iPhone4 Beautiful, But Not Worth 6.5 Hour Wait in 110f heat

June 24, 2010

I’m limp, collapsed on my couch with my new iPhone4 after waiting in line at the Apple Store at Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix this morning. I went out there at 7 AM and got my phone at 1:23 PM. In between, Apple provided pizza, cookies, water, umbrellas against the hot sun, and  breakfast bars. [...]

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Six Reasons Small Businesses Need WordPress

June 17, 2010

I have been thinking quite a bit about WordPress lately, because I’m preparing a speech about “The Business of WordPress” to give at a conference by the same name in Atlanta next week. And in looking through my own blog and the AZEC10 site, I have come to a number of somewhat startling conclusions. These [...]

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The Future of Entrepreneurship: Not only Outside Silicon Valley, But Outside the US

June 9, 2010

“In 1998, 3.4 million Chinese attended university. In 2008, the number was 21.5 million. Once a privilege for a select few, college education has defined a generational experience in China.”
These numbers come from an excellent presentation by Frank Yu, who tried to put it up on Slideshare, but in accordance with the mysterious ways of [...]

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Just a Day of Tourism

June 3, 2010

Orchard Road is the main shopping district of Singapore, although I’d say the entire city-state is one big mall. Singapore is a major port, and you can see goods on display from all over the world here. And they are not cheap! This is not a bargain-hunter’s dream, like Bangkok or Shanghai. It’s a place [...]

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What You Need to Know About Social Games

June 1, 2010

Moving from Seoul to Singapore takes the geeks to a small market that’s quite evolved, and to the most comprehensive Asian tech conference yet, Echelon 2010. Here, i learn that one of the largest web markets, social games, is already controlled by Asia.
After hanging with Joi Ito at Hackerspace Sg and listening to two days [...]

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Who Knows What’s Up in the Mobile Internet Space in Russia? GOAP

May 27, 2010

In Beijing at GMIC I am listening to a Russian Internet entrepreneur (iFree) tell us how his company, a Russian portal developer, is shifting strategy for the growth of mobile platforms.
He begins by saying that of the 142 million people in the former Soviet Union, only 43m are on the Internet. The use of [...]

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China Mobile Internet Conference and GeeksonaPlane

May 26, 2010

I am coming to the conclusion that China doesn’t need us. Last night, a star-studded panel of expats and Chinese-American returnees basically let us know that they had it under control. they simply got the big ideas from us, took them to China, and executed on them.This was the kickoff evening of the China Mobile [...]

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China Can Be Scary

May 25, 2010

China is really frightening. Having spent the last three days meeting with Chinese startups and investors, I can see how their culture could easily eat our lunch. it is still difficult and expensive to get wi-fi here, so I will briefly summarize my thoughts and refer you to this presentation by Benjamin Joffee that tells [...]

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Geeks on a Plane: Shanghai

May 23, 2010

Geeks on a Plane is a trip that seeks to bridge cultural differences by focussing around the common interests of technology and entrepreneurship. There are about fifty of us, from all over the world, gathered in Shanghai to meet the local technologists and Investors and compare notes. We. Leave Shanghai tomorrow for Beijing, Seoul and [...]

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Coalition Government vs Two Party Politics

May 20, 2010

Rand Paul, an otherwise educated man, blew himself up last night trying to be true to his small government, free enterprise views. He allowed Rachel Maddow to drag out of him the fact that he believed it was the right of a private business to segregate it’s facilities. A Muslim woman who wrote a book [...]

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