess, it’s a complicated relationship. | learn more
Not Whole Foods, and not Amazon Go, but another brand altogether. This supports the Stratechery analysis from July 2017 quite well. | learn more
“In China’s biggest cities, restaurants are struggling to satisfy the appetites of customers ordering food delivery through apps on their phones. That’s leading to a booming market for renting kitchen space, without tables, chairs or waiters.” | learn more
“With the new Surge Cities Index, Inc. and innovation policy company Startup Genome crunched the data to score and rank the top 50 metro areas in the U.S. on seven key indicators–from early-stage funding metrics to job creation.” Chicago is […]
This shoe brand has come out of nowhere to take the tech world by storm. I own a pair and love them. This interesting article in Forbes discusses the leap of faith the founders took to build the business. | learn more
This doesn’t look like it belongs in the tech section on the surface. But this is yet another example of how tech is enabling new classes of business – the niche lifestyle media brand. Remember, until very recently media was […]
The Korean conglomerate is setting up a strategic business unit to focus on the space. I love seeing more competitors jump into the fray of this major change in transportation. Maybe we’ll find that many investments won’t pan out, but […]