Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

Yesterday, Cisco Systems agreed to acquire Starent Networks for $2.9 billion, a company most people have never heard or read about. Did Cisco in one fell swoop put a bullet into heart of competition and the competitive landscape? Starent represents one big strategic piece of the massively growing mobile infrastructure puzzle – core network software ...

Scott Kirsner wrote a nice summary from his notes at a recent innovation unconference in Boston. This is a very important topic and movement in Boston. Boston has a deep history (emphasis on history) of entrepreneurship, going back to days where immigrants hustled their way to freedom and wealth. Don’t forget the early days of ...

Saw Paul Kedrosky’s post over on Techcrunch, and had to respond. I wonder what or if the Kaufman Foundation is doing around research where real time web’s impacts the venture and entrepreneurial process? Here is my ANGLE on Venture Capital and the entrepreneurial process: I have a graduate degree in entrepreneurship and have been an ...

In the midst of the whole FTC blogger disclosure debacle, Matt Cutts came out pro-FTC, as we noted Tuesday in our FTC blogger roundup. Cutts proudly put forth his disclosure up on his website: I was glad to see that the FTC unanimously approved new guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials. The updated guidelines affirm the ...

It it obvious to any of us entrepreneurs out there that the entrepreneurial market is growing not shrinking. Yet we have venture capitalists talking about their problems and the overall shrinking venture market. This article several weeks ago from my friend Jon Callaghan, founder of True Ventures, got me motivated to share my observations on ...

WiMax Comes to Silicon Valley http://gigaom.com/2009/09/15/google-gets-its-wimax-clearwire-launches-silicon-valley-network/ Three of the biggest investors in Clearwire are Intel, Google and Cisco, and they coincidentally happen to be based in the area covered by this network. Actually the Intel and Google campuses are covered by this network and the Cisco campus will get its 4G fix soon. Now if ...

Journalism 2.0 – Businessweek has 93 Interested Buyers http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=agbQCRqmrBbU BusinessWeek magazine has generated interest from 93 potential buyers, McGraw-Hill Cos. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry McGraw said. “Everybody’s involved,” McGraw, 61, told Bloomberg Television today. “There’s a lot of interest.” Parties include private equity, hedge funds and strategic buyers, said McGraw, whose New York-based ...

Attention VCs – Old Guys Are The Best To Fund My angle: Being a 40 something entrepreneur myself it’s nice to see this post from Techcrunch – The Angle Excerpts below. Being an entrepreneur you learn to innovate at many levels. Self preservation is most of the time the key driver. Nothing comes in handy ...

Silicon Valley Cloud Meetup Tomorrow Night Want to use the Cloud, but think it might be a waste not to use existing servers? Hybrid Clouds may be the answer. A Hybrid Cloud is an environment consisting of multiple internal and/or external providers. Use existing hardware, and burst out using resources from a Cloud vendor such ...