Dave Paola

Weekly Roundup

11/20/201811/20/2018 Dave Paola

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!

New Evidence on Fostering Productive Startup Communities

11/17/2018 Dave Paola

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

Weekly Roundup

10/19/2018 Dave Paola

My favorite links from this week:

Li Jin: 5 Things to Look for to Make E-commerce Startups Work. I’d call these mostly common sense, but good to be reminded.
Why one man votes no on ballot initiatives (this makes a lot of sense to me)
Chevron Deference: Administrative Law (starts with a boring subject and ends with extremely salient points about gender politics, highly, highly recommended reading)
A thread about google’s censorship in China
Data on groups that cooperate best
The surprising endurance of the eReader
The United Nations climate report: “We Didn’t Realize How Soon It’s Going to Come”
Bill Gates published a great article about what he’s doing to combat climate change
Patrick McKenzie writes about a fascinating Japanese tax game: Japan’s Hometown Tax
Book review: How Precision Engineering Made Modernity Possible
Thoughtbot made their online learning platform free: Upcase
50% of human experience has happened after 1309 AD. 15% of all experience has been experienced by people who are alive right now.

Have a great weekend!