Schiller meets John Gruber for a 1 on 1 about Mountain Lion, the new Apple operating system. Schiller has no notes. He is every bit as articulate, precise, and rehearsed as he is for major on-stage events. He knows the slide deck stone cold. It strikes me that I have spoken in front of a […]
Author Archives: Philipp
Why Android is stuck
Funny how “legacy design” is an issue for a 5 year old platform. Things just move that quickly these days. Miner told me the grand vision for Android: it would be a solid foundation for mobile phones, based on Linux, that would work with many types of hardware, and it would be fully customizable. It […]
Where to hire engineers in London?
Lots of people approach me about finding “technical co-founders” “a few great engineers” for their companies. It’s not easy to hire at the moment, much less so in London where the banks and successful Seedcamp startups eat away all the talent (or so). Where to advertise for and find engineers? I usually say “good luck” […]
Can’t wait for the really cool photo apps on tablets
I really love my cameras. I put a lot of hours into learning to use them, figuring out particularities, buying lenses and filters, etc. I am by no means a prosumer or even expert, but I know a little bit about taking pictures, composition, and aperture, exposure, blablabla. In high school, we had a very […]
Effective intros
My life consists of making intros to various people – for better or worse. I love connecting dots, so it’s a lot of fun and often rewarding, but it can also be lots of back and forth. In the series of “posts that originally were emails I wrote at least 5 times in the last […]
One hell of a year. Thanks, all!
Careful: boring blogpost about my year ahead. I’ve spent the past two weeks at home, in Germany. I finally had some time to wind down, relax a little, and read. I haven’t managed to come even close to my goal of 80% couch time, but it’s all good. As everyone, I’ve had a bunch of […]
The peculiarities of education startups
My colleague Carlos forwarded an article today: Most entrepreneurs in education build the wrong type of business, because entrepreneurs think of education as a quality problem. The average person thinks of it as a cost problem. Building in education does not follow an Internet company’s growth curve. Do it because you want to fix problems in […]