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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An Entrepreneur’s View: 5 Things Digg needs to do or it will die in 2008

February 27, 2007

I was guest blogging for my friend Aaron Brazell who writes Technosailor. We live near each other and run into each other at Starbucks living the Bedoin lifestyle.
We talk alot about the techology scene and I made the comment that Digg would be dead or made irrelevant by next year. So he challenged me to [...]

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Welcome to Thunderdome: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on stage at the D Conference

February 20, 2007

When I read that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were going to be on stage together doing joint appearance at D:All Things Digital, the Mad Max movie came to mind.
My mind kept echoing….”Two men enter. One man leaves. Two men enter. One man leaves.”
Unrehearsed and unscripted? This is rare and should be a memorable event.
This [...]

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Social Networking 4.0 – Meta Social Networks

February 13, 2007

Social Networking has gone through three phases so far and I firmly believe that we are at the beginning of the fourth phase.
I refer to these first three phrases from Dave Hornik’s seminal blog entry “Social Networks 3.0” written in December 2005. I accept his interpretation of the first three phrases as follows:
Social Networks 1.0 [...]

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Is the “Cult of Apple” really a cult? – Part 2

February 5, 2007

In the first part of this post I was talking about an article called “The 8 Marks of a Cult” and took with a sense of humor how Apple might size up to this analysis originally written in 1961.
So let’s take the remaining 4 Marks and see how they shape up…
Mark #5 – The “Sacred [...]

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Is the “Cult of Apple” really a cult? – Part 1

February 2, 2007

As an avid Mac user and a new convert to all things Apple, I have experienced the RDF (Reality Distortion Field) first hand at MacWorld last year during the key note when Steve Jobs launched of the MacBook Pro (which I am using right now).
I have seen many books on the “Cult of Mac” or [...]

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The Technology Cold War is OVER – Apple and Microsoft are truly competing again…FINALLY!!

January 17, 2007

The nucleus of this article came from the recent Macworld theme “The First 30 Years where just the Beginning”.
It got me thinking how the next 30 years will be after looking the last 30 years roller coaster ride.
After decompressing from all the CES and Macworld activity, two very basic things occurred to me:
1.) The “War [...]

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Bubble, Bubble, Bubble. – In Private Equity not Web 2.0

January 16, 2007

Being a serial entrepreneur I have been through many business cycles, but the Internet boom of the late 1990’s was an extremely heady time. People were so enamored with what the Internet could do, every one really believed that the old rules didn’t apply.
The reality was that those rules applied more than ever and with [...]

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Analyzing the Keynotes: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

January 16, 2007

This is fascinating. I was thinking of doing an analysis of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates keynotes. I watched them both and their styles are so different.
Steve Jobs is the modern day PT Barnum. His charm is high and his enthusiasm is contagious.
Bill’s Keynote was tired and a bit boring with skit like demonstrations. The [...]

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iPhone Lawsuit – Kettle? Please meet the pot.

January 10, 2007

I find it ironic that during the Macworld Keynote yesterday where Steve Jobs boasted about the 200 patents for the iPhone and how they would enforce them that they get a lawsuit for the one thing they couldn’t protect.
So Kettle, please meet the pot. It will be a fun topic of discussion and give Apple [...]

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Maryland is upping their startup game

January 8, 2007

As an entrepreneur in the MD/DC/Northern VA area, I am glad to see this from a press release yesterday:
The Greater Baltimore Technology Council (GBTC) said on Monday that it is partnering with the Kauffman Foundation to make Kauffman eVenturing — a web site created specifically for
entrepreneurs — available for the first time to Maryland entrepreneurs. [...]

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