Why I Avoided CES This Year

January 15, 2012

I didn’t go to CES2012, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t touch my life. First, why didn’t I go?  For fifteen years, starting in 1997 when I was at Intel, I had gone. After the one year in which I had to man the Intel booth with my colleagues, every year I have trotted through miles and […]

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Pity the Billionaire: An Unlikely Refrain

January 11, 2012

After watching the (predictable) results of the New Hampshire Primary, I can only conclude that Americans are sheep, or that things in the country at large are not as bad as the loudmouths have been saying. The Tea Party has largely vanished as an articulate force, having blended into the Republican Party. And the Occupy […]

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Phoenix Entrepreneurial Community is Worth Looking At

January 7, 2012

This time of year, everyone comes to Phoenix. They come for the Phoenix Open Golf Tournament, the Barrett Jackson Car Auction, and a host of other tourist-related events. They never notice the startup ecosystem. This angers me. They drop money all over town, except on what really matters: the innovation that’s desperately trying to stay […]

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10 Steps to Beginner Brand Building

January 5, 2012

So you’ve made the resolution that in 2012 you are finally going to “get into” social media and use it to build a brand for yourself or your business. You’re not a geek, and you’re not with a big corporation that already has a social media team or a fairly savvy marketing department. For you, […]

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Entrepreneurship as a Job

January 5, 2012

If you don’t already know how, you had better learn how to write and how to code. And how to be an entrepreneur. A  new article in MIT Technology Review tells you why: new research is showing that advances in workplace automation are being deployed at a faster pace than ever, making it more difficult […]

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New EU Data Privacy Laws Affect All of Us

January 3, 2012

Privacy may not be dead, especially in the EU, where new privacy laws have been drafted and are expected to be enacted soon. The Europeans are not fans of Mark Zuckerberg’s theory that people want to share everything, or of Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy is dead.   My friend Jeff Jarvis travels a bit […]

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FreeScore.com is a Fraud

January 2, 2012

It’s rare that I encounter out and out fraud, but I think I saw it this morning, and I am writing because the perpetrator, FreeScore, is a partner of Trulia and I think Trulia needs to know.

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Avoid the Mistakes I Made With My Blog

December 29, 2011

Marcus Nelson asked the question “if you were just starting to blog, what would you do differently”  over on G+ today.   Sub-questions were: how do you start, what platform do you use, and what do you write about. This question put me into orbit. Start? You start by having so much to say and […]

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2012 Predictions From a Futurist

December 22, 2011

Writing predictions is always/never fun, because you take a moon shot in advance and can always turn out to be wrong. That being said, I try never to predict things I don’t already know something about, and then I try to spread word about what’s coming to people who aren’t expert in what I’m predicting. […]

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Silicon Valley Envy Plagues World Capitals

December 16, 2011

Well, it wasn’t GeeksonaPlane, but the past ten days have given me another lesson on the global startup culture. I spent three days in Paris at LeWeb, and then a week in London. And everywhere it is the same: smart, wonderful people with good ideas and Silicon Valley envy. Anywhere outside Silicon Valley, for all […]

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