It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur. It seems like everywhere you turn, someone, some organization, some company is throwing a party in honor of the starters.
This summer’s newest event is the International Startup Festival (www.startupfestival.com), to be held July 13-15 in beautiful Montreal. The two-day conference focuses on [...]
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 →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’ve spent the last seven days trapped in the house with two sick children, which means I have more links piled up than I know what to do with, and my fuse is shorter than Balloon Boy’s 15 minutes (too soon?). So if I offend anyone, deal with it. This Vortex will [...]
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 →Happy Friday, all. Never fear, a snarky Vortex approacheth. In the meantime, I want to take care of a little business and remind you that DEMOfall is coming up September 21-23 in San Diego and you don’t want to miss it for several reasons:
-60 fantastic new technologies launching
-Chris Shipley’s last [...]
Continue Reading →Sometimes, I don’t exactly know what I think until I read what I’ve said or written in someone else’s media. Such is the case with this interview with TheNextWomen, the London-based media startup that bills itself as the “business magazine for female Internet heroes.”
The site describes [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been an exciting morning around here, with the news of Chris passing the DEMO Executive Producer baton to Matt Marshall and DEMO’s new partnership with Venture Beat. Chris has detailed her personal feelings on leaving DEMO after 13 years, but we also wanted to take a moment to [...]
Continue Reading →Who could ask for a better job? For the past 13 years, I’ve spent my days talking with some of the smartest people on the planet. People passionate about technology and the art and science of molding that technology into products and services that address real challenges and bring new capabilities to people’s lives.
I’d [...]
Continue Reading →Lots o’ links saved up this week. Let’s see if I can adequately sort through them without boring you. No Vortex next week, as Chris and I are headed to London and Dublin for the next round of Innovate!Europe workshops. Pip pip.
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