I made a recent appearance this week on Press:Here, NBC Bay Area’s Sunday tech talk/interview show. Our interview this week was with Jeremiah Owyang, partner at Altimeter Group, web analyst/strategist, and all around great guy. We covered everything from the impact of social media on the newspaper industry to the future of privacy. I’ve embedded… Continue reading Discussing Paywalls, Privacy & Tech Trends with Jeremiah Owyang on NBC’s Press:Here
The engraving on the back of my new iPad.
Obama shakes hands with the crowd.
The room awaits @BarackObama’s arrival at Facebook HQ
Q: When Should a Startup Not Accept Venture Capital? A: When It Doesn’t Need It.
A few weeks ago, I came across this gem of a question on Quora: When should a startup not accept venture capital? Most people assume that raising money is always a good thing, that it will make your business better 100% of the time. That’s not always true — in fact many entrepreneurs raise money… Continue reading Q: When Should a Startup Not Accept Venture Capital? A: When It Doesn’t Need It.
The Star Wars mural on the Fox Studios lot in LA
The Golden Rule of Moderating a Great Panel
My very first panel after joining Mashable. Great moderators all have one trait in common: they know that they aren’t there to be the show. Since I joined Mashable, I’ve moderated my share of panels about media, technology or entrepreneurship. It’s taken me a few panels to get my style down, but now it’s like… Continue reading The Golden Rule of Moderating a Great Panel
So You Want to Learn Ruby & Ruby on Rails…
Whenever I get the chance, I’ve been studying up on my programming. I taught myself PHP long ago and took classes in C during college, but that knowledge has rusted. To get my knowledge back to a respectable level, I’m learning Python, and will hopefully move into Ruby/Rails and then Objective-C, since I’d like to… Continue reading So You Want to Learn Ruby & Ruby on Rails…
Q: What Makes a Great Leader? A: Communication
I stumbled across an interesting question on Quora today: “Which makes a better leader, a person who communicates well with other people, or a person who gets the job done?” While I think the author was hoping people would say that charismatic leaders aren’t as important as specialized professionals/strategists/work horses, the comments surprisingly went in… Continue reading Q: What Makes a Great Leader? A: Communication