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Online in the Wild

I'm 26 years old now and ever since I can remember, computers have been billed as "the next big thing" in the way that we will integrate it with our daily lives. And so it has too; computers are being used by more people, doing more different things than they

A Gulf of Difference

AirBnB just announced a whopping new funding deal worth $112 million. [http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/07/25/airbnb-from-y-combinator-to-112m-funding-in-three-years/] Sheesh. What do you do with $112 million? I come from a bootstrapped background and I've never been close to seeing anything like that kind of money in my own

Creating Value

After reading this article about Airbnb’s success [http://innovationhype.com/blog/accommodations-2-0-the-rise-of-airbnb/], there was one bit from the article that really got me thinking: > “…a company that creates immensely more value than it extracts from customers…” Reading & re-reading that phrase really got me thinking about how other business models