Writing for B5 Media – Come on over to Startup Spark

May 1, 2007

Hello all, just wanted to let you know that I have been offered an opportunity to write for a great blog on the B5 Media Network.
The blog is called Startup Spark and is similar to Venture Files but is a broader version on all types of entrepreneurship.
I invite you to check it out and subscribe. [...]

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Social Networking Trends: Social Travel

January 23, 2007

Social travel is a new movement in the travel sector that is taking advantage of the Web 2.0 concept.
Just in case you’re not familiar with Web 2.0, the first round of web technologies, Web 1.0, was mostly read-only, while Web 2.0 is enabled for massive read-write capabilities. Two things make this possible: rich web technologies [...]

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Innovation Nation – The changing business landscape

August 31, 2006

Here is my weekly column “Innovation Nation” syndicated from “The Deal Maker”. The original article can be found here.
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Innovation Nation: Nucleus for a new weekly column
By Steven Fisher
I would like to welcome you to this new column on “The Deal Maker” called Innovation Nation. So you know who this crazy guy [...]

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Now here is a business I want to have – Base Assumption

April 25, 2006

Tom Evslin has written what I think is the real distruptive model in consumer communications.
He calls it Base Assumption and if you are thinking of starting a business and love infrastructure – this is it.
Here is an excerpt:
“Within four years, possibly three, free WiFi will be available on the streets of every American city.� Building [...]

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Startup Profile: CollectiveX

March 29, 2006

Recently, there is a new player to emerge in the arena of social networking.
Michael Arrington did a nice review a few weeks ago.
It is called CollectiveX.
It is what LinkedIn should have been.
It is essentially a group communications and member networking platform.
It has the potential to become a “Social Network Integrator” which is an intriguing concept [...]

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DC 2.0 Conference – The Web 2.0 Community in DC

March 15, 2006

Here right now at an event called DC 2.0 and it is focused on discussing the Web 2.0 community here in the Washington DC area. There is a strong showing of at least 60 people with very little marketing and it is comprised of innovative companies, venture capitalists and smart people like your humble correspondent.
It [...]

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Startup Profile: Edgeio

March 7, 2006

Much has been written about Edgeio these days.
Some call it Craigslist 2.0 or eBay 2.0.
It is run by Mike Arrington at Tech Crunch and it has money from angels.
I agree with Om Malik that there might not be much more to add to the conversation.
Pete Cashmore at Mashable has this to say about it.
Stowe Boyd [...]

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Startup Profile: PodBop

March 1, 2006

For those who want to be more productive by finding out what is going on their city music-wise, I suggest you visit PodBop.
My friend Greg at the Trend Junkie just wrote about it and I love this thing.
It is a “Mashup” (two applications leveraged to create a new one) and it is very cool and [...]

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Vlogging companies are starting to emerge

February 21, 2006

Last week there was an event called Under the Radar that put on an event highlighting four video blogging companies.�
It was titled “Vlogging, TV, and the New War for Eyeballs,” the event included presentations by:

Dabble
FireAnt
Grouper
VideoEgg

I know the guys at FireANT and if you like video podcasts or vlogs, you MUST download FireANT. It has serious [...]

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The Blogging of DEMO

February 14, 2006

Last week saw an amazing amount of products at the granddaddy of product launch sesssion, DEMO.
DEMO 2006 had a raft of bloggers covering the event.
I really liked TechCrunch’s coverage and Jeff Clavier’s reviews of the companies.
My favorites? Riya, .Zingee, Ugobe, MooBella and Multiverse
Just go to those sites and check them out for yourselves.
Do you think [...]

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You’ve been Tagged – The Game

February 13, 2006

My friend, Leslie Jump, who writes MarketerBlog, connected me with this.
Her list is here.
For those of you that like to publish these things, I thought I would do mine as an example.
Here you go:
4 Jobs I’ve HadCEO of a failed startupCEO of a successful startupDirector of MarketingNetwork Engineer
4 Movies I Can Watch Over & OverRiver [...]

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