DCI Group’s Katie Harbath will be speaking to the Public Affairs Council’s grassroots conference in Tampa, Florida today, and she has posted her presentation slides in advance of her talk. I’m sure they will be even more illuminating when she has a chance to speak and supplement the text and pictures.
In the meantime, there are a number of useful facts and figures included in these slides.
I’m looking for a few good writer to serve as part-time correspondents for Start Rocket, my new media publication focused on high-tech startups outside of Silicon Valley. Specifically, I need people in Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, and Washington to start who are willing to write between 1 and 4 articles each month about startups,…
There’s been a bit of buzz in the blogosphere over The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, so despite its absurd-sounding name, I picked up a copy to read. Unfortunately, it was pretty much what I expected. I only made it about one-third of the way through when I came across a piece of advice…
An interesting one man band in Burlington, VT is setting up an online social network focused on real world social networks of yore: neighborhoods. Apparently some 20 percent of all of the residents of Burlington have joined the Front Porch Forum. To me, that’s a staggering statistic and once again demonstrates that online communications tools…
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…
I’m pleased to announce that I will be writing a regular column for Mass High Tech, a regional publication that covers the New England high-tech community. The column is called “Innovation Notations” and takes a look at entrepreneurship, venture capital, angel investing, and technology innovation. My first column appeared today and covers highlights of the…
Call me a fuddy-duddy. Call me a curmudgeon. But I find the flurry of April Fool’s blog posts to be annoying. The best ones make it hard to tell fact from fiction (see TechCrunch & FC), but unfortunately that makes one doubt even real news today. Plenty of people have been caught in the fake news…