Live By the Calendar – Part 2
Last week, I suggested I might start a new blog series called Hall of Lame, each week highlighting a website that falls short. I said the first selection would be Best Western, which for now I will have to label Worst Western. In spite of my rant about the calendar issue, I was able to […]
Live By the Calendar
This week, 12 years ago, I was writing Net Attitude. The basic premise underlying my book was that the web was at its infancy and we had only seen 2% of the potential it offered to simplify our lives. I asserted that websites that did not live up to their potential were a victim of […]
Brainyard
Somehow I got on a mailing list from brainyard. The mailings were not malicious or obnoxious, but just not something I find of interest. Therefore, I clicked unsubscribe and was taken to their process for getting removed from their list. The name “brainyard” implies that the people there are very smart. Perhaps they are, but […]
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck — What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business is a new book by Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington, and Tsun-Yan Hsieh. I first met Tony Tjan in 2006 when he was doing some consulting work for Knovel Corporation in New York, where I am […]
Genesys XVIII
The 18th Annual Genesys Partners Venture Dinner — Gen XVIII– Monday night at the Union League Club in New York attracted more than 100 venture capitalists, investors, journalists, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. As always, Jim Kollegger — CEO of Genesys Partners and one of the pioneers of the information industry — was an elegant master […]
