There is an awful lot of start ups out there. Time is a very efficient mechanism for sorting quality and quantity. I have no doubt that with crowd funding platforms [ … ]
Open Data emergent. Disruption ahead?
Open Data emergent. Disruption ahead? Technologists are very excited about being permitted to innovate within NYC government, their initial, high visibility focus of improvement includes procurement. However, I anticipate that [ … ]
Will Tech Move Forward as an Industry?
Tech in NYC, as an industry is cautiously and (maybe) reluctantly emerging. It is hesitant, thrifty and somewhat unprepared. The real estate industry has a 400 year head start, manufacturing [ … ]
Twitter buyer beware. Why I’m not buying the IPO
Twitter buyer beware. You might have remorse Twitter reality TV debuts on NYSE Thursday. I am a twitter user. I would not buy its stock… At least not until it has [ … ]
Jason Calcanis: rethink & and Google redux
Jason Calcanis:rethink & and Google redux Many great companies have perished, or suffered horribly, from a type of corporate indigestion. @jason wrote an excellent post capturing the Google comprehensive strategy [ … ]
Pinterest as corporate VC model
Pinboards: it’s a confession of our DNA, a wish list and an imagining of what would ‘complete me’. “I want this, it goes with that, this is the value it [ … ]
Lean Startup: slogan or strategy
With crowd funding and other emerging mechanisms for deal flow and retail distribution, there will be continued growth for both start ups and its industry of accessories. I am a [ … ]
Yammer
Yammer was an exceptional company, it is now a part of MSFT. So it is gone now. It is unfortunate that the postmortem analysis that I have seen lacks fair [ … ]
2006s
Los Angeles Journal of March 2006 Los Angeles Journal of April 2006
Sleaze Disease
Dear Artist, your relief from the daily trauma of being an artist All right. We live in Los Angeles. We knew when we moved out here that this was the [ … ]


