Is your startup’s technology defensible? My test for technical defensibility in a startup When I am working on the technical due diligence of a startup company before VC investment, one of my goals is determining in what ways the technology being built affects the company’s strategy: how (and if) it contributes to the product’s defensibility.…
A software house is a very common type of business in my part of the world. It is a company employing engineers to work on software products, and sells the IP created in its entirety (or almost) to the customer. In Poland these are usually small to medium operations (5 to 300 employees). They keep…
When I was a kid, I used to invent languages. I thought myself rather lonely in this pastime, but now I know I was far from alone. A very prolific language inventor was JRR Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, whose languages deserve their own Wikipedia entry. There’s even a vibrant Internet…
An inspirational example of how elementary math is open to everyoneRecently, two teenage girls — Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson — gave a presentation to the American Mathematical Society where they demonstrated a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Their proof has caused quite a stir. One reason for the stir delights me and makes…
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