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One of the fun projects I am involved with is Startup Colorado, a community focused initiative to spur new company creation in Colorado.  One of Startup Colorado’s most promising projects is Startup Summer. Startup Summer is an immersive summer program offering the opportunity to work as a paid intern for a Boulder/Denver startup and attend [...]

There continues to be great interest around the world regarding how to build innovation clusters. Inspired by a similar presentation that Fred Wilson did on the NYC start-up scene many years ago, I pulled this presentation together. I just updated...

New "Game of Thrones" Season 2 featurette on filming in Iceland – http://t.co/NUkGETp0 -> .@noahmp Yeah, the Portland part was implicit given the words "Subaru" and "naked". in reply to noahmp -> QoTD: Police confirmed from Pelzner "that she was voluntarily bound and nude in the back of the Subaru" http://t.co/VOH39tqm -> Je suis très, [...]

I moved my family. I sold my Swiss farmhouse, bought a Victorian money pit instead. I forced my wife to change job. And all for what ? Boston. A place that so painfully undersells itself you’d think Indianapolis had more going on. A place that has such surly drivers that even a broken down MTBA transit feels homely. Why, oh why ? It turns out, like most expats here, we hate to admit it, but we love the place. The good news is also that however bad Boston Metro is at marketing itself compared to other hotbeds, it’s a pretty...

While the feedback to The New Polymath was overwhelmingly positive, I was a bit surprised what prompted some of the negative comments. A few software companies bitched about the Salesforce case study. More than a few outsourcing firms complained about...

My close friend Ben Casnocha and Reid Hoffman’s new book The Start-Up of You is officially out. And – it’s #1 on Amazon. Not just in some obscure category like Business & Investing: Small Business & Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship, but #1 in all books on Amazon. That’s awesomely cool. And well deserved. I met Ben about [...]

סלקום פיטרה היום 100 עובדים. מזל גדול. כי למען האמת זה היה יכול להיות 500 ואולי גם רוב עובדי החברה. וזה עוד יכול לקרות. בסופו של דבר, רמי לוי או פלאפון או אורנג או אפילו סלקום יישמו בישראל את מוודל גיפגפ ואז ישלחו את רוב עובדיהם הביתה. ואז מה? פה תוכלו לקרוא יותר על ספק הסלולרי היעיל בעולם GiffGaff עובדי הקבלן ועובדי סלקום הם שני צדדים של אותו מטבע. בעצם הם תקועים בין הביורוקרטיה לכלכלה מתקדמת וחינוך מאובן שאינו מכינה אותם לשינויים הכלכליים ששוטפים את העולם ואינה מספקת פתרונות תעסוקה. הכלכלה העולמית, וכן הכלכלה הישראלית נמצאים לא במשבר אלא במעבר של פעם במאה מכלכלה תעשייתית לכלכלה שיתופית מרושתת והעובדים משלמים את המחיר. כשמשלבים במהפכה הכלכלית הזאת גם חובות טופחות, בנקים ממונפים ובישראל גם טייקונים ששולטים במשק המקומי אז הקוקטייל יכול להיות רעיל במיוחד. אותם טייקונים שמינפו את עסקיהם ותלויים במזונים לטווח קצר של חברות כמו סלקום לא בדיוק חושבים על מיומנותו של עובד לטווח ארוך ולכן עובדים נקלטים ונפלטים מה"מעסיקים הגדולים" במשק בלי שהוסיפו מיומנות לארגז הכלים שלהם או חינוך להמשך הקריירה....

There has historically been a lot of focus on the role of the CEO, the tech & product teams and sales & marketing personnel. Business writing has engulfed each of these functions and the tabloids rave about celebrity executives from...

NPD: Apple generates a fifth of all US electronics revenue http://t.co/WfXRIzex -> The Middle-Aged United 1K Flyer with Curious Hair #UnpublishedDavidFosterWallace -> On the mathematics of biodiversity – http://t.co/HWBGIgdb -> I think my bad cold has a bad cold. Can these things be stacked? I say yes. ->

In The New Polymath, I was generous to the auto industry for innovating UI “with new approaches involving haptics, voice, and location.” Reading Consumer Reports over the last year, I may have been premature. The MyFord Touch interface in particular...

on the innovation blog Fizz factories Margaret’s Gourmet Bird Kitchen A self-sanitizing keyboard Five health gadgets to help with that resolution

We all know you can “slide to unlock” your iPhone, but did you know you can “slide to open” your various alerts? This is what happens when you get a text message (or any alert for that matter) and slide it: This will open directly to the message vs opening the phone, then drilling down [...]

I have not watched the Grammies in years, so I felt like Rip Van Winkle at the start with acts like Bruno Mars and Adele. Those names looked vaguely familiar – from the iTunes receipts that my kids kindly charge...

After 22 years of marriage, I thought I had heard every Irish expression there is. This breezy weekend, my born-in-Ireland wife, Margaret went “It’s coming in like Auld Segosha”. Fortunately, she keeps a Hiberno-English dictionary at home. I am always...

I spent all day Sunday at Silicon Flatirons’ Digital Broadband Migration Conference. This is a key national conference held in Boulder at the intersection of technology and public policy with a particular focus on the Internet. This year’s conference subtitle was “The Challenges of Internet Law and Governance.” I was pondering something all morning that I [...]

Rishi Roongta works with me at New World and is omnipresent. He is curious and tests just about everything under the sun. He came across a new restaurant that redefines both Paying Forward and restaurants in general. As he writes:...

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms.  Just as often, however, we’re investing alongside individual angel investors who are participating in the round as well.  Angel investors come in many shapes and sizes, however.  And it’s not [...]

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I gave a talk titled ”Resistance Is Futile” yesterday in Park City at the annual meeting for one of our LPs. This is a version of a talk I’ve given several times, starting at Defrag last fall. The slides don’t change, but I make up the talk each time and tune it to the audience. When I [...]

It's interesting to see a network, Instagram, starting to replace the iPhone's native camera application in many users' daily usage of their phones. I see this in my kids' behavior all the time. When they want to take a photo,...

The FBI has made public notes from the background check on Steve Jobs when President Bush wanted to consider him for an appointment. Sure there is some unflattering personal detail, but this was during Bush Sr’s (yes!) tenure – over...

"Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something you want done, because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower I'm a business book junkie, so when my friends at Penguin (publishers of my book, Mastering the...

Many startups come to the point when they need to hire a big hitting sales person to scale revenues to the next level. Deal sizes are getting bigger, contacts at customers are getting more senior, but sales are not growing as fast as they should. This is a common pattern and the most obvious [...]

In December I wrote a post titled It’s Not About Having The Most Friends, It’s About Having The Best Friends. Since then I’ve been systematically modifying my social networking behavior and cleaning up my various social graphs. As a significant content generator in a variety of forms (blogs, books, tweets, videos) and a massive content consumer, [...]

During the Super Bowl I saw a couple of tweets which lamented that few of the ads “called for action” on part of the customer. Probably part of the brand nurturing investment I thought. Sometime in the near future, in...

From the wonderful BBC reboot of Sherlock Holmes, the superb Season 2 opening Sherlock/Moriarty anti-showdown.

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It is so predictable. The media flurry around an M announcement, the celebratory mood at the acquired company, the speculation around the acquirer’s quarter, the giddy talk about conquering the world, the rumors around “who-next” and “roll-ups”, the debates around...