What’s in a name? Value vs. monetisation.

Pump and bucket

Names matter. Years ago, back in the salad days of the late noughties/ early teens, there was a conversation I had  with a whole lot of startup founders. It was a conversation about money, specifically how they would make some. Their investors were starting to ask for returns. As is my way, I sat down with some of these founders …

The root of all evil? [post 3/100]

Reading Tom Armitage’s excellent piece about capitalism and the IoT (go read it, I’ll wait) made me simultaneously happy (it’s not just me!) and sad (oh god, this looks grim). But I still say it doesn’t have to be like that. And I don’t actually agree that capitalism is the problem here, exactly. I do, however, think that if we’re …