THE DREAM IN ACTION

This is from the interview between Jason Calacanis and Mark Cuban at TC50: JC: Who’s the entrepreneur you respect most? Current or past? MC: I guess Bill Gates. Larry Ellison I respect. You know, old school entrepreneurs, it was just diffferent. There was a different crede. I used to want to be profitable every month, [...]

There are about a billion blog posts about Yammer winning TC50 and how and what they do. I’m not here to repeat those. As you well know, one thing that I am a huge fan of is not just tech but the productive application of technology. Tech with a purpose! I wanted to re-post something [...]

My girlfriends room mate, Maggie (who I love), made this picture of me. She knows how handy I am…

*click on the pic to watch live This afternoon I watch the BearHug Camp hosted by Steve Gillmor.  The event was focused on the progress of the micro-blogging space. One of the main topics of conversation was around live search of the Twitter data. Currently there is nothing that is “real time” and for political [...]

As I continue on my quest to better understand venture capital the question arises of, what is the difference between angel investing and venture capital? I’ve found there are many; involvement, who’s money, what stage, what size, required performance post investment, type of person, etc. The differences are practically endless so I’ll try to address [...]

I submitted this to a contest to get a “free ride” to attend the ThinkTank conference in San Diego. The question was, why would you add value to the conference. Here’s why… (I hope I didn’t get to this to late, as I just found out about ThinkTank today) I care about start ups: When [...]

I was going to leave today’s posts with just the image of the towers and the message of “We will always remember”. After watching this video filmed and directed by Vinvin and Giselle of the Seesmic crew I couldn’t not help but post it. I won’t try and describe it because I will not do [...]

In this consumer web market of free, free, free there aren’t many things that you have to pay for. I use and am on the web A LOT and currently Flickr is the only web service that I pay for. I have a pro account so that I upload as many photos as I want [...]

Last night I had the pleasure of having an extended conversation with the CTO of GE Healthcare, Nevin Zimmermann, about CEO’s and what they are able to accomplish with a given company. We talked about the past CEO of GE Healthcare, Joe Hogan, and the current CEO of GE Healthcare, John Dineen, and their differences. [...]

Last night I watch much of the Ustream live streaming of TechCrunch 50. Among many viable companies launched and presented was Ashton Kutcher’s new celeb blog/show called Blahgirls.  After watching a few of the videos and reading a few of the blog posts (which are basically celeb photos with images of little girls) I am [...]

At GE we are trained to look at any process with 2 words in mind, LEAN and Digitize. Take a process, simplify it first, then digitize the simplified process. This start-up, dropcard, follows that GE mantra perfectly. The process is simple: You log-in to set-up your personal and professional contact information, then with just one [...]

Tonight I watch the interview between Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, and Peter Thiel, once PayPal CEO and current Facebook board member. Thiel is sharp and the interview was great. One of the most interesting questions was, “what is the best startup success predictor?” Thiel’s response: The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it [...]

You all know that I’m a huge fan of these seed funding start-up incubators (Y-Combo, TechStars) . I’ve talked with a few of the TechStars entrepreneurs for ActionsTalk and the experience seems incredibly valuable for all parties (start-up founders, investors, users of the products developed). If for no other reason than, I’m jealous, I wanted [...]

“Clean technology, clean power is going to be the next great global industry…it simply has to be.” This is the promo video for Thomas Friedman’s new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded.  The sentence above serves as the summary of this book and in my opinion will prove to be one of the largest issues facing [...]