Time management is worthless. It really is. I’ve spent plenty of “time” trying to get things done, solve problems and create value. But often, the most productivity comes from a few hours here and there during which I am energetic and focused. So, don’t think
3) The networked digital delivery of all media, especially including newspapers. This is a big topic and dear to my heart, so I’ve dedicated an entire post to this one. Regardless of what anyone might think about the ongoing need for paper delivery, the simple
As an active entrepreneur and investor, from time to time I step back and review the meta-trends that will drive entrepreneurial success in the near future. There are certain inexorable trends that drive social and economic change, and those are the trends that we must
I enjoyed judging the OpenBeta3 PitchCamp last Thursday with fellow judges Vance Lucas of InvoiceMore.com, Jim Rogers from i2E, Piyush Patel of P L Studios fame, and Shawn Roberts of Brown & Roberts . I have to admit that I was skeptical that participants who
Since we only had 15 minutes to do our educational presentation on Tuesday for participants in PitchCamp, prior to OpenBeta on Thursday, I decided to go a little lighter on my “Investment Criteria for Entrepreneurs” presentation… Without further ado, we present “The Top 10 Unspoken
I’ve been asked to speak at the upcoming OpenBeta3 event organized by the ExtendedBeta community. I’ve been asked to talk about the investment criteria that angel investors, seed funds and venture capitalists use to evaluate investment in technology startups, and in the process I’ll be
As work progresses at Black Mesa Ventures on the launch version of GEOINTELIS, I ran across this blog entry: Ghost in the Pixel ยป Only real artists ship I heard Guy Kawasaki say something similar at a conference I was at least year: Just ship
Quick blog roundup of things I’m reading: Great post on ReadWriteWeb on what a great web service should accomplish: Build an Insanely Great Web Service. An interesting, although highly generalized, post on Slate.com about the purchase of Mint.com by Intuit for $170MM last week: The
Writing this blog can be very helpful. In writing recently about my personal productivity tips, it occurred to me that I was really using too many “to do” processes. Moving stuff from my GTD Master List to a daily list was a pain and inevitably
I wanted to provide some additional info on my assertion that Zoho CRM can be cheaper than Salesforce – which is important when you’re adding your entire staff to the system in order to provide not only sales and marketing support, but also technical support