Many entrepreneurs believe that the key to success is listening to their customers. That’s great advice if you are looking for feedback on product quality, your service, your market, your competitors, incremental improvements, their needs. Some companies look to their customers for vision. If the customer isn’t asking for the next big thing, then the…
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Today was the kickoff of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference which runs through June 10th. In case you were not one of the Apple fans that slept on the streets of San Francisco camped out in front of the Moscone Center last night and did not get a chance to watch the action real-time or…
Read MoreIn an O’Reilly Radar report, mobile evangelist Jason Grigsby (@grigs) captures two mobile trends that might be surprising. Much unlike the desktop market, which has long been dominated by Windows with MacOS running a distant second, mobile devices are seeing increased fragmentation in operating systems. At the same time, web standards are bringing mobile web…
Read MoreAccording to a report in the NYTimes, Twitter has acquired Tweetie the popular iPhone and Mac application created by Atebits. Tweetie is by far my favorite Twitter application for the iPhone so it is no surprise that Twitter would rather acquire it than reinvent the wheel. Atebits is made up of just one employee, founder…
Read MoreWow, Steve Jobs and Apple really know how to hijack your day with the show and tell of another innovative product that starts with “i”. This time it’s the Apple iPad. Yes, that is really it’s name. I decided to live blog the event and this is how it all went down… 12:30 pm EST…
Read MoreImage attribution thanks to Gizmodo & gdgt. Apple has been rumored for some time to have working on a new gadget, a tablet computer, for release in the spring of 2010. The tablet-style computer device, according to TechCrunch and MacRumors will be called the Apple iSlate. It’s a slate with similar touch screen form factor…
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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