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
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
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