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1 May 2007 Comments Off

Writing for B5 Media – Come on over to Startup Spark

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. [...]

23 January 2007 3 Comments

Social Networking Trends: Social Travel

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 [...]

31 August 2006 Comments Off

Innovation Nation – The changing business landscape

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 [...]

25 April 2006 2 Comments

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

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 [...]

29 March 2006 Comments Off

Startup Profile: CollectiveX

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 [...]

15 March 2006 8 Comments

DC 2.0 Conference – The Web 2.0 Community in DC

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 [...]