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Enterprise Products

  • Level3 and Internet Congestion, Dropbox Data Leak, Microsoft Surface


  • Daily Update: Android Silver, Box’s Delayed IPO, AppLinks Followup


  • The Heart of Dropbox

    Last Thursday, after waking up to the news of Dropbox’s most recent announcements,1 I couldn’t have been less impressed. To quote myself from a chat I had with a friend: “Dropbox is an unfocused mess.” But then I actually watched the event. I’ve long been a believer in cloud storage; back in college I experimented […]


  • Box, Microsoft, and the Next Enterprise Platform

    Let’s get one thing out of the way: there is nothing about Box’s S-1 filing that suggests tech is in a bubble. Indeed, the fact Aaron Levie and company are not yet profitable is a good thing. To understand why, you must read Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not by VC Mark Suster: There […]


  • Battle of the Box

    The battle between Dropbox and Box show the differences between selling to consumers and selling to enterprise.


  • The Dropbox Opportunity

    Benedict Evans, in Glass, Home and solipsism, one of the most insightful posts I’ve read in some time: Your customers’ relationships with you are the only relationships you have as a business and you think a lot about them. But you’re one of a thousand things your customer thinks about in a week, and one […]


  • Dropbox and the Entrepreneur’s Blindspot

    This was originally posted on my old, defunct Tumblr I love Dropbox. Seriously, it may be my most essential app/service. When I save a document, it’s backed up instantly. No matter what happens, I will always have access to that file from any computer. I can even sync it to a second computer if I […]