Last week I met a bright entrepreneur with a good idea and the right experience and cred to pull it off. She said, “what I need is a tech person and a COO to get started.” I told her that she absolutely didn’t need a COO right now, and that she should run as fastRead… Read more »
I mentioned in a recent post that I came back from my time away from the web in August with a new take on things. One of the things I’ve come back with is an unshakable sense that social media has gotten boring. Not one platform, but all of it, together. As a topic ofRead… Read more »
Last week I posted about how General Assembly-style co-working spaces/incubators are about to disrupt higher education, offering basically the same value to their customers at a fraction of the cost of institutional education. Near the end I said non-essential grad programs would either “wither on the vine or else radically transform themselves to stay alive,Read… Read more »
Earlier this week the NYC-based co-working space General Assembly announced a $4.25 million round of funding, with investors like Yuri Milner and Jeff Bezos participating in the round. I think of this as the first real shot fired in what is going to become a huge wave of disruption around the world: the disruption ofRead… Read more »
Every year come August I sort of fall off the web for a month or so. It feels great to unplug, and it allows me to update my ideas/positions on things, by letting me distance myself from the ideas I’ve been constantly thinking about for the past 11 months. This year was no exception. MyRead… Read more »
I had a post for this blog all queued up to go yesterday morning, a great post, one of my personal faves in a long time. I was really excited to post it. Then I got into the elevator with someone I’m doing a bit of work with right now, got some news, and decidedRead… Read more »
In 2006, faberNovel (the company I work with) started a project called BlueEyes with RATP (similar to NYC’s MTA but for Paris). Originally it was a product intended to help those with sight impairments find their way around the Paris Metro. Created in the days before apps (and in fact before the iPhone), the systemRead… Read more »
Last week I held a little get-together at Vbar with friends and people who read this blog. It was great fun – people met, talked big ideas & challenges, contacts were made, email addresses changed hands. Coffee was consumed. A big (little) success. Since then, people have been asking when I’m going to do itRead… Read more »
I wrote earlier that tomorrow is the last day to submit ideas to the NYC BigApps Ideas contest. And I suggested that anyone reading should click over and submit an idea or two. Why not, takes all of 30 seconds? So I decided I should follow my own advice and submit a few ideas myself,Read… Read more »
I was just looking over all of the ideas for the NYC BigApps Ideas contest, and noticed the last day to submit your idea is tomorrow, July 27th. If you’re reading this, you should go now to the site and submit an idea for an app. You can do it right from the top ofRead… Read more »