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Talk is cheap. Talk is so cheap that there’s a new “Startup Community Organizer” organizing their YJASTE (Yet Just Another Startup Community Event) every day. Here’s a tip: We already have the largest Tech Meetup in the country — DC Tech Meetup. We also already have one of the most... Read More
What a year it’s been – it’s a year in which the world lost a Startup Technology Icon. We saw Facebook, the envy of all startups, fall from grace, and the Jersey-Shore-ification of hustlers, hackers, and designers. 2012 will go down as the year of the Wantrepreneur, the Pret-Angel, the Series... Read More
Is Microsoft Innovative? Not as much as they once were. Is Yahoo innovative? How about RIM, or HP. These companies are decades away from their last innovation and all but Microsoft are a few last gasps away from the once innovative corpse of Kodak.What is it about innovative companies that... Read More
If the only way to divine a company’s core values is to read them on their web site, then their core values aren’t core values, they’re marketing hooey. When you say core values and their eyes roll, then you don’t have core values, you have delusions. When revenue at all costs is... Read More
It’s finally here. SXSW 2012. Austin here we come. Wake up 6AM on a Saturday morning to the alarm clock warning for the 8:30 plane to Austin City. It’s just like Monday through Friday. No sleeping, no lazy lounging, no breakfast at 11 on this Saturday... but it’s worth it…..right? …..... Read More
Just a list of things I've been thinking about for a while and couldn’t find a relevant post in which to insert them. To that end I’ve collected them for a regularly scheduled steam blowing rant. By way of explanation a Buy means I’m a strong believer. A... Read More
When Yahoo was Yahoo and Google was a dream, Google proposed that Yahoo use their clearly superior search engine. Yahoo turned them down and showed Larry Page and Sergey Brin the path to riches. You see Yahoo wasn’t interested in a better search. Clicking through pages to find what users... Read More
When Harley wanted to change their logo, thousands of fans who felt so passionate about the brand that they had rendered themselves human billboards protested and Harley retained the old brand.How many companies have created such a strong brand that they’re customers embrace and help them build that brand?How about... 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
Stephen Colbert accuses Siri of being a politically conservative xenophobic personal assistant.The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cConservative Siriwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive... Read More
You know I’m writing this on a cool product. It’s a free download. Runs on my PC and allows me to easily write blogs while on or off-line. It’s compatible with Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and Sharepoint and is so easy to use even a grumpy old caveman can master it... Read More
Product Key A - HP Pavilion dv7 - OS Windows 7 B - Motorola Droid - OS Android 2 C- Motorola Xoom - OS Android D - Sony Viao J - OS Windows 7I'm grumpy old guy, a curmudgeon and yet I'm also a tech guy. While I'm imbued with the heart of an innovator, said heart has been... Read More
David Letterman's top 10 reasons to by an iPad2Letterman's on the original iPad... Read More
There is one hard fact in marketing; markets are fluid and that they evolve.Marketing EvolutionThe first evolution of marketing was born out of necessity. Think the 1950’s; people needed stuff, especially those coming home from war, and so distribution, specifically branding the distribution, became the first focus of broad scale... Read More
Many entrepreneurs believe that the key to success is listening to their customers. That's great advice if you are looking to them for feedback on product quality, your service, your market, your competitors, incremental improvements, their needs. Some companies look to their customers for vision. If the customer isn't asking... Read More
Over 25 years ago a little company called Apple took on one of the largest corporation in the world.....Big Blue, IBM. At the time IBM was the computer behemoth, closely aligned with Intel and a still nascent Microsoft. With the forces of the mega-cartel hammering at their gates, Apple played... Read More
Leadership through inspiration. Steve Job's 2005 Stanford graduation address made all the more poignant in light of the latest announcement of him stepping down from Apple. Insights into life, entrepreneurship and death.... Read More
Lightning in a bottle is the rare mixture of Secret Sauce and execution. What's Apple's Secret Sauce? How about Google's or Facebook's? These companies are evolutionary, not revolutionary. Apple with its iconic iPhone and iPad products is the epitome of execution over secret sauce. Innovation and proprietary IP has not led to... Read More
