Yesterday, Silicon Alley Insider wrote that Obama’s pick to head the Justice Department’s antitrust unit is decidedly and publicly anti-Google. Now, as Henry Blodget put it, this in no way means a certain antitrust movement against Big Rainbow (Google): Hard to view this as anything but ...

Today I wrote an email reply to an entrepreneur I’ve written a hundred times since I’ve been on the VC/startup advisor side of the table. It’s an email I wish I had written myself nearly three years ago when I began my BricaBox quest, and so I’m releasing it to the general pu...

The following post is by my father, Richard Westheimer, who has the joy of working both in the early stage tech world, as an investor and occasional Board member, and in the stock market, as an investment advisor. He sent me this story earlier this morning, and I have edited out the name of the comp...

There are always two sides to any conflict and any business process as well so the major reason for any misunderstanding is that people simply see one side of the process and fail to understand what the other thinks. But trying to understand what the other side has in mind could be just the right th...

Over the past few years we’ve seen the rise of cute ideas, ones we love using on a daily basis, but are hard to turn into real, long-term businesses. Most were hoping that a sugar daddy would buy their cuteness for bags full of money. Scribd, a San Francisco-based company, is a perfect example...

Whether you’re a regular reader, or just pop in occasionally, it’s not always easy to keep up with our Wikinomics blog content. With this in mind, we have created the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, to try and capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced t...

In the beautiful Seattle airport last weekend and I decided to purchase the most current issue of WIRED. Browsing through the countless hard liquor ads I found a celebrity startup section about half way through. To my surprise, the beloved David Caruso of CSI: Miami fame has a startup called Lexicon...

Techcrunch hat angeblich Insiderinfos, dass Twitters Nutzungsdaten wie folgt aussehen: Total Users: 1+ million Total Active Users: 200,000 per week Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day Das stimmt ungefähr mit dem überein, was wir letzte Woche bereits durchgeacktert hatten: geschäftzt...

na also, geht doch, nicht immer die klassische Meldung “wir sind da, testet uns”, sondern auch mal was Mutiges von Popula.de, einem neuen Event-Startup. Mutig? Na ja, mutig kann man das zwar auch nennen, besser wäre wohl kreativ zu sagen, immerhin soll ein Produkt auch Fun mit sich ...

Now that RealNetworks has launched Scrabble by Mattel, the fate of Facebook application Scrabulous looks grim. Earlier this year, Scrabulous, which is … um…inspired by Scrabble, found itself on the receiving end of a shutdown threat from Mattel and Hasbro, holders of the Scrabble license...