Given your bent on sustainable business models, Silicon Valley startups, VCs, and the effects of the existence of Google-like entities, you might find interest

Given your bent on sustainable business models, Silicon Valley startups, VCs, and the effects of the existence of Google-like entities, you might find interesting Jaron Lanier's recent brain dump[1] on those topics and a little more. It's a one hour video, and the most immediately relevant topics are sort of far along, but there's a (cleaned-up, prosified) transcript available, too. (That might be a bonus in its own right, if you're someone who prefers to read rather than waiting on a speaker's own cadence and pauses.) 1. http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip