Month: August 2010

  • Everything I Needed to Know About Entrepreneurship, I learned from Star Wars

    Everything I Needed to Know About Entrepreneurship, I learned from Star Wars

    Star Wars. The original Star Wars. Perhaps those movies were defining films of our time. Though the first title (aptly numbered Star Wars IV) was filmed in the late 1970s, it continues to define movie nerddom today. Of course, Star Wars has seen somewhat of a renaissance due to the licensing of the intellectual property…

  • What Are You Not Telling the World Online?

    What Are You Not Telling the World Online?

    Last year, there was a brilliant preliminary report that came out of MIT where two grad students decided to explore the idea of privacy implications based on omission. In other words, these students said that they could predict, with a high degree of accuracy, the sexual orientation and inclinations of people based on their activities,…

  • The Web Is Passing Most of You By… And You are Asleep

    The Web Is Passing Most of You By… And You are Asleep

    Usually when Dave McClure, Angel Investor and Hustler, has something to say on his blog, it is said with passion, drama, and a pinch of angst. But he’s almost always right and he makes you believe it in the end with unequivocal points and thoughts. Because this post is so utterly important and I firmly…

  • The Milk Machine: Finding Business Focus

    The Milk Machine: Finding Business Focus

    You know how occasionally you remember things from your childhood which seem fairly mundane but end up being a moment of inspiration and, sometimes, an epiphany. I get these things all the time and I guess it just helps me appreciate my childhood even more. Back in the late 70s and early 80s, when I…

  • Owning Bad Publicity

    Owning Bad Publicity

    I remember a few years ago back at Gnomedex in 2007 when Vanessa Fox spoke about owning bad publicity. It wasn’t called that. I can’t remember what I had to eat yesterday, much less what the title of a session at a conference four years ago was. But. I do remember the gist of her…