Each month the largest Meetup event in the world takes place in New York City, where local innovators show off their latest work at the NY Tech Meetup. Over 800 people come each month, and hundreds more now watch live at simulcast events. Though there were some excellent demos last night (CartoDB and Scroll Kit [...]
Read more →“It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.”
~ Clayton M. Christensen (@claychristensen)
Harvard Business Review, July 2010
As a niche market company offering high value, recession-proof goods, bargains for consumers and a marketing opportunity for wholesalers, Lot 18 has nailed all of my ideal attributes in a company. But that’s not why I tried out the online wine seller. I signed up last year because I’m the perfect early user for a [...]
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What do Steven Brill, Mike Hudack, Babak Nivi and Chris Siragusa all have in common? They are all innovative founders who have all personally responded to my customer support requests. Many of you know that Craig Newmark takes the prize in this department (his job title at the hugely popular Craigslist is “Customer Service Rep”), [...]
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The best new media product I’ve seen since the iPad is the Kindle Fire. This is not a typical tablet. Amazon’s Kindle Fire is a content delivery system. It is inaccurate to compare this directly to the iPad, because the two devices are quite different and will naturally appeal to different kinds of users. Others [...]
Read more →Anyone who loves sports, works in management, plays video games or simply loves to root for a misfit underdog needs to watch one film this weekend — Race to World First.
This is one of my favorite new films we are hosting at Dynamo and I predict a cult hit. Watch it here now, or at www.RaceToWorldFirst.com.[For a full review click here.]