I wish someone at Cisco systems would religiously enforces some of these standards. They consistently approach products at a minimally viable level and they almost always become frankensteins because of it. Just one of many reasons they've been in some financial hot water in the past few years.
Did you all shun Apple when Foxconn employees started jumping to their deaths? I'm guessing not.
Is it possible that you'd be letting your bias get in the way of your business sense? What if those products could have significantly helped your business?
The author only reinforces the fact that booth babes work. His argument that he hates them because he falls for them would probably only get me to consider using booth babes in the future. Sure, the approach is kind of 'Don Draper' but considering the audience... it's probably a viable marketing approach.
There's probably an argument there about looking for original marketing approaches, as booth babes are an old and one "might" say overdone idea.
If anything I would say that my reader saves me time and distraction. I don't have to search for the information I'm looking for, wasting needless time on links in search that wind up being non-relavent spam. I get to skim through articles that have a higher probability of being relevant to something that I need to know and I get to do this at my leisure.
From my brief experience with unity I would say that it probably has a ways to go before it rivals games like Infinity Blade (which uses Unreal) on mobile devices. I would say that there shouldn't be any performance issues with console or computer games built on unity.
while they haven't gone through the trouble of posting valuations (I agree, it would be nice to see) they do have a results page http://www.techstars.org/results/
I'm a fan of this subject and I think that it's a relatively easy to associate the video game industry as something meaningless. (that doesn't mean that it's correct)
In my humble opinion: if YC has found a way to scale up to 63 (or more) companies per session and the media is having a hard time documenting everything on demo day, perhaps the two should be separated into a demo day and respective media day. It may even warrant a longer durration of time per activity.
After being an engineer with Cisco for 2.5 years I want to say that this article nails it when it says that companies like Cisco get "too big and unwieldily" - unfortunately I feel like it has more to do with their management style than anything. There are companies in this world that are just as big yet make better products, are less wasteful and flat out operate on a smarter level.
While it is legal (for the time being) it is highly unregulated. Money laundering is the first thing I thought of when learned about the bitcoin, which, ironically is one of the excuses the government used to crack down on online gambling recently.
I've been a flash/flex guy for a number of years. For however many rough spots it may have the cross platform nature of flash/air is something that shouldn't be ignored.