Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Geolocating is being used as tool for us as a collective to “assemble” so we can collaborate and take back control of our destiny and conversations. Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

But I start most conversations with “wantrepreneurs&# by saying, “make sure it’s in your personality type, make sure you have the risk appetite, make sure you can afford to take the risks given your life situations and make sure you know that there is a high possibility your startup won’t be hugely financially rewarding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

But I start most conversations with “wantrepreneurs&# by saying, “make sure it’s in your personality type, make sure you have the risk appetite, make sure you can afford to take the risks given your life situations and make sure you know that there is a high possibility your startup won’t be hugely financially rewarding.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

And social media frequently makes news, including when it accelerated the uprising in Egypt this year. Or the young social media mavens who can’t put their smart phones down long enough to have a real-life conversation with the people they’re dining with. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Not so on Twitter.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

At the recent DWEN (Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Conference) in Delhi, India, I talked to women entrepreneurs from around the world, hearing how they not only have to surmount the usual challenges of starting a business, but must often fight cultural norms as well.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that every human with time to spare, and a connection to the web, should be on social media. In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. if your business should be on that network and 2. YouTube has 1.2 Facebook for Businesses.

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