I need to get back to personal blogging, it’s really nice to read back on. I’m excited for this weekend. Â I’ve been sick for the past week (since last Friday) and it’s time for something a little more cheery. Â Here’s the rundown of what I’ve got planned: brunch at my Continue Reading
Tomorrow (December 8th) I’ll be speaking at Parisoma Innovation Loft following the live broadcast of day two of the TED Women event. Â When I was invited to speak, I was honored. Â TED is about “ideas worth spreading” and not a platform for talking about my startup, which suits me just Continue Reading
Congratulations to TechCrunch, who announced yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt that they have been acquired by AOL. I’ve been reading TechCrunch since before I knew I was going to do startups. Â It all started because my friend Blake Scholl was doing a startup, and I set up Google Reader to track Continue Reading
How would you like to have a program that helps you write blog posts faster? Â With Google Scribe I can do just that. Â In this post, I will use the suggestions from Google Scribe to generate some content about social media. Social media is finally about the media in the Continue Reading
Wait… what? This quote from Steve Blank (which I realize is taken out of context, but such is the nature of Twitter, I’m not sure where he was speaking today) definitely rubs the marketer in me the wrong way. Â Why would you ever want to exclude marketing and sales folks Continue Reading
My beloved side project TweetToCall recently turned one year old, and I’ve been procrastinating on re-styling it to look more like a Web 2.0 service and less like a weekend project. Â This post on TechCrunch tonight about the death of phone numbers motivated me to give it an hour of Continue Reading
“Dare You To Move” by Switchfoot “Secrets” by One Republic
I’ve been writing a lot of starts to posts these past two weeks – but nothing that feels fit to publish (yet). Here’s a teaser of some of the topcis I’ve been mulling over, I’d be curious to hear which of these (if any) interest you: Startup Stuff No One Continue Reading
Today we heard an excellent talk from Yaron Brook about the importance of defending capitalism, and he ended his speech with a rousing call to action for the audience. “I’m willing to put it all on the line, are you?” People stood and clapped, but I left the room wondering Continue Reading
One great aspect of Objectivist Conferences is the opportunity to ask questions of the intellectuals presenting their ideas, immediately following their talks. Coming up with a thoughtful question can add depth to the topic, and help express misunderstandings that might be shared by a lot of the attendees listening. However, Continue Reading