THE DREAM IN ACTION

Yossi Vardi announces his plans to build social software for the dead.

I got this picture when I tried to login to Twitter this morning… I was late to join the cult that has become Twitter. At first I thought it was useless. I had a blog already and didn’t need to shrink my blogging. Turns out microblogging is very popular and very useful! It is quickly [...]

“I pitch therefore I am.” This week I read the chapter out of The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki called “The Art of Pitching” (CH3). The chapter is about how an entrepreneur seeking funding from VC’s can optimize his pitch to be most successful. Also, this week I had the first meeting for [...]

Here are five genius pieces of  advice for start-up entrepreneurs. In short: focus, hire passion, it’s a marathon, beware of investors, product perfection. This advice comes from Jonathan Abrams, founder and CEO of Socializr. I first read this advice on the blog of Jason Goldberg founder of Social|Median. Focus is difficult but crucial. Until your [...]

Thanks again Guy for including Ryan A Graves.com on AllTop.com. This is an interview done by David Cohn also found on DigiDave.org. Ryan A Graves.com is found under the Social Media section on Alltop.com.

The popularity of this blog is increasing, hopefully. Or at least it seems like it. Recently, 2 blog aggregation sites have added Ryan A Graves.com to their logs. First, the one that I’m very excited about is AllTop.com a site aggregator that was inspired by PopURLs and ran by Guy Kawasaki. Guy is a an [...]

Tonight I watched the official release of Google’s FriendConnect. I jumped back and forth between Scoble’s and Arrington’s footage of the event via Qik. My take on Qik will be coming in the next few days but for now I want to focus on Google FriendConnect. FriendConnect is basically the commoditization of the social graph. [...]

So you may think that I’m obsessed with Seesmic of late and you’d probably be right. I like it, I think its a great idea with a lot of legs and I think that video on the internet will continue to take up more and more of the web. This video is an interesting take [...]

ActionsTalk as you already may now is going to become a web/entrepreneurship conference and community in the Milwaukee area. The area has incredible technical skills which provides the potential of some great companies and innovations coming out of the area. The missing ingredient here is the collaboration that needs to take place in order for [...]

This is definitely my favorite advice to getting a business started. It is the most difficult thing to do but it is definitely the most action inspiring and results driven advice I’ve heard.

Not that this topic needs anymore analysis or blog posts but… Yahoo has been struggling for a while now. They have some great sites (finance, flickr, etc.) however they are miss managing their resources. Once they went public they created a responsibility to their share holders and now they are not living up to that. [...]