If you see me in the next couple of days and hear a strange buzzing noise, that isn’t my new massaging socks I got for Christmas – that is the blood pressure monitor strapped across my arm, or the activity sensor on my wrist, or the PDA that is attached to my hip that is [...]
New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2011-01-08 – New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2011-01-01 N… http://ht.ly/1aMozG #
How a bridge champ beats the market – Fortune Finance – http://goo.gl/X2Wyi #
What I Tell My Kids (Part 1) | Pittsburgh Ventures http://bit.ly/htXcSe #
New PghVentures Post What I Tell My Kids (Part 1) – I saw a [...]
During my year-long journey through the books in 2010, I was able to read many books that had been bought years earlier never to be read. I tend to be a bit of a book hoarder – I like to own them and always have the best intentions of getting to them, but it often [...]
One of my friends wrote a very thoughtful post the other day , The Problem With Charitable Giving. Actually, I think he should have entitled it The Solution to Charitable Giving, because he presents as many solutions as problems in his post.
I want to expand more on the largest point he makes – the notion [...]
It is a snowy day in Western PA, and the schools are closed and the kids are happy…
Last year, my venture capital firm came very close to making an investment in a neat little company in Wilmington, NC – New Potato Technologies (“…a name that raises more questions than it answers…” to quote the founder; [...]
I saw a question posted on Quora the other day asking about how to best educate your kids to prepare them for a startup life. This is a question I have been thinking about for some time, and I posted Part 1 of this thought yesterday.
To sum up to this point:
1) Do the best you [...]
I saw a question posted on Quora the other day asking about how to best educate your kids to prepare them for a startup life. This is a question I have been thinking about for some time.
I have two older kids who are 14 (girl) and 12 (boy) years old, and then two younger kids, [...]
New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2011-01-01 – New PghVentures Post Alan’s Twitterfeed from 2010-12-25 N… http://ht.ly/1aGrxy #
Globalization, brought on by technology, will lead the rest of world to freedom & equality. How can it not? http://bit.ly/gaUYsK #g11n #
My personal HOT DOG meme continues… $7 for $14 Worth of Gourmet Frankfurters at Franktuary… http://t.co/PzJTnjK [...]
I have been watching some of the activity out at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and I finally saw a tablet computer that I must have, one that will get me a base camp in the tablet revolution. It’s called the XOOM and it is made by Motorola.
I have written about tablets before, but have been [...]
I made alot of noise last year about my new year’s resolution to read more books in 2010. That is one of the best resolutions I have made in more than a decade, and it has really changed up how much time I devote each day to reading, and how I think about the importance [...]