Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and angel investor concentrating on emerging markets and technologies, is principal of EDventure Holdings. She is a board member of numerous companies, including 23andMe, Eventful, Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva, WPP Group, XCOR Aerospace, and Yandex, and was an early investor in such notable start-ups as Evernote, Flickr, Mashery, Medstory, Omada Health, and Square.
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Commentaries by Esther Dyson
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The HICCup Manifesto
NEW YORK – It is hard to find anyone in health care who does not believe that spending $100 now on healthy behavior – exercise and proper nu…
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Exceptions Become the Rule
NEW YORK – Long ago, I worked as an analyst on Wall Street. The first company that I analyzed was Federal Express, which at the time had not…
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Why Work at Work?
PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, recently created a fuss by issuing an edict that forbids anyone at the company to work from h…
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Caveat Sender!
NEW YORK – How many e-mails do you have in your inbox? In general, each one represents a task – something to read, a query to answer, a meet…
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The Healthy Crowd
BERLIN – I recently attended the JP Morgan health-care conference, the Davos of the medical world. And, like the World Economic Forum’s annu…
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The Rise of the Attention Economy
MOSCOW – I was recently posed the following question: “The most important way in which the Internet and online social media are changing our…
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The Challenge of Medical Empowerment
ABU DHABI – If people can make themselves healthy, should we blame them for getting sick? That is the stark question raised not only by broa…
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Orderly Email
PHOENIX – You may have heard of the “quantified self” movement – the idea that you monitor your own vital signs such as weight or blood suga…
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India’s Feet and Minds
NEW DELHI – Last month, I visited the Jaipur Foot clinic in New Delhi. You may have heard of the Jaipur Foot. It is both an invention – a pr…
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Technology’s Mental Frontier
NEW DELHI – Starting with the opening ceremony at the London Olympics, I have spent the last few weeks considering history and spending time…
The HICCup Manifesto
Zsolt Hermann: The idea of prevention instead of treatment is very good, actually this is the only right approach and not only in terms of healthcare but at all avenues of life, in all areas where humanity is facing…
The HICCup Manifesto
Nathan Coppedge: There is a strong argument going for the idea that people simply do what they want. If they have very particular tastes---however 'atrocious'---they are not likely to benefit by a program which could …