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The correct answer is nail some verticals first then if you got the juice and substance go horizontal fast before Google. Cisco, Intel, GE and perhaps a few other get there ;-)

1 day, 1 hour ago on For the Internet of things, will it be verticals or horizontals?

You should have titled this piece " The snake oil social media salesmen really don't know how or what works best so mostly peddle themselves and their bullshit"

5 days, 2 hours ago on Social media may finally be dying, but the BS around it hasn’t

Terrific to see and wish African countries with all the poaching and slaughtering would do something like this to raise awareness !

1 week ago on Skyping with elephants: a new paradigm for education

Hands down Zany McWhackypants is the key target and screw the rest especially Pattern-matching Paul

3 weeks ago on The joy of stereotyping venture capitalists

Canva’s experience is testament to the power of network effects ( so very true ) and that cute yellow dress was a nice added touch ;-)

3 weeks, 5 days ago on How an Australian startup raised $3M in seed funding from Silicon Valley

Good points from Gün Sirer on Summly which I agree with.

Narrative Science, News360 and Futureful are good offerings but when you just say semantic analysis this is too vague

The best apps ( none listed in your article ) will do semantic analysis with extraction of pattern-identified information including attributes associated with terms and concept extraction with contextual relationships that includes sentiment analysis.

Yes there's more but enough for now ;)

1 month, 3 weeks ago on Forget about Summly – what we need is analysis

Yikes "Innovation as a Service” is just horrible and “StartEngine: Powered by Accenture Digital Services" is lame and boring

1 month, 3 weeks ago on StartEngine goes corporate with Accenture partnership. Will an “Innovation as a Service” program turn off entrepreneurs?

> It seems we’re going to have to go over this Series A crunch thing one more time.

I got it first time around but it this still was lots of fun reading ;)

> But imagine a hundred kids came into play a game that was designed for about 10. That is effectively what is different this time around. The number of chairs (the Series A round) hasn’t changed. But since so many more kids are trying to play the game and don’t get one, it has a more dramatic ripple effect.

Perhaps you should have used this brilliant school kid analogy is your initial post http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/28/the-series-a-crunch-is-hitting-now-have-we-even-noticed/ to hammer the message home

> Hit your milestones, develop deep relationships with deep pocketed investors, and start raising your Series A well before you need it.

Bingo !

PS - the explainer video was a nice added special touch ;)

2 months ago on If you’re going to rebut the Series A crunch, it’s a good idea to know what it is first

Wonder if First Round Capital and PivotNorth Capital fact checked that 80% of new information is unstructured and does not live in SQL DB's

2 months, 1 week ago on Looker launches out of stealth with $2M to make manual SQL queries a thing of the past

If you read Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt then actually heed some of his key points you'll go a long way to addressing the No. 1 question they ask....why now ?

2 months, 3 weeks ago on Pitching Sequoia? Here’s the big question you’ll need to answer

Unfortunately kinda hard to talk about technology and startups when The state of our union is dumber: How the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/feb/12/state-of-the-union-reading-level?CMP=twt_gu

3 months ago on State of the Union: What presidents talk about when they talk about technology

@Pv @sardire OK good and exactly my point in my comment above ;)

3 months, 1 week ago on Three reasons not to build a Minimum Viable Product

Most of your argument is centered around 1. You are building a sustaining innovation or disruptive product which is your best point and would have more merit if more startups clearly understood the difference ( i.e. way too many think they're disruptive which is much harder to achieve ) and for the ones that get this right then 3. You achieve product-market fit really is a derivative of 1. You are building a sustaining innovation or disruptive product.

Finally regarding 2. You don’t care if you’re wasteful today translates into your will flame out faster and not get Series A funding unless you find some dumbass VC or angel investors ;)

3 months, 1 week ago on Three reasons not to build a Minimum Viable Product

Good quips on all categories but most amusing was Social Media Marketing Expert (1,704 on Twitter) where Klout score is higher than his Creditscore. His Klout score is 11.

4 months, 1 week ago on How to tell the difference between a social media maven, a ninja, and a guru

storytelling has been around as long as human language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling

4 months, 2 weeks ago on 2013, the year of storytelling

You're doing a heckuva job trying to summon the ghost of Steve Jobs ;)

5 months ago on Whether it’s through iOS or Android, Google is winning mobile

@benkepes @AaronEndre @themaria Ouch !!!

5 months ago on Dear Yammer and the entire cloud wave: If you expect companies to use your software, it has to work

@benkepes @kevinmarks I say let's have a cage match and Ben also agree with your comment above on overt and despicable product shilling !

5 months ago on Dear Yammer and the entire cloud wave: If you expect companies to use your software, it has to work

Sarah - so please tell us how do you really feel ;)

> Using Chatter is like watching your dad trying to moonwalk. “Hey, look, kids! We can be cool and social too!”