This post about competitive dynamics has been stewing in my mind for months now and it’s still a work in progress.  At its heart is a framework for thinking about a common type of tech company:  the aggregator.   The aggregator takes disparate items, gathers them, and presents them as a unified front.
Aggregators can exist for [...]

Benny and Ashley and I officially launched Exit Strategy NYC last night at the NY Tech Meetup!
Exit Strategy NYC is an iPhone, Blackberry, and Android app that answers the quintessential New Yorker’s question: “Where should I stand on the subway platform?” After months of full-time subway riding, we’ve created detailed diagrams for hundreds of NYC [...]

(This is the first in a two part post. Part one contains a profile of a startup.  Part two contains numbers and analysis related to that startup.)
Mobile Spinach is a small and ambitious Bay Area startup focused on the mobile coupon space.  The company is still at a very early stage — seed funded [...]

I’m in love with an animal!
No, this isn’t some kind of bestiality confession.  I’m talking about Aardvark — a 15-person San Francisco startup made up largely of ex-Googlers and backed by $6 million from top investors.  Like many relationships, this one started with a friend’s introduction.  In February, Omar Christidis had been waxing poetic [...]

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(This is the second of a two part post.   The first part can be found here)
The ubiquitous iPhone/iPod Touch devices are stealing Bug Labs’s thunder.  To understand why, realize that the iPod/iPhone are no longer mere personal music devices carried around in a pocket.  Instead, they’re increasingly purchased as [...]