Not every leap is fortunate. My guess is that Apple’s iPod era will eventually give rise to another leap for hearing aid companies in the next 10-year period, during which early-adopting iPod heavy users will begin to realize considerable loss in hearing ability. Though not necessarily the winner, a company named Sonitus was mentioned in [...]
To set things straight, this is a blog and it seems like I am badmouthing something that I am personally a part of. But I felt the urge to do so after seeing a series of examples that underlined why blogs suck at most times.
I see that people are talking about the demise of traditional [...]
14 Jan
Posted by Emrecan Dogan as Uncategorized
Today, TechCrunch ran a post on webmail providers’ policy regarding deletion of inactive e-mails. Jason Kincaid argues that while the cost of storage for these providers are way down and incredible amounts of storage space are given to users for free, these deletion policies are not relevant anymore because it doesn’t cost much for these [...]
11 Jan
Posted by Emrecan Dogan as Expectations, Investing, Venture, What is Next
I try to write all about the next leap. Sometimes, it would be nice to stop, take one step back and look at what I am trying to do. This week, I started a great class on hi-tech start-ups in Stanford Business School’s entrepreneurship track. It is taught by Mark Leslie and Andy Rachleff. Both [...]
PC Gaming is failing. We can use anecdotal evidence from both market-level and user-level to conclude so. Statistics are all around the place. Sales of entertainment software experienced a robust gain in 2008 and in December holiday period, while console gaming compensating for the loss in PC gaming software. Today, I met a very knowledgeable game [...]