On February 25th I put up a justSignal Tracker for Demo 09. I had fun today watching the tracker (you can find it here) reel off all the tweets about Demo and the presentations as they happened. With all due respect to Demo and Facebook the experience with the Facebook Connect widget was, by comparison,… Continue reading justSignal Demo 09 Demo – Have your data and eat it too!
Tag: innovator
You just don’t get me…
The thing about innovation – is that it really isn’t innovation if everyone you pitch it to immediately “gets it”. Which creates a nice piece of circular logic – I’m innovating, so no one will understand. Since no one understands I must be innovating. Which is – as my grandmother used to say – happy… Continue reading You just don’t get me…
What did you do last weekend?
I hope you had fun. I was at Phoenix Startup Weekend working with a team of smart, energized people to create a new company in a single weekend. The result – Reserve Chute – is sheer genius. This one time, at Phoenix Startup Weekend (http://phoenix.startupweekend.com) actually held in Chandler, AZ, a band of brothers, and… Continue reading What did you do last weekend?
Can we please stop talking about monetization?
I can’t take it anymore – I just can’t. NOTE – this post was triggered by a fine post (and subsequent FriendFeed discussion) by Mark Evans – which you can find here. The idea that you can create a “cool” service, attract massive numbers of subscribers, and then monetize the subscriber base is insane. Always… Continue reading Can we please stop talking about monetization?
More articles predicting doom for startups
I feel like the grim reaper here… really I’m not throwing myself out a window. So why am I posting these? it is important for entrepreneurs to NOT bury their heads in the sand. I would also take a moment to point out that the majority of this news is coming from Silicon Valley –… Continue reading More articles predicting doom for startups
Innovation and Entrepreneurship require Optimism
It has been an interesting few weeks… no? As a Entrepreneur and Innovator who left a comfortable job at a Fortune 500 Silicon Valley software company to follow the dream of starting my own company – I can tell you the last few weeks have been rough. Will capital completely dry up? Will any micro… Continue reading Innovation and Entrepreneurship require Optimism
AZ Governor innovation finalists announced
Congratulations to the winners listed below. I’m glad to see the state government recognizing innovation in Arizona. Now we just need to convince our legislators to get serious about passing the legislation needed to attract capital investment in Arizona startups. Winners in categories including Community Service Leader of the Year, Young Innovator of the Year… Continue reading AZ Governor innovation finalists announced
Vision, Innovation and what you think you are doing…
The single biggest barrier to innovation is a lack of imagination. The second biggest barrier is the failure to commit to your imagined future state when everyone else tells you that you’ve got it wrong; that you are not making sense; that investors “won’t get it” or some other variation on the theme. As Seth… Continue reading Vision, Innovation and what you think you are doing…
Seth Godin & the Myth of Launch PR
I love reading Seth’s posts. He always manages to shine a light on something that is not only true… but also leads us to think beyond marketing and PR and ask some fundamental questions about why we are entrepreneurs and how we create a business. New startups can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars racing… Continue reading Seth Godin & the Myth of Launch PR
America’s Innovation Deficit
Judy Estrin – former Cisco CTO – has written a book entitled Closing the Innovation Gap. She is Featured today in a article at Wired. America is facing an innovation crisis. To fix it, corporations need to find new ways of funding fundamental research into physics and environmental sciences. There is no question this is… Continue reading America’s Innovation Deficit