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30 Franchises 13 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
There is a perfect storm of three distinct disruptive forces that has the potential to topple nearly every major enterprise software incumbent. And the traditional approach of dealing with technology ...
Finding the Right Fit 3 Jul 2013 | 11:56 pm
All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous. But the best pitches are also usually non-...
Pindrop 19 Jun 2013 | 06:02 pm
One of the most famous hackers in the world, Kevin Mitnick, published a book about his exploits — “The Art of Deception” — after he got out of prison. This guy broke into corporations, government agen...
Pindrop 19 Jun 2013 | 06:02 pm
One of the most famous hackers in the world, Kevin Mitnick, published a book about his exploits — “The Art of Deception” — after he got out of prison. This guy broke into corporations, government agen...
It’s Time for Lyft off! 23 May 2013 | 07:27 pm
When I first met Logan Green and John Zimmer nearly a year ago, I was struck by the authenticity of Lyft’s founding. Originally called Zimride, everyone assumed the company was named after John but it...
How would you start a PayPal or rebuild Visa today? 30 Apr 2013 | 10:00 pm
Ben Milne has a special relationship with transaction fees. An entrepreneur with a design and manufacturing business in Iowa, Ben found himself obsessed with one simple notion: transaction fees were e...
The Building is the New Server 29 Mar 2013 | 03:14 am
The personal computer is dead. As quickly as we moved from the desktop to the laptop, we are moving to the tablet — never to return. With the death of the PC, an entire ecosystem dies with it. The chi...
The covers are finally off App.net! 27 Feb 2013 | 10:36 am
It is now clear that App.net (ADN) is not just a for fee twitter clone but a full on platform for developers to build a whole new set of services on top of. With the announcement and launch of a free ...
The “I-just-got-bought-by-a-big-company” survival guide 7 Feb 2013 | 12:15 am
It took almost six months for my former company IronPort’s acquisition by Cisco to close and it seemed like forever. Although I was still the CEO by name, I was essentially running a “puppet” governme...
Authentic Leadership 3 Dec 2012 | 09:45 pm
“There are a bunch of aggressive, ivy-league educated, high IQ people working in Bentonville whose careers are going nowhere because they never learned how to connect with other people.” — Lee...
