Anyone else have this dilemma? What do you do to overcome it? I always love traveling or working in remote coffee shops because that’s where my mind frees up. IGA Worldwide was a brain fart of mine when I was walking thru the woods in Saratoga Springs. Tomzy was ideated when Sherri and I was traveling [...]
Category: Internet & Web X.0
I’m totally opening my kimono on this idea. I believe that your [collective] feedback early in the process will help shape and guide where this idea goes (if anywhere). And by the way, I’m committing to investing a bit to test the idea out (which I think is very feasible). The inspiration for this idea came [...]
If you touch the digital media industry in anyway, over the past 48 hours, you probably heard about Flipboard. Techmeme has tons of coverage on it this morning as folks like Stowe Boyd, Gizmodo, and Robert Scoble are discussing whether or not it’s legal. I first heard about the App while I was sitting in [...]
I’m all about getting really smart people together and talking about the goings-on in the industry (digital media). I’ve been hosting a private golf outing for the past 3 years and changing things up a bit… read below: Silicon Alley Tees Off Premier Networking & Golf Invitational Tees Off on August 4 Contact: Darren Herman [...]
One of my friends, Sam Lessin, created a service called letter.ly, which allows anyone to sign up for a email newsletter account and charge users whatever they want to join. An example of this is Michael Galpert’s newsletter of which he charges $4.00/mo. Recently, Jason Calcannis and Sam Lessin declared their blogs dead and are [...]
This post was inspired by Fred Wilson’s post today and Chris Dixon’s post back in 2009 about online advertising and it’s potential share gains. Quite simply, Chris outlines that there are two types of advertising: brand advertising (ATL= above the line) and direct response (BTL=below the line). Much of the ad dollars have historically been [...]
A much smarter man than I said that competing with big companies is much easier than small companies. Big companies are hard to pivot and change; so they either acquire you (good for investors) or you bring them down. Actually, he said that today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference today in New York City. His [...]
A short and sweet thought inspired by Mark Cuban‘s latest posting on Google TV. If we are finally in the early days of television/digital convergence, then Google is going to want to leverage their PageRank (probably needs a new name) algorithm to help TV viewers find content. If you are thinking of getting into SEO, [...]
I think society is trained to equate CTO (Chief Technology Officer) with the formal corporation. In many corporations, CTO’s are certainly needed and they play a vital role. In your personal life (outside the office), who is your CTO? In many cases, the CTO is yourself or a trusted friend. Choosing technology is almost a [...]
