Are There Too Many Startups?
That was a question put to Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures (USV), after his remarks last week at the BMW I Born Electric event. Might this be a fad – like doing a band in the 70s?...
Data Data Everywhere
Like the Ancient Mariner who had ‘water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink,” we have data, data everywhere, but not the understanding we need about it. What is it? What does “big data” mean? What defines...
Even Bigger than the Internet
The cloud is changing everything. The change is even bigger than the change we saw from the Internet. It will change how every business operates. That’s what a cloud computing expert told me – Roger Krakoff, founder and managing partner...
What Difference Does it Make?
What differences does it make? That’s the first question for every entrepreneur and innovator. The country – and the world for that matter – is buzzing with new start ups. Most of them will fail of course and it won't...
The New News: Vox Populi
A new Greenpeace campaign targets Apple’s cloud computing products, as it looks to “clean the cloud around the world. A smooth animation of a timelapse of planet Earth from ‘Electro-L’, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40,000 kilometres above the Earth. A...
The New Communication: Electronic, Social & Mobile Media
For some years, I had six phone lines on each of two instruments and a phone at one ear or the other – sometimes both – many hours a day. I also had a third instrument with my private line...
The New Advertising: Frictionless Sharing
Privacy – “the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively,” according to Wikipedia” – has become a marketable commodity for millions of consumers, it seems. Given the right “value...
A Time for Transformation, not Mere Change
Once upon a time – about a year ago - traditional publishers fell in love with the colorful screens of mobile devices as a solution to their battle with the popular assumption that information on the Internet wants to be...
Politcs 2012
That the Internet has changed everything is a truism. Some stunning – and sometimes alarming - take-aways from “Politics, Tech & Decision 2012,” the most recent Gotham Media Ventures panel discussion, bring this home with a bang. Online presence is...
It Takes Two To Tango!
A classic mistake for start-ups is to ask one name to fly solo. It’s usually the product name. Since entrepreneurs have to be obsessed with their product to start a business, that’s probably to be expected. But then how can...