Your Startup idea – go for it
You’ve surely heard that Facebook bought a company called WhatsApp for $19 billion in stock and cash. What do they do? WhatsApp exploits loopholes in mobile phone carriers networks to be a very cheap...
Category: business
Don’t look up apology on AOL
Most likely you’ve heard about AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s recent remarks during a conference call, where he blamed high healthcare expenses due to “distressed babies” as an excuse for changing the way AOL handles...
Zoho tries to poach Highrise users from 37signals
Zoho, perhaps drunk with power over it’s 10 millionth user (heavily promoted through RTs on Twitter), and on the news of 37 Signals changing it’s name and focus entirely to Basecamp, posted tweets...
The Killer App for Table Top Computers
If you’ve shopped at a store that sells computers, like Bestbuy, you may have seen tabletop computers somewhere over in the corner by the desktop computers. Essentially giant tablet computers that can handle 10...
The Art of the Pitch – honing your sales skills
I spoke with a friend today about a recent pitch her company made. It made me think of the show The Pitch, now available for free streaming on Netflix, and we talked about how...
Drinking vodka from the bottle at work builds teams
In the early days of the Internet, I worked at a company with lots of Russians. I didn’t understand their culture very well, and getting to be friends was tricky. Then someone saw the...
