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Fred Wilson’s 2010 Perspective

Trying to catch up on the RSS feed from Building43. You can definitely see the huge amount of value for hearing thought leaders’ perspectives on the future of the web. And really the emerging importance of the web for small businesses. The power of the web is still predominately a “new frontier” for small businesses [...]

Analogy of Status Updates

It’s been some time since I took the SATs but I always enjoyed the “analogy” section of the test.  Okay, as much as a standardized test can be enjoyable, it is up there with using a freshly-sharpened #2 pencil to fill in those little ovals.  If you don’t remember, here’s an example: DALMATIAN : DOG [...]

“We put the ‘no’ in innovation”

My wife handed me a full page ad today of Post cereal’s ad campaign that started I believe last month.  The headline:  ”Innovation is not your friend.”  The tag line:  ”We put the ‘no’ in innovation” Certainly an attention grabber.  It certainly caught me off guard on first glance.  And I don’t think anyone will [...]

Guest Post @ Slice of MIT

In case you are interested, I wrote a guest blog post over at Slice of MIT on the Masdar Institute as a follow-up to my post on the Masdar Initiative taking place in Abu Dhabi.  The Masdar Institute is going to serve as the epicenter of learning, innovation and venture creation on green concepts, processes [...]

A Project to Root For

Reading the latest issue of the MIT Technology Review and there is a good article about the Masdar Initiative. I find it hard to not root for success of the project: A $15B investment in aims to create a zero emissions city, a green metropolis as they refer to it. If you haven’t read about [...]