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 →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 →There is so much to share from this week that I’m literally giddy. In such a busy week, though, there have been no standout tweets. I may just nominate myself. We’ll see how I feel at the end of the post.
News from the Social Media Vortex
-Hutch Carpenter developed a handy chart to delineate [...]
Continue Reading →As Co-Founder and CEO of Guidewire Group, I usually let Chris and Carla do the blogging, but something happened this week at DEMOfall that inspired me to pen this first post.
When Chris and I founded Guidewire Group, we did so because we believed that there was an enormous opportunity [...]
Continue Reading →I’m excited to see so many new faces at DEMOfall this week. In fact, this is the biggest DEMOfall event we’ve ever had. Most importantly, it’s just the size we like it: Lots of great people to meet without overwhelming crowds and noise. Seventy-two amazing companies and products from across a very broad spectrum of [...]
Continue Reading →One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten.
As I was growing up, my mother instructed me that, when I got angry or frustrated, to count to ten before saying anything. Quite honestly, I’ve counted to ten ten-times over. I’ve bitten my tongue and clenched my teeth and I’ve really tried to let [...]
Continue Reading →In a week that should be the buildup to an onslaught of significant tech news, I’m just a bit weary this morning. After a long weekend away from the computer, I logged on to the same old, tired posts about TechCrunch and DEMO and which would overthrow the other.
Every reporter and blogger in the [...]
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