Archive for: October, 2008
Free 2008 Berkeley >Play Conference Tickets
I was invited to moderate a panel about new technology on November 15th at the great Berkeley >Play Conference. A very cutting edge tech conference at my alma mater (yes, I’m officially old now) that will have: founder of Twitter, EVP of Zynga, CEO of Jaxtr and more… So they are giving me 2 free [...]
Startup Stories: Pharmahelper.com aims for lower drug prices
Pharmahelper is a drug search engine that helps you find the lowest prices for prescription drugs. Huge market, check. Competition, not too much online. Great margins, yuop. I got a chance to talk to the founders and here’s their story. What gave you the idea to get into it? We were interested in starting up [...]
Why Google should buy Yelp? And how wrong I was;(
I was just adding another bookmark to Yelp.com and realized they added some Google ads to their site. See pic below. I really hate when people make wild predictions about someone should buy someone so I’ll apologize ahead of time. I was talking to someone yesterday who was saying Google was dumb to buy YouTube. [...]
Green? Check out the Opportunity Green Conference
One of the first people to buy a ticket to my original Community Next event was Karen and Mike. They enjoyed the event (I think) and then went off to create an impressive conference called Opportunity Green in Los Angeles. It’s all about green business sustainability and profitability. I was able to speak there last [...]
Why should you read Scratch Beginnings? Straight from the author…
I asked this question to Adam Shepard who wrote Scratch Beginnings which is a great story of him starting from nothing (literally) in a town and what happens 6 months later… Why should anyone read this book and what will they get out of it? There are a couple of reasons to read this book… [...]
Startup Stories: SsasyChic.com founder, Crystal Marchand
Recently my business partner’s wife Crystal quit her day job teaching to explore one of her passions, fashion. Many people are unhappy with there day jobs and just sit in there cubicles and do nothing. I was impressed that she took the plunge to try something new and here’s her story starting ssasychic.com a fashion [...]
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