Election 2008

Greg Mitchell offers an excerpt of his new book Why Obama Won at Huffington Post. In it, he attempts to explain the new state of politics. This excerpt poses the essential question that Mitchell attempts to explore: How did sites with names like Politico and FiveThirtyEight and Eschaton and Crooks and Liars and “HuffPo” collectively…

An excellent post from John Moore at Brand Autopsy reminds us that every company makes mistakes.  No business is perfect. NONE. Business is a game of progress, not perfection. No business will be perfect. It’s an impossibly unattainable goal. But while that goal is unattainable, the most endearing and enduring businesses seem to always aspire…

Leave it to a New Hampshire guy to shake up the way companies innovate.  James Currier, founder of Tickle, has taken his windfall from the sale of that company to Monster.com and has started a new kind of innovation incubator: Ooga Labs. He calls it a “technology greenhouse,” a hydroponic environment that harnesses so much…

On the whole, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show produced few "wow" moments, but did show general technology progress on several fronts. There were interesting products that may one day become useful. One exhibitor had a monitor that produced holograms. Pretty neat, but the quality leaves something to be desired. Not yet Star Trek come to…

I’m a serial entrepreneur at heart.  An idea guy.  An angel investor.  I love diving into new things.  I guess you could say I have Entrepreneur ADD.  I just can’t help myself sometimes.  A constant in my life since 2000 has been CustomScoop. But I have had other companies that I have started and sold off…

Shel Israel pointed out this morning that the presenters so far this year have seemed far less prepared than in past events.  I would add that they have seemed less inspired in their demos.  It almost seems as if most companies are just going through the motions here. Lots of reading from notecards in a…