We see a number of trends in technology and business today, the biggest include mobile web, social media, gamification, and real-time everything. All of these elements have challenged businesses to think differently. A new book, The End of Business as Usual by Brian Solis, examines those changes as it looks to guide businesses into the…
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Consider, for a moment, all the roles that you play as an entrepreneur. Innovator, manager, marketer, enthusiast, salesman, strategist—the list goes on forever, but does it include farmer? If it doesn’t, it will by the time you finish reading Harvesting Intangible Assets. Entrepreneurs are a special kind of farmers—new agrarians, planning, planting, nurturing and cultivating,…
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I had the opportunity to meet Gary Vaynerchuk very early in his career which was transitioning from his day-to-day at a traditional brick and mortar Wine Library business to his Wine Library TV video show which propelled him to Internet stardom. Since then Gary has done the speaking circuit and has signed a seven-figure, 10-book…
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We partnered with Delivering Happiness leads Jenn Lim and Tony Hsieh to produce a video series where we talked with thought leaders, creatives and innovators. The Delivering Happiness movement stemmed from the book that Tony wrote and we previously reviewed, which then turned into a tour and now the movement. The Delivering Happiness book moved…
Read MoreWhy is it that though you are bombarded by ads from big national chain restaurants showing everyone having a grand time, you prefer to eat at your neighborhood restaurant down the street? Do you ever wonder why you’d rather go to the smaller venue? The reason is simple: it’s because of deep personal connections. When you eat at big chain restaurants,…
Read MoreThis past week we sat down with two time New York Times bestselling author Tim Ferriss. His first book, The 4 Hour Work Week, shared an inspiring manifesto for freeing you from your cubicle so you can do more of what you love, while his most recent book, The 4 Hour Body, examines all the various health…
Read MoreSilicon Valley based author and writer Sarah Lacy has a new book out, and if you are an entrepreneur, you will want to read it. Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos is about the new breed of entrepreneurs in emerging nations who create companies that change lives and…
Read MoreNew mobile apps are popping up everyday, almost as fast as websites did during the first Internet revolution. If you are developing a mobile app how do you stand out in the crowd? This is a question that developers, designers and marketers are faced with. Obviously, it all starts with the app itself. If your…
Read MoreThe Cambridge Group founder Rick Kash and Nielsen Company CEO David Calhoun have teamed together to offer businesses a new model for maximizing profits. In “How Companies Win”, the authors spell out their demand-driven model that has been a success for some of the world’s most admired companies, including Best Buy, Anheuser-Busch, Hershey’s, and Allstate….
Read MoreSam Feist, VP of Washington Programming for CNN Worldwide, said it best in the preface, “social media is now at the heart of the movement of information in this country.” If you haven’t noticed that yet, you sure will by the time you finish reading The Big Book of Social Media Case Studies, Stories, Perspectives…
Read MoreI was a big fan of Tim Ferriss’s first book The 4 Hour Work Week as it offered some tips and tricks on how to escape the 9 to 5 for a lifestyle of freedom and pleasure. The 4 Hour Work Week was a New York Times Bestseller and since then Tim has been busy…
Read MoreThis could be a troubling day for Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Apple as the eBook race just added another competitor: Google. Last week there was an announcement from Google and today they launched the Google eBookstore. But they didn’t just launch it with a few titles, Google launched with over 3 million titles, many…
Read MoreIf you’re active in social media, you’ve probably thought about reciprocity on one level or another. Perhaps someone has been very generous in re-tweeting your tweets. Maybe some person or company rep reached out and offered you some suggestions after they saw a complaint you posted online. Or maybe you’ve even created a legion of…
Read MoreWe recently published a guest post about building mobile applications by Ken Yarmosh, proprietor of a boutique mobile agency based in the Washington, D.C. area. Ken is also the author of the new book, App Savvy, published by O’Reilly, so we decided to ask him a few questions about the book, his journey and the future of mobile…
Read MoreWant to become a published author? Yeah, me too. In most cases, this is accomplished in one of two ways: Gaining recognition from one of the major publications. For 99.9% of writers, this is nothing more than a pipe dream. Self publishing and distributing an ebook. This has been the popular route for many bloggers over the…
Read MoreSince 2007, the team of Brad Feld and David Cohen has been running the TechStars incubator program and seed funding startups. The program, which started in Boulder but has quickly expanded to Boston, Seattle and New York, provides startup founders with support, advice and mentoring during the program. Some past successes have included SocialThing, Filtrbox,…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More