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I’m thankful that lots of current lists show that DC is a crappy startup city. Because who wants to be a good startup city when you could be something a top Maui-like city. Unfortunately DC came in in the bottom five of most Maui-like cities in the world according to... Read More
I've been secretly hard at work designing my next-next-big-thing startup and I'm ready to announce it to the world. Here's the begining of my investor presentation for my new company. Ladies and gentelmen..... Introducing........BREIFER! Call me if you'd like to invest! Call now and I'll throw in a bridge in Brooklyn. Stay tuned for... Read More
When I was a single guy I was not a clothes hound. I know, no surprise, right? TJ Max, Target, CVS, those were my haberdasheries. Then I got married and the woman whom I love, the very same woman that beleived the ladies of "Sex In The City" were shoe... Read More
This company is amazing, that company is doing amazing things, that guy is amazing. The superlative amazing is just so abused. It’s overused on the DCTech Facebook Group page, it just might be used more often in InTheCapital articles than punctuation marks. Here there and everywhere you see amazingly abusive... Read More
I’m here to announce that the "Next Big Thing" is not mobile apps, it’s not social, it’s not big data. Nope, the next paradigm-shifting, game-changing, sea-changing, blue-ocean market is Taco Technology (no doubt using lean startup concepts in their lean beef).First the Tacocopter (which unfortunately was a hoax) and now... Read More
One of the signs that you’re near a bubble is when stories that could only be found in the Onion are being covered by the “legitimate” Media. File this one under when stupid ideas meet cutting edge technology.Just what the world needs…. Tacocopter has announced their private beta for customers... Read More
So one of my favorite people bitched about my 2011 Deep Thoughts post being a disappointment and I couldn't agree with him more. So in an effort to redeem myself, I thought I'd dedicate a Deep Thought post to the almost too comical to be true political situation. In last week's Washington DC Ice... Read More
Imagine if Amazon.com did more than just sell you stuff. Imagine that they manufactured and delivered stuff. Imagine that they competed with other ecommerce sites like Overstock, manufacturers like Sony and Cannon, and shippers like FedEx and UPS. It would be a miracle if they excelled at any of those... Read More
It's Annual List time which means it's time for my second annual Top Ten Deepest Thoughts of 2011. Crowded House - There are more mobile apps and web sites addressing food, including dining out sites, food trucks, recipe's than there are people who eat food. Voter Registration - There are more mobile... Read More
So I've really been working hard thinking about my next startup and I have a few great ideas I'd like to run past my readers to help me focus on the one that is most likely to bear fruit. Please let me knew which one of these super awesome concepts... Read More
Management theorists profess the value of personality assessments, like Myers Briggs, as useful hiring and team-building tools. If you are not familiar with them, these tools are helpful for assessing a person’s ability to perform in specific roles. Personality testing can ensure that companies have a well coordinated team, and it helps managers... Read More
As a leader, you get the culture you tolerate. Take Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise for example. Why do you think Aliens were always taking over his ship? Why do you think that in the three years Kirk lead the enterprise across the galaxy he lost 13.7% of his... Read More
Avis use to sell against #1 rental car firm Hertz by bragging that they were #2 and because of that they tried harder. If that’s the case RIM, the maker of the former Crackberry-turned-Elderberry, BlackBerry has to make herculean efforts to please because they're lucky if they're # 4.Yet according... Read More
You know most great artists sacrificed, suffered, invested in their art before it paid off.I remember that the first opportunity I had to make a significant contribution to a meaningful organization with the requisite significant ownership stake... joining that club of vested team members came at a cost. I took a 65%... Read More
Last week’s Tech Cocktails Startup Mixology Conference featured two panel discussions that couldn’t have been more different. I had the pleasure of mediating a session, Necessary Legal Paperwork, with 3 bright corporate attorneys, Sue Wang of Clarity Law, Steve Kaplan of Pillsbury Law, and Geoff Willard of Virtual Law Partners.... Read More
Many people will argue that the thermos is the greatest invention of all time because the darn thing has the basic intelligence to determine that some items are to be kept cold whilst other items are to be kept hot. How does it know? Well I'm here to tell you... Read More
I can't spell. No really, I've had bosses who think I'm stupid, teachers who thought I'm lazy, parents who looked to heaven for guidance. I just can't spell. You can tell me that relief is spelled, r - e - l - i - e - f, as much as... Read More
(As Seen On Tech Cocktail) Quick! Name the 5 items on the right and describe how they are used. Bad news for those who got all 5 answers correct. You’re an old dog! Archeologists and sociologists mourn the loss of culture, artwork, forgotten science, and dead languages, so they were excited when the Rosetta Stone was discovered. ... Read More
I was having a conversation last week with one of DCs early tech entrepreneurs and he mentioned that he just completed a pivot with his latest company. Now I couldn't help but notice that this generational-contemporary of mine had just uttered one of those new-fangled, pants-around their knees, hipster-generation,... Read More
Salacious BreadI'm going to make a prediction here and that is that this essay will get more hits than any other that I have written and not just because I use the term "porn star," right here in this sentence. Nope, the fact that I mention Sex, Drugs, Scandal and... Read More
If you were a tech start-up entrepreneur or VC in 1995 and you didn't have a Palm Pilot, than you weren't a tech entrepreneur or a VC, you were just pretending to be one. If you were raising money on Sand Hill road and you handed a VC a business... Read More
Mark this date because this may be the first original thought that I've had this century.Facebook, Twitter, Groupon.... Why go public when you can have liquidity and avoid the short-term, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately, investors that demand companies perform unnatural, long-term, harmful acts for the sake of this quarter's number and at the... Read More
Raise your hand if you've been in this audience with me when this happened. There's a CTO from a big company doing a presentation. He's talking, you're listening, the audience around you are all nodding their heads. This guy on the podium owns them. You keep listening and you keep... Read More
OK, all the credible media and bloggers have published their top ten lists of 2010, so now that the best have gone, it's time for the rest.Welcome to my first Annual list of My Top 10 Deepest Thoughts of 2010Deep Thought #10My eureka moment:I saw a beggar picking the pennies... Read More
SEO, SEO, SEO, SEO, that's all I hear these days. For you other old farts like me that's Search Engine Optimization. What that means according to Wikipedia's Search Optimized SEO Definitions listing is:Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page... Read More
I was introduced to the Tesla yesterday. What a car. Beautiful design. Sumptuous interior. 0 - 60 MPH in 3.6 seconds. 250 miles on an electric charge and only K for a battery that has to be replaced every 7 years (the car is 0K, batteries included). Only two problems with... Read More
