Social Media and The Super Bowl Big Game commercials take to the Internet
Posted Mon Feb 2, 2009
What VCs said about the TechCrunch 50 (Video)
At the close of the TechCrunch 50 conference a few weeks ago, I sat down with Rick Heitzmann of FirstMark Capital and Mark Sugarman of MHS Capital to find out why venture capitalists come to conventions, what they thought, and what advice they would give to presenting companies.
Posted Tue Oct 7, 2008
Like AFLAC For Your Business
Have you ever wondered what you would do if your business was hit by a large scale disaster? Sure you have your insurance policy, but what would you do during the weeks or months waiting for the check to arrive. If your office was damaged, how long could you stick it out while it was rebuilt? With the recent hurricanes Gustav and Ike, hundreds of business owners are facing this exact scenario. Even with insurance I suspect many of them will never be able to come back because they can’t recover from the downtime.
Posted Wed Oct 1, 2008
The Future of Visual Computing (Video)
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the NVISION 08 visual computing conference and sat down with Nvidia’s Sr. VP of Marketing, Dan Vivoli. Watch the interview and find out what’s in store for the future of visual computing.
Posted Tue Sep 16, 2008
Ashton Kutcher Launches www.BlahGirls.com (Video Interview)
I caught up with Ashton Kutcher at the TechCrunch 50 and got the scoop on his new www.BlahGirls.com web property. Check out the interview and see how I got punk’d.
Posted Fri Sep 12, 2008
Network Boss Trades TV for YouTube
Most people wouldn’t dream of trading a high flying career in television to work with fledgling digital content producers, but Jordan Levin, former CEO of the WB network, did exactly that. I caught up with Jordan and one of his producers, Sean Masterson, at his new company Generate, where I asked him why he gave up TV, what he looks for in a show, and how his company can take a small online content producer and help turn them into a star.
Posted Tue Sep 2, 2008
AOL’s Bad Service Inspires a Startup
If you’ve ever been thwarted in your attempts to reach a live customer service agent by Byzantine phone menus that led you in circles, then you understand Eric Strand’s pain. Eric, himself the founder of a top 500 E-commerce site, became so frustrated with the runaround he got while trying to cancel his AOL account that he launched www.CustomerServiceNumbers.com, a website dedicated to helping people get around the phone trees and talk to real service reps. Only six weeks old, the site has already developed a loyal following.
Posted Wed Aug 13, 2008
Fast Company Buzz Innovating like Cisco Systems
A few weeks ago I posted an interview with Matt Greeley, the CEO of a company called BrightIdea.com. Matt explained that his company had a turnkey innovation feedback portal that let users submit and vote on ideas, so companies can sort out the useful feedback from the fluff (full interview here).
Posted Wed Jul 30, 2008
The Dawn of Virtual Reality GUIs
Imagine walking through a dark hallway, similar to an aquarium, with a wall of glowing video screens stacked three high. The videos extend as far as you can see, and when you touch a screen that interests you, it expands and begins to play. Sounds like magic, doesn’t it? It’s real, and it’s available for your browser right now.
Posted Sun Jul 27, 2008
SoCal Tech – The Undiscovered Country
When Mike Macadaan, a Silicon Valley based designer at AOL, decided to throw a tech exhibition, you’d think he would have done it locally. Instead, Macadaan did the unthinkable. He went to Los Angeles. Surely this would mean disaster. After all, the only tech companies in LA were celebrity vanity projects that made no sense, right?
Posted Mon Jul 21, 2008
Micro Venture Capitalists - Filling the Funding Gap
It used to be that venture capitalists either went big or went home. If the investment wasn’t $1.5 million or more, the deal just wasn’t interesting to them. Unfortunately, this often left early stage companies facing a funding gap between what they could raise from family and friends and the big money the VCs wanted to invest. Angels helped fill the gap, but this still left limited options for the entrepreneur looking for money in the $250K to $1.5 million “no-man’s land.”
Posted Wed Jul 16, 2008
