Blake Purdue and Guy Tessler made a few comments on my Seeing Leadership post that deserve further discussion. The New Media Exchange was one of the more energetic pitch events that I have recently been to with a good pace, plenty of breaks, and hordes of interested potential strategic investors. AOL, Cox, Microsoft, and Turner […]
Continue reading →Bob Cringely certainly thinks so. Well Microsoft is a Pyramid of Giza compared to Google, whose success is dependent on us not changing our favorite search engine. But what if it is changed for us? What if Verizon, and AT&T, and Comcast, and half a dozen other huge broadband ISPs suddenly cut deals with some […]
Continue reading →Not to long ago there was a little chatter about what Atlanta needs to do to become a world-class technology city. My $.02 on the subject was that we needed to see corporate leadership from the tech titans. And I am seeing a little leadership, in to many, an unlikely area. Tomorrow and Thursday Turner, […]
Continue reading →My dear friend Joe Reger has had dNeero in public beta for about a month. This is my first attempt to use the service. Pretty smooth, though truth be told I have never seen Hell’s Kitchen, the show. I actually worked in that area during a brief stint with UPS in metro NYC. I was […]
Continue reading →Dharmesh Shah, who among other things has a nice online community for entrepreneurs called OnStartups, wrote in the forums there the other day “I rarely take this strong of a stand on anything, but I think trying to completely outsource the development for an early stage startup is a recipe for failure. You really need […]
Continue reading →Technorati Profile Let’s see if they have fixed things up a bit. Update: The blog claim actually worked. Technorati sucks a little less.
Continue reading →Last week PeachSeedz announced that Morris, Manning, & Martin is having a seminar about the “Legal Issues for Emerging Business Uses of Social Networking and Consumer Generated Media”. The event is July 11 at 11:45 am. You can register here.
Continue reading →The Wall Street Journal is reporting (paywall) that business.com is going to be auctioned off. Credit Suisse is running the auction. Business.com is generating EBITDA in the $15 range and the site’s traffic is rapidly growing. The company is expected to be sold for between $300 to $400 million. Sky Dayton and Jake Weinbaum at […]
Continue reading →Geeking out on selecting a technology for Web apps. I have heard nothing that convinces that the LAMP bundle is not the way to go. While I am here I am reading about actually working at Meetup. Sounds like an interesting place or at least a humorous and well thought out pitch on why it […]
Continue reading →You can take it here. I am an old Omnivore. Thanks for the pointer to Scott B.
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