I don’t like Twitter. I’ve never been coy about that. When it first launched, I thought, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” When it exploded in use, I thought, “This too shall pass.” When Ashton Kutcher sent a picture of his wife’s ass to the world, I thought, “We have reached the point of no [...]
Continue Reading →I started my day at SAP Labs in Palo Alto moderating a panel discussion about “Enabling Innovation: How does it happen? What’s the secret sauce?” The room was filled with the managing directors of SAP Labs worldwide and their invited guests, the vast majority of them representing multi-billion dollar global [...]
Continue Reading →A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure to speak at Startup Camp in Montreal. During the Q&A to an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs, I described entrepreneurship thusly:
Imagine you’re at Disneyland. It’s August. The California sun is hot. You’re in line for the Space Mountain ride and you just know it’s [...]
Continue Reading →I had a delightful lunch yesterday with Howard Hartenbaum, a general partner at August Capital. The lunch was offered as a “prize” during Lunchster‘s six-minute product launch at DEMOfall. I’d agreed to have lunch with whomever won the draw, even these [...]
Continue Reading →I awoke before sunrise this morning to an urgent email from a client who was trying to deal with a contentious “customer.”
I put the word customer in quotes because the guy doing the complaining hadn’t actually purchased anything. In fact, that was his complaint; the client used the word “free” to describe a component [...]
Continue Reading →Jason Calacanis is at it again, and this time – dare I say it – the man has a point. In a post last Friday, Jason rails (does he do anything other?) against angel investor groups that charge startups a fee to present at their forums.
He writes:
Recently, I was made [...]
Continue Reading →I need help. No really, I do. No snark, sniping or sarcasm this time – I need some honest-to-pete technological counsel. While this is not a problem your average Internet user faces, it is something those of us living in our browsers struggle with daily: how do you choose where to post stuff?
I have [...]
Continue Reading →Taping this week’s DEMOcast with Keith Shaw got me waxing philosophical. We were discussing the moon landing and, if it occurred today, what sort of reaction it would elicit. The conclusion we ultimately came to was that it would generate some excitement for a few hours, [...]
Continue Reading →Ah vacation. There’s nothing like a little time off to give one perspective. So it was that a week ago Friday, I tweeted that I’d be making no tech-related updates during my time off. Then, I promptly forgot about Twitter completely. I made a once-daily visit to Facebook to keep up with [...]
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