Novel Concept: UserVoice Has Users, Gets Funding

May 17, 2009

Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products. The founders of UserVoice are serious entrepreneurs; they all live in one home, and work out of a co-working space in Santa Cruz, […]

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Navigating the Capital Markets Chaos

May 13, 2009

I’m listening to Dan Adkinson, managing director of NewStar Finance in Boston. I heard him speak in late 2007, when he predicted the capital market problems that brought down real estate. I came to hear him two years later to see what he thinks now. He is telling the commercial real estate audience and the […]

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Asymmetry in Twitter: A Feature Not a Bug*

May 9, 2009

* Full credit to Tim O’Reilly. OK. Here goes. I’ve been thinking about this all night and all morning. Tim O’Reilly started me  when he said the asymmetry of Twitter was a feature, not a bug in response to my post about the existence of TopFollowed. which I had seen as a way for people […]

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Urban Luxury for Desert Dwellers

May 7, 2009

I haven’t been to a real estate event in a couple of years, so I thought I’d catch up with the market at the Third Annual Urban Living presentation for  the Scottsdale Luxury Home tour. Disclosure: I am a licensed Realtor myself, and I hang my license at a little shop called Infill Realty that […]

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Commenting on the National Broadband Policy

May 5, 2009

Image by Z303 via Flickr I’m trying very hard to figure out how to comment on the proposed national broadband policy. There are so many moving parts to this puzzle that I don’t know where to begin.  But here are a few questions for the experts: 1)What constitutes true broadband? 768kbs is what the proposal […]

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An Expert Weighs in on Facebook Etiquette

May 3, 2009

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What is Yoga? You'd be Surprised

May 2, 2009

A beautiful Friday evening in Phoenix. But I’m not at Happy Hour, I’m laying on my back on a mat in a crowded room in Scottsdale, my right hand on my belly and my left hand on my heart listening to my breath. The guru begins talking about his own life, and how he started […]

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Credit Card Companies Have Their Hands in my Pockets

April 28, 2009

I usually throw stuff from the credit card companies away without reading it. But since the econolypse I’ve had my rates raised for almost nothing: three days late was one excuse for raising my 0% promotional rate to 29.99%. (If I pay “on time” for the next six months it can come down again at […]

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Obama's First 100 Days: Torture, Transparency, and Swine Flu

April 26, 2009

The ‘net has changed everything, from 1)the way we are viewed both by others and by ourselves 2)to how we think about the Somali pirates 3) to how we respond to Swine flu. The world is now a place of transparency, and that can be both exciting and frightening.  After all, as Warren Buffett said, […]

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Ten Companies You Need to Know About

April 24, 2009

When I became involved in the American Biofuels Council three years ago, the push for biofuels was at its highest point in the technology hype cycle. Now, in Arizona, under the aegis of the Desert Biofuels Initiative, a non-profit social venture advancing sustainable regional biofuels,   companies in the state are collaborating to produce and […]

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