I met with Songkick at SXSW, a Y Combinator startup that aims to bring live music to the masses. The London-based company is announcing some exciting new features next week (I call it “music semantics”) but for now, I’ll share what interests me about its current offerings.
CEO Ian [...]
Continue Reading →I was excited to see yesterday that HiveLive, a Colorado-based enterprise social networking platform, raised an additional $5.6M to bring its total capital raise to $7.8M. Grotech Capital Group led the round and Joseph Zell will take a seat on the company’s board.
Since Chris and I are wrapping up our final report to III in Taiwan, I thought I’d share some impressions from the trip we took to Taipei in December. Contracted through the Taiwanese government to meet with startups and counsel them on succeeding in the US market, we met with 12 companies [...]
Continue Reading →You don’t have to spend too much time getting to know me before you learn that I grew up in the 60s and 70s in Pittsburgh. Then, Pittsburgh was a gritty mill town. My favorite field trip was to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which I remember as a [...]
Continue Reading →We try to stay above the fray around here – engaging in back-and-forth with other bloggers doesn’t seem to benefit the reader – but sometimes the posts just write themselves. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, based in Seattle, recently commented on the insularity [...]
Continue Reading →There’s a lot of anger in the air these days. It’s the nature of blogging, I suppose – dash some vitriol off and you’re guaranteed to start a conversation. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; better to generate emotion of any kind than none at all. But it can also be damaging to the very [...]
Continue Reading →A thread — sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious — that weaves through every DEMO conference is the origins of innovation. Among the 70 or so products that debut at the conference, I try to mix some discussion about sources and catalyst for discovery and invention. In preparing for DEMO 08 (Jan [...]
Continue Reading →Gizmodo’s Adam Frucci made me laugh out loud just now when I read his piece on CES, Ten Reasons We’re Doomed. My first piece of advice for him is to investigate a Xanax prescription. Even a good scotch will do. Anything to calm the lather he’s working up over a bloated tradeshow. [...]
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