February 2010
4 posts
Jesse Schell Describes The Future of Games
School is a game, right? You go, you get scores. You come out, there’s a leaderboard.
He (Lee Sheldon) doesn’t give out grades for each assignment. He gives out experience points. And you level up through the class. So class attendance is up. Class participation is up. Homework is turned in better. Because it’s a better structure. It’s a better system.
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Thoughts on RightSide Capital
MobileCrunch reports that David Lambert, Kevin Dick and John Lee are starting RightSide Capital, a new seed-stage fund that will make 100-200 investments per year
Entrepreneurs looking for funding won’t have to go the traditional route of begging for a meeting and then having a second meeting and then waiting 3 months for traction until finally closing a deal. Instead, they will fill out an...
One Person Profitable
Ideally you want between two and four founders. It would be hard to start with just one. One person would find the moral weight of starting a company hard to bear. Even Bill Gates, who seems to be able to bear a good deal of moral weight, had to have a co-founder
— Paul Graham, How to Start a Startup
What Is One Person Profitable?
There’s a lot of single founders out...
The E-Book Pricing War Heats Up
Publishing is made out of pipes. Traditionally the supply chain ran: author -> publisher -> wholesaler -> bookstore -> consumer.
Then the internet came along, a communications medium the main effect of which is to disintermediate indirect relationships, for example by collapsing supply chains with lots of middle-men.
From the point of view of the public, to whom they sell, Amazon...