Yesterday, I spent a bigger chunk of time than I care to admit trying to get my wife’s 3GS iPhone back in working order after a failed attempt to upgrade to the iOS4 operating system. Luckily, we got it working without having to send it in to Apple and without spending the $199 they told [...]
There was a good article in today’s New York Times about business incubators.
Can anybody guess the number of incubators? I was stunned (maybe I shouldn’t have been) that there are over 1200, and they have their own association group.
Incubators often house a large collection of different types of business – small and medium sized businesses [...]
I wrote recently about the rise of what I call agile hardware and this is a trend and industry that continue to fascinate me. I am always on the lookout for startups and investments in this nascent industry.
One of the most fascinating aspects of agile hardware are the set of hardware accessories that work with [...]
I can still remember sitting at my desk in the dorm in 1989, studying my latest chemistry textbook and believing that we only had 75 more years of fossil fuels before we would run out (what next?) and that man was causing global warming with all the CO2 we were generating.
This won’t be a rigorously [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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Well, now it’s official – Amazon has finally broken a tiny crack in the tough outer shell of their Kindle, a nearly microscopic one… the BIG news about allowing lending your Kindle eBooks from one device to another is official.
The upshot is that I can now choose to make the eBooks that I [...]
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As I mentioned in one of my last posts, I am a happy new owner of the Motorola Droid, running the Android OS on Verizon. I promised to spell out which apps I am enjoying most, so here is a list of some of my favorite ones:
Screebl – top of my list, one [...]