Never underestimate the power of having a good story – whether it’s to pitch potential investors or customers or whether it’s to share with other entrepreneurs. The importance of storytelling for entrepreneurs is the foundation for FounderLY, a project that I profiled back in April when it launched its platform. FounderLY collects video interviews...
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When the annual budgets for e-government initiatives including Data.gov were slashed by 75% last month, it didn’t look good for the tech side of transparency. Today federal CIO Vivek Kundra has adressed the fate of these e-government programs in a letter to congress: “No project will go unaffected” he said. Data.gov, the repository for...
Part of the excitement driving LinkedIn’s IPO last week comes from investors associating social media with network effects. You know, the principle that the value of a network increases dramatically with the number of its participants. That’s the engine that drove Facebook and eBay, not to mention the public telephone network. Markets with network effects tend to have explosive...
Today at Tech Crunch Disrupt, all investors’ eyes were on GetAround, a San Francisco based company that has tapped into the market of collaborative consumption, acting like the AirBnB of car lending. “We have over 250 million cars in America that sit parked and idle for 22 hours per day. GetAround is a new...
Of all the things written about the heavily funded Color, there is no denying that it’s confusing to a lot of people, at least at first. Updates have helped this a bit, but the app relies so much on technology in the background, that it almost seems as if you’re doing something wrong when...
A new blog has sprung up showing off Apple employees ‘planking’ at Apple Stores. The Tumblr hosted blog sprang into existence about 5 days ago and has been making the rounds on Twitter. It’s worth a laugh if you’re ok with Apple geniuses having a well earned lie-down in a truly ridiculous manner after...
Groups are all the rage right now. Facebook is focusing on them. Google is thought to be focusing on them. GroupMe, Beluga, etc. The fact that so many companies are focusing on them shows a common belief that they’re extremely important. Kohort, a new service launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, believes...
Dan Frommer | May 24, 2011, 5:50 PM | 10,503| Image: Activate We’ve just come across this new presentation deck from Activate, the strategy and consulting firm founded by Michael Wolf (former MTV President) and Anil Dash (blogging hero and Internet expert). It seems to be a pitch on how media companies can find...
Sprint CEO says no to the ATT and T-Mo merger. Cox Communications says it plans to stop building out its wireless network according to Fierce Wireless, which published a story this afternoon citing Cox spokesman David Deliman who said the cable company will “soon” decommission its 3G network. The story noted that Cox, a...