A couple weeks from now we’re going to start serializing my 1992 book Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date. It’s the book that was the basis for my 1996 documentary TV series Triumph of the Nerds and ultimately led to this column starting on pbs.org in 1997.
What goes around comes around.
We’ll be serializing the complete 1996 paperback edition which is 102,000 words in length, pumping the book onto the intertubes at around 2,000 words per day. In about 51 days, give or take a bit, we’ll put the entire work on the web with no ads and no subscription fee, just lots and lots of […]
As I’ve written here many times before, small companies and especially new companies are what create nearly all of the net new jobs in America, yet a 
This is the third and final part of my series on crowdfunding. In 
When President Obama signed the 
YouTube made two fascinating announcements recently: 1) viewers are now downloading an average of two billion videos per day on the service, and; 2) YouTube is almost showing a profit for Google, its owner. Think about the glorious inefficiency embodied in that latter statement: two billion downloads per day just to break even. And this is supposed to be the future of television? Hardly.
Update — Startup questionnaires go out this evening (Monday, May 17th). If you don’t receive one and think that you should have, please contact 
There are approximately two weeks to go for nominations to the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour. With just under 400 companies nominated so far, both in the open and in stealth mode, my goal for the next two weeks is to break 400, making it that much harder to decide on a final 24.
