On Monday Aug 15, 2:16pm EDT, I contributed to the PEN TYPE-A on Kickstarter.  Well, tomorrow is February 1st and so that means that it has been roughly five and a half months since I funded the project.  And you know what – that’s fine with me. An hour ago I got an invitation to [...]

BR Venture Fund is seeking applications for the Cornell Venture Challenge (CVC)! The Cornell Venture Challenge (CVC) is Cornell University’s prestigious Business Plan Competition. On April 19, 2012, during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration event a select group of applicants will get the chance to pitch new and exciting business ideas to a panel of professional investors [...]

It turns out that some people disagree with me Read Part 1 The other day I posted an article about my aversion to using outsourced software development firms for new product development. Well, I got a few private emails and comments (which didn’t make it past my filter) telling me that I was wrong. So [...]

I’m in a textbook.  Yup – one of those expensive things that you’re required to buy, that took three trees to make, and that you will resell for 20% of what you paid.  This particular textbook is called Marketing by McGraw Hill and I contributed to the social media chapter.  I took all of the [...]

Cynical advice to entrepreneurs: Believe it or not, a lot of people want to be involved with a start up.  Of those, most people don’t want to take any of the risk.  Of course, they still want to take all of the credit for success and that creates a problem for you.  You will find [...]

Why I won’t touch a company that doesn’t have in-house development The headline might sound like a bit of an exaggeration but in the last 8 years of my life working on and with startups, I’ve found plenty of examples why fully outsourced IT has failed but no good example of when it has worked [...]

Okay, this may not be one of the official achievements.  In fact, I don’t think Kickstarter even has any such awards for users.  Oh well.  If you don’t know what the rainbow pie chart is below, think of it like a Trivial Pursuit piece. Each color  represents a category of product you can fun.  For [...]

The inevitable wireless spectrum crunch is an opportunity to make a lot of money if you’re a smart VC.

For reasons that are still unclear to me, I was having flashbacks to the late 90′s web.  <Blink> tags and Geocities ruled the web and one flash animation stood out in particular – Radiskull by Joe Sparks.  I can’t seem to find the original Flash file in an easy to embed setup but here is [...]

I was researching a few things for my previous blog post.  Let me rephrase that, I was trying to break back in to our YouTube channel since I had long since forgotten the password and decided to google my old company.  I found Josh Gille’s portfolio online and the work he did for us.  It turned out great and [...]