Monthly Archives: November 2018

My favorite links from the week:

• Bill Gates weighs in on HBO’s Silicon Valley
• Socialism is really not a great idea
• Online learning is still growing at a rapid clip
• A day in the life of an indie coworking space manager
• Great piece on WeWork’s pivoting business model
• A massive crater hidden under the ice in Greenland explains the last climate change event
• Magnificent article by Anthony Bourdain: So you wanna be a chef
• The coming nutrient collapse
• Why and how compliance costs emerge in a marketplace (Gov’t, Healthcare, Education)
• A well-written post by Tim Bray on the post-REST world

Have a great Thanksgiving!

The research takes a case study approach, studying in extensive detail the startup community networks in Nairobi and Bangalore. To do this, the authors collected information on the individuals and organizations involved in the startup communities in each of these two cities, and mapped the relationships among them. The main result: Bangalore’s startup community is more productive (more high-growth firms and companies at scale) because the network is denser and because the biggest influencers are themselves entrepreneurs; the opposite is true in Nairobi.

From New Evidence on Fostering Productive Startup Communities