Creating companies is hard. Most fail. Overnight success is rare (my favorite “overnight success stories” are the ones that take 10+ years, like iRobot or Harmonix.) Whil

I’ve been chairman of the National Center for Women and Information Technology for the past two years. The mission is straightforward – it is “to ensure that women are fully [&

Once again I woke up to a Saturday morning blog post flurry on Techmeme. Today’s was on the criticism by Valleywag of the Microsoft People Ready campaign that ran on

TechStars is really cranking – I’m totally blown away by what everyone is working on and the level of engagement of the TechStars mentors. I’m very optimistic that some great [

In April, Lijit published what we thought were the first Widget stats. Last month, comScore published their “Widget Metrix”, a new service they have started to track the usage of

I’ve had an account on Facebook for a while. Until a month ago – around the time of the F8 Platform launch – I checked it once a month. In

Amy and I have been married for 14 years today. On June 21st, I always have the Little River Band song in echoing in my head all day and a

John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, has an excellent blog post up on the Whole Foods web site titled Whole Foods Market, Wild Oats, and The Federal Trade Commission.

I am regularly amazed at the amount of money consumer electronics, mobile device, and cell phone companies spend on “stupid customer service tricks.” I got the following no

I occasionally use this blog as a job board so if you aren’t looking for a job, please ignore this. Also – if you aren’t a superb Flash ActionScript developer