Banking is the reality of our daily lives, but why does the experience have to be so painful? Here are 3 reasons I think there is room for a new bank. #1 Startups need it At our startup, iMedicare, we use Square 1 Bank. And we hate it. …

1. The technology you’ll work on is not applicable on anything outside of Google To start off, the file system. The Google File System is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google for its own use. What about the data storage? Oh, Bigtable. Bigtable is a compressed, high performance, data storage system (proprietary, of course) built on Google File System. Thankfully, Google open…

Every day another high profile founder like the creator of Ruby on Rails (DHH) writes an anti-disrupt-o-mania article. Anti-unicorns. Should we feel pleasure when seeing Gilt join the unicorpses?