Respect The Power Of A Deadline
If you’ve ever shipped anything, you understand the power of a deadline. It’s incredibly helpful to me as an investor to also be a maker, as I get to experience the same pressure many of the people...
View ArticleBook Review: Makers By Chris Anderson
I took two flights across the country this week so in addition to a lot of catching up on email, I read a book. It is called Makers and it was written by Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson. This is...
View ArticleWhy antitrust lawsuits fail
This week, news that the FTC is looking to go after Google for antitrust violation started seeping out. The concern, according the reports, is that Google has built such a strong business in the...
View ArticleThe Argo election
The release of Argo — a wonderful film — comes ever so coincidentally a month before the presidential election and a month after the murders of our diplomats in Bengazi. It’s timing that can be...
View ArticleShark Tank Season 4 week 5 breakdown
Time for a breakdown of week 5 of season 4 of Shark Tank! I’ve been getting good feedback from people who enjoy getting an insight into how a VC thinks about an investment opportunity, and being able...
View ArticlePublic Sharing vs Private Sharing
Alexis Madrigal has an interesting post up on The Atlantic about "dark social" vs "public social". Alexis makes the point that private sharing via email, IM, and other means drives more traffic around...
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10 Forums Every Young Entrepreneur Should Belong To
Here are 10 forums every young entrepreneur should belong to. Young Entrepreneur This is the ideal forum for any entrepreneur seeking information, help, ideas or feedback. Being an active member of...
View ArticleF%^$ and f*&^%$#
As Amy and I continue to crank away on Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur, I learned a funny, perplexing, and strange thing. There apparently is an editorial...
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GAME-CHANGER IN US WIRELESS: Softbank Buys 70% Of Sprint
Softbank and Sprint have reached a deal under which Softbank will pay $20 billion for a 70 percent stake in the wireless telecom operator, according to people close to the situation. The deal is...
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REPORT: Amazon In Talks To Buy Texas Instruments' Mobile Chip Business
Amazon in talks to buy Texas Instruments' mobile chip arm:TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest Internet retailer, is in advanced talks to buy the mobile chip business of Texas...
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Kumo Lumo Review (iPhone, iPad)
It's fair to say that mobile gamers get the short end of the stick when it comes to gaming surprises, with timid, refined versions of existing titles dominating the App Store. Kumo Lumo is different...
View ArticleHow To Be In Business Forever: Week Three
It is week three of my Skillshare class on Sustainability in Business. I will be doing office hours today at 6pm eastern. You can watch them here on this link. If you want to submit questions for...
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Pilot! Review (iPhone, iPad)
There aren't many games on the App Store that have divided gamer opinion quite like Pilot. For some it's a sedate and hypnotic time-filler, while for others it's the embodiment of freemium evil that...
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Marvel War Of Heroes: Everything We Know
As we reported at the end last week, Marvel War of Heroes missed its expected Thursday release date for reasons unknown. It hasn't dampened our enthusiasm for the new superhero card-battling game...
View ArticleHere's A 3-Step Program That Will Turn Twitter Into An Ad Giant
All of this talk of Twitter’s aspiration to becoming a media company is a red herring. Media companies supply the nut (content) inside the shell – Twitter wants to be the shell. Does that make Twitter...
View ArticleIs The iPad Making Men Effeminate?
Purses are a sensitive subject. Murses even more so. The other week, I was in a restaurant when my friend Ariane ballistically assaulted a man because he had placed his clutch on the bar. It was a...
View ArticleApple Vs. Google Is The Most Important Battle In Tech
In the 1990s, Microsoft Internet Explorer battled Netscape Navigator in the great Web-browser wars. In the 2000s, Google and Yahoo locked horns over Internet search — and we know how that turned out....
View ArticleStart the presses
A set of very happy announcements from the CUNY Journalism School and the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism: * First, we are opening the new Cuny Journalism Press. Yes, I said press. On...
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Asphalt 7: Heat Vs. Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed
We can almost taste the fumes of the upcoming iOS game Need for Speed Most Wanted, but a quiet contender to EA's racing throne has been taking the charts by storm this year. Mobile racing fans will...
View ArticleBig data is useless unless it’s also fast, diverse
The big data revolution is in its early innings, and it is about to get even more exciting. This week, I wrote a guest post for GigaOm that discusses the disruptive innovations that are helping make...
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