My First Computer Was an Apple II

October 5, 2011
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Apple Without Jobs is Like a Ship Without a Rudder

October 4, 2011

The Apple announcement today was like  90 minutes of foreplay with no orgasm. Here we are going into Christmas with no products we can’t do without. No iPhone 5, and no new IPad. And I already have a Nano watch. That being said, yes, I am going to get the iPhone 4s, but not because […]

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Maricopa Entrepreneurship Accelerator Grad Launches

September 27, 2011

Not every entrepreneur we coach is a geek. Here’s a cool video about one of our participants who had to pivot several times before getting his aquarium store open. I hope he does really well; he’s passionate about kids, fish, and local shopping.

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Facebook’s Latest Changes: How to Navigate Them

September 23, 2011

Ordinary people and small businesses using Facebook are going to come to grips with two new terms after the big announcements Mark Zuckerberg made today at f8, the Facebook Developer conference. The first is “self-expression,” which means your friends will know a lot more about what you read, what music you listen to, and even […]

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My New Facebook Developer Timeline

September 22, 2011

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My New Facebook Developer Timeline

September 22, 2011

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Changing the World: Local Food Startups

September 17, 2011

The best startups begin because the founders see a big problem for which they want to find a disruptive solution. They don’t begin because the founder wants to make money; they are a response to a founder’s desire to change the world. If they make money, so be it. Starbucks began as an effort to […]

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Oh No! Google+ Releases API

September 15, 2011

“We are making this so simple even my mother can use it.” That charming phrase was uttered at TCDisrupt yesterday by the co-founder of Bitcasa.com, a storage service company. Thankfully, Paul Carr  reminded the audience that this is probably the last generation that will ever be able to use their mothers as fall guys. As […]

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Startup Opportunities in Health IT

September 7, 2011

Health care, long ignored by VCs who didn’t understand it, is now so obviously broken that it can’t be ignored, Rock Health, the crusading seed incubator in San Francisco where I’m a mentor , has done a  study of VC-funded healthcare startups. According to Rock Health’s survey, which is admittedly incomplete, 35 companies have received $2 […]

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Wednesdays.com Launch is…Just a Launch

August 29, 2011

My friends at Wednesdays.com launched last week into a blaze of YCombinator Demo Days, Steve Jobs’ retirement, and for good measure, Hurricane Irene coverage. In short, they didn’t get the “Tech Crunch effect.” Thank God for that; they’re lucky they didn’t, because the Tech Crunch effect, often also called “the Scoble effect,” is both distracting […]

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