Phoenix Startup Weekend...
This weekend the Phoenix Startup Weekend got underway, and at least for me it has been somewhat of a whirlwind. First, let me say what a GREAT JOB Gregg Drennan, Justin Crossman, Derek Neighbors, Sean Tierney, Steven Shaffer, Brian Shaler, the folks from Gangplank, and all of the others have done with...
Google Lively: Who Cares?...
Today Google launched their Second Life clone, called Lively. Honestly, I would question why they spent their time and resources on something like this. It is very un-Google-like, in that they are chasing other startups with such clones. Additionally, why do we need this, hasn’t Second Life’s 15...
Fire Outside of Phoenix...
Yesterday after I left work and saw the smoke plumes of the fire just west of Phoenix soon after an early season thunderstorm blew past the city. A lightning strike in the desert ignited a brush fire that is continuing to burn, now up to 2,400 acres. This afternoon the smoke cloud blew over the city,...
What makes a startup company?...
I have been searching for the last few days for the definition of what a Startup Company is, or what makes one? The best one I found thus far uses a quote from Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart regarding pornography to define it, “It is hard to define, but I know it when I see it.” In...
LifeLock: The Next TJX, or worse?...
Lastnight, while watching Download: The True Story of the Internet (once again, a great Television Series) they aired a commercial for LifeLock. I am sure you know who LifeLock is, the Tempe, AZ based company that sells credit monitoring services (or services that you can do all on your own for free)...