Last week I made a speech in Des Moines, Iowa for my friends at Channel Bio Corporation. This company sells four brands of corn and soybean seeds: Crow’s, Midwest Seed Genetics, Wilson Seeds, and NC+. Rather interesting stuff...lots of technology to what the company does. In preparation for the speech, the company sent me a [...]
The July/August issue of Stanford Magazine contains a marvelous collection of articles about “Kids Today.” If you have a kid(s), you must read it. If you know people with a kid(s), you should send it to them. Certainly every mommy blogger should link to it! Here is a partial list of the articles: “Growing Concerns” [...]
Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and ’twill out at the key-hold; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out the chimney. —As You Like It To tell you the truth, I never cared whether William Shakespeare wrote the literature that is attributed to him. [...]
Update August, 2008: If you want to see the world's most complete collection of mommy blogs, go to Moms.alltop. While poking around the BlogHer site, I found what must be the definitive list of blogs for moms. I provide it below. If you know a mom, please forward this list to her. I’m pretty sure [...]
Here is an interview with David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati. In this interview he explains what Technorati does as well as the practices of good blogging. Here are his Favorites Ironically, he doesn't post to his blog too often! But, there are several interesting charts there. Question: How many blogs does Technorati [...]
I came across a very interesting study about word of mouth advertising while reading the NYU PR graduate school blog. Here’s a paragraph to give you a flavor of the article: Surprisingly, the study found that less than 40% of consumers use e-mail to make recommendations to others, including via personal e-mail (37%), by e-mail [...]
Harold Keables taught me how to write. He was my English high-school teacher in the early seventies (1970s, not 1870s). I wasn’t that great a student, so he’s probably having a good laugh in heaven watching me write books and blogs. Mr. Keables used Good Writing: An Informal Manual of Style when I was in [...]
This is a list of the top ten postings as measured by links. It can always be at the top of the blog as a navigation tool. Please vote below. 419 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint 250 The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs 155 The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists 135 The Art of [...]
We’re in a bubble again. It’s not as frothy as last time, but hallelujah, this time we know what to do, right? One good thing about the dotcom implosion in 2000 is that we got lots of practice laying people off, and I’m afraid that this valuable knowledge may get lost. If you are scoffing [...]
In the spirit of the 4th of July, here is a great fireworks screensaver called Skyrocket. Mac version. Windows version. You can see a video of the screensaver here. The fireworks are rendered in 3D with all sorts of customization. Macintosh users: Be sure to turn on the sound (and tweak other features) by clicking [...]
Here are three interesting essays about how social networks work. Highly relevant reading for anyone in a social networking company—or investing in one. 5 reasons why social networks fail 5 reasons why social networks can succeed Situational Relevance in Social Networking Websites
Jajah announced free long-distance calls yesterday. This offer is for landline and cell phone calls from and to the countries listed below. Just a reminder: Jajah is the Internet phone service that enables you to use any phone to call any phone without installing any software or being connected to the computer once the call [...]
This is an interview with Dr. Sandor Gardos, CEO and staff sexologist of MyPleasure. Sandor is a licensed clinical psychologist and sex therapist as well as a board-certified sexologist. We met recently at a San Francisco Entrepreneurs Organization dinner where I was the keynote speaker. By the way, I predict that most people will say, [...]
Sometime tomorrow night I am going to run a “Ten Questions With..” interview with the CEO of Mypleasure.com. This is an online retailer of sex toys; if you’ve linked to my blog, please be forewarned. I don’t think there’s anything offensive in the interview, but I’m not you. I won’t post it until 6:00 pm [...]
This posting is a very simple tip that I discovered this weekend. Perhaps many people already know about it, but I didn’t. Suppose you know someone whose kids spend too much time on the Internet playing, for example, World of Warcraft. The question is, “How can I limit Internet access for particular computers?” Sure, you [...]
This is Google Video week on my blog...here’s another one. This is Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, at Garage’s “Bootcamp for Startups” in London on September 5, 2000. It‘s fair to consider Nolan the father of arcade video games; more info about Nolan is here at Wikipedia and via the [...]
I can’t tell you exactly how I did it, but I messed up the RSS feed. Of course, if you are getting the feed okay, then you didn’t need this message. And if you’re not getting the feed, then you won’t get this message. :-)
An honest speaker will tell you that she has “on” days and “off” days. The result of a truly “on” day is a standing ovation. I had a very “on” day at TiECon on May 13, 2006. This is the annual meeting of The Indus Entrepreneur organization. I’ve provided postings of audio and video of [...]
Here’s more information along the theme of understanding the “young-people” market. On May 24, 2006, I moderated a panel for the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. The panel consisted of six students whose ages varied from fourteen to seventeen. It’s one thing to read about how they use technology, and it’s another to hear them [...]
Kathleen Gasperini is the co-founder and senior vice president of Label Networks. We met in May, 2006 at the Surfing Industry Manufacturers Association conference in Cabo San Lucas. Her company helps leading brands such as Apple Computer, Verizon Wireless, Pepsi, Vans, Levi Straus, and Burton Snowboards understand the global youth culture. She is also the [...]