Flying Has Descended to the Depths

December 6, 2011

I have been travelling a lot lately, and it has given me time to reflect on the state of the airline industry (well, the state of British Airways, American Airlines and Southwest). As you probably know, the airline industry is one of the most volatile, least profitable businesses ever. Since 9/11, things have gotten much […]

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Yoga, Business, and the Secret of Everlasting Youth

November 24, 2011

Every time I walk into a yoga class, I realize I’m the oldest person in the room. By a lot. And even when I walk into a business meeting, it’s not unusual for me to be the oldest person in the room. Among my geek friends, also by a lot. And yet, I have yet […]

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Happy Thanksgiving: Food is Just Fuel

November 19, 2011

As we enter the season of non-stop eating, I want you all to share my misery. I have entered the domain of food science, another form of technology. What have I learned? After a long life of striving to get asymptotically close to a good diet, I finally made myself totally miserable by getting even […]

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How to Make Your Business More Successful

November 10, 2011

Most businesses fail because they run out of money. And most business owners blame their failure on the length of the sales cycle, the markets, a recession, the VCs, the employees who don’t have a work ethic, the tax structure — there are a litany of outside forces. Many startups may be about to fail […]

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The New Gmail and Your Grandma

November 8, 2011

As an early adopter, I sit in front of new software and new apps every day. I look mostly for things that will help the startups and small businesses we coach at Stealthmode.So of course I manually switched to the new look at Gmail, after playing with the new look for Google Reader. While many […]

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Up, Up and Away

October 29, 2011

There are a few opportunities that come up once in a lifetime, so when I was invited on a zeppelin flight out of Moffett Field in San Jose, I put aside the momentary thought that I lived in Phoenix and just made a plane reservation to go with my friends for a ride.. And what […]

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Angel Investing Bootcamp Encourages Women to Invest $100k in For-Profit Social Venture

October 20, 2011

I’ve been a mentor for the Pipeline Fellowship since it began, and on my trip to NYC this week I was happy to hear Natalia’s geat news: the first class of women angels, ten in all, was graduating and had invested $50,000 in a woman-owned startup. Another $50,000 to match it had been invested by […]

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Why Mainstream Media Can’t Understand OWS

October 16, 2011

Although i live in Arizona, i was in New York this weekend and i went to show my support for OccupyWallStreet. it was one of the most exciting things i have seen in my life, for as i suspected, this movement is not about left and right, it is about up and down. But it […]

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Why I Will Occupy Wall Street

October 15, 2011

I thought the students would never wake up. The cost of college has been rising for thirty years,  the need for science and math skills is also rising, and we have an entire generation mismatched for the available jobs. Occupy Wall Street is a great awakening to how the growth of education as an industry financed […]

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Flowtown Acquired by DemandForce: Congrats Dan and Ethan

October 14, 2011

The following is an expression of joy more than journalism. Flowtown has been acquired by DemandForce, the number one small business marketing company. The details are on Ethan’s blog. Suffice it to say here that they received a funding round 13 months ago, had to do a pivot as a result of one of Facebook‘s TOS changes, […]

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