Iterations

I have been an official contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011, and write a weekly opinion column called “Iterations” which is published every Sunday morning at 10am PST. (Click here for an archive list of those articles.)

TechCrunch Column 2011-2013:

  • Twitter’s Golden Egg: Location
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Quora
  • The Thin Wedge of Quora
  • What Are Quora’s Biggest Challenges
  • The Next Mass Consumer Wave: Political Expression
  • Big Data Needs To Think Bigger
  • Mobile Messaging March Madness
  • True Colors: Bathing Mobile In An Entirely New Light
  • The Seed Stage Dandelion Effect
  • The P2P Evolution
  • The Illusion of Social Networks
  • The Music Runs Through Our Veins
  • Is Google Asking The Wrong Question With Social?
  • Google’s Six Front War
  • The Way We Eat
  • The Twitter Endgame: IPO, Chess, or Roulette?
  • The Underground Promise of Turntable.fm
  • The Primary Colors of Secondary Markets
  • Another Reason Facebook Wants A Web of Real Identities: Commerce
  • How Discovery Will Drive Transactions
  • The Fragmented Mobile Information Race
  • The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes from TC Disrupt SF
  • The Facebook iPhone
  • Swords And Shields In The Merchant Economy
  • The Rise of Pinterest And The Shift From Search To Discovery
  • Clawbacks And Startups Don’t Mix
  • The Big Data Bottleneck In The Consumer Web
  • Social Travel; Rediscovering The Friendly Skies
  • Exploring The “Labs” Trend In Consumer Startups
  • Social Censorship In India: Much Ado About Nothing
  • IFTTT Triggers Loyal, Nerdy Following
  • Despite Attacks, Klout Is Poised To Boost Its Influence
  • Uber’s New Year’s Eve Surcharges Demonstrate The Harsh Reality Of Dynamic Pricing
  • The Dawn Of Social Lobbying
  • The Forest, The Trees, And The Next Big Thing
  • Asana And Orchestra Help Me Regain Control Of Email
  • The Twitter Mafia Poised To Be Silicon Valley’s Next Great Network
  • The Seven Forces Disrupting Venture Capital
  • Why Location-Based Services Will Create Multiple Winners At The Application Layer
  • Craigslist’s Network Effects And The Great Platform Challenge
  • Public Market Sentiment Rattles Startups’ Cages
  • A New Era In Transportation Systems
  • The New Movable Type
  • The Future Of Amazon: Ambitious, Diverse, and Expansive
  • My Disrupt Takeaways In Three Words: Enterprise, Celebrity, And Khosla
  • Recruiting The New Labor Force
  • We Know About B2B And B2C, But Don’t Overlook B2D
  • Reinvention And Re-Rolling The Dice
  • Finding Your Signal In The Noise Of Fundraising
  • The Harsh Realities Of iOS App Distribution
  • “It’s Delicate, But Potent”
  • All The News That’s Fit To Reinvent
  • Putting Entrepreneurial Risk In Perspective
  • The Unbundling Power Of Mobile
  • Collective Wisdom
  • Let’s Hear From Developers In The War For Talent
  • The Unbundling Potential Of Apple’s Passbook
  • Google Challenges Apple At The iOS Application Layer
  • A Warby Parker For [Blank] And Consumer Product Reinvention
  • It’s Early Innings For Digital Pictures
  • Traction Capital
  • Lessons We Can Draw From Cherry
  • Graph Search, In Theory And In Practice
  • Silicon Valley Slowly Awakens To Android (On Samsung)
  • The Spectre Of Inorganic Distribution
  • SnapChat’s Success Challenges Many Silicon Valley Assumptions
  • How Founders Can Fight Through The Great Fragmentation Of Talent
  • Inception, Courtesy Of Public Relations
  • Much Ado About Yahoo!
  • The Diamond Is In The Comments
  • The Improbable, Captivating Pivot from Orchestra To Mailbox
  • “We [Lucky] Few”
  • Calendar Frenzy, Google Now, and Apple’s “Anticipatory Computing” Problem
  • The Tension Between Transparency and Privacy in the Startup Ecosystem
  • What Five Real Economists Think Of Bitcoin’s Future
  • From Singapore To Silicon Valley, The Cross-Pacific Journey Of Developer-Focused Nitrous.IO
  • How Six Technology Investors Size Up The Google Glass Opportunity
  • Snoopify, The Greatest Mobile Photobombing App Of All Time
  • How Tech Hedge Funds And Investment Banks Make Sense Of Apple’s Share Buybacks
  • How ESPN Thinks About The Future Of Its Product And Technologies
  • From Amazon Prime To Amazon Pronto, The Future Of Physical Delivery
  • Getting To Series A Is Not Sexy, It’s Really Hard Work
  • Man Vs. (The Government) Machine