Startups & Building

A family trip through Rome, Naples, and Copenhagen — the Sistine Chapel, the Pantheon, and Tivoli Gardens — becomes a lesson in what we build and what we leave behind.

I believe that focus is the single most important variable in the equation of execution. Yet, time and time again, I see executive teams unable to summon it.…

The words hung in the crisp Park City air, feeling more real and significant than the mountain peaks surrounding us. "I'm cancer-free."

There’s a certain magic in creation, a deep satisfaction that comes from bringing an idea to life. For me, this fascination started early, not with lines of…

I stood at the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) platform pensively waiting for my train to arrive. My brain was lost in thought thinking of whatever was…

25 years ago this summer three buddies of mine made our way across Europe. We all graduated college and were doing the customary post-graduation Eurail…

My first job out of college was with a company called Scient. Scient called itself the “The e-Buisness Innovator”. I could not have dreamed of a better place…

I enjoyed my interview with Authority Magazine on the topic of Digital Transformations — here is a link. I have no idea why they used such a large photo of…

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Congratulations to the entire MotiveCast team for being selected 1 of the the PepsiCo10 out of a pool of over 500+ startup. Nice job!

I'm pleased to announce that MotiveCast was selected in the top 20 (out of close to 500 other startups) in the PepsiCo10 — the program Pepsi created to…

Here is the official press release from PepsiCo on the PepsiCo10 competition. MotiveCast is listed under the Mobile Marketing category.

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Interesting talk at TEDxUSC by David Logan on Tribal Leadership.

Here are a few articles from this week that I found interesting:

The national unemployment rate is 8.5% according to March 2009 report released by the Bureau of Labor. In the state of California, unemployment is at 10.5%.…

Here is a nice article from Business Week entitled "What to do if your start up is failing?". Very nice, quick read.

Here is a great little article from Wired Magazine about how economic turmoil breeds innovation.

What makes a successful entreprenur? What does it mean to hire for entreprenurial qualities?

Sometimes the dumbest concepts can turn into huge ideas. Don't let conventional thought hold you back and be open to different thinking.

Plus, I know they have good teachers because I know one of them. She's a rock star (below).

It's always important when building a new products to learn from the "pains" of previous projects. Reminds me of those poor suckers that implemented the full…

Below is an except from a speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1967, on the subject of ending the Vietnam war, delivered at Riverside Church in New York…

A number of my old team members from the Mercury Diagnostics product line, which was eventually folded into HP Software went off and founded Apptio. They…

It's been over five months since leaving HP and re-joining the ranks of the startups and it has been quite the shift in experiences. The startup experience is…

This week's top Digg item is a story called Google Drive Killer Coming From MIT features a start up out of MIT called Dropbox. Basically, it provides a way to…

Did you know that 95% of email sent out in 2007 was SPAM?

I've gone through several cycles of trying to get a startups going. The most recent attempts have been trying to get an enterprise software product to market…

I really enjoyed this post on startupping.com on the 15 Startup Commandments.