{"id":110,"date":"2003-09-01T22:24:52","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T03:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/that-determinism-thing-again\/"},"modified":"2003-09-01T22:24:52","modified_gmt":"2003-09-02T03:24:52","slug":"that-determinism-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/that-determinism-thing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"that determinism thing again"},"content":{"rendered":"

i’ve watched with some interest dave sifry<\/a>‘s adventures with sputnik<\/a>, because i think there’s a lot for me to learn. today’s lesson comes a few days late (it’s been a strange weekend), but this piece on business models<\/a> made interesting reading. it’s part of an ongoing dialogue between don park<\/a> (of smgt-phone<\/a> fame) and tim oren<\/a> (of declining social capital in vc<\/a> fame).<\/p>\n

i guess don started this one here<\/a>. tim’s public analysis<\/a> offers some real insight into (and evidence of) the experience on the vc side of the world. ultimately, dave had a few things<\/a> to say (and kudos for seeing sputnik in the abstract).<\/p>\n

now, i am given to understand that “tool” is a very bad word in technology and investor circles these days, but, i just have to bring this full circle. this is the issue of determinism<\/a>, which is one of the thoughts that actually prompted me to start this crazy blog thing. i’m still far from conclusions, but this discussion among the blogs (and now, i guess, i’ve dragged my own into the mix) gives a lot of different, and very interesting, perspectives on the question.<\/p>\n

dave’s comments on the new<\/em> sputnik business model include this statement: “let our customers figure out the business model that was right for them.” twice. in bold.<\/p>\n

i couldn’t agree more – it’s a fundamental premise in my current work in the business of music, and it was a fundamental premise in my last major adventure in big business, too. maybe that makes me a tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i’ve watched with some interest dave sifry‘s adventures with sputnik, because i think there’s a lot for me to learn. today’s lesson comes a few days late (it’s been a strange weekend), but this piece on business models made interesting reading. it’s part of an ongoing dialogue between don park (of smgt-phone fame) and tim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}