The Myth of the Visionary Founder
Today Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced he would be stepping down as Twitter’s CEO. Dick Costolo, presently the firm’s COO, will take over that role. As is its custom, Twitter (the site) exploded...
View ArticleMore Tech Stuff Baltimore Needs
Occasionally we here in the burgeoning tech community in Baltimore have paused to take stock about how far we’ve come, and what would be good to do next. About a year ago, Mike Subelsky made some...
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Drop Everything and Pay Attention to Firesheep Now
Firesheep is a startling plugin that allows anyone to easily impersonate the login credentials of others for dozens of sites. It works on any unencrypted WiFi connection and is stupid-simple to setup....
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Is Groupon the new “Jesus Startup?”
50% Off Loaves and Fishes… Every few years a company emerges that grows so swiftly that it manages to define the zeitgeist and often helps to inflate a bubble that defies any rational explanation....
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The How and Why of Tech
David Lee Roth “He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.”- David Lee Roth There are 168 hours in a week and you must decide how to spend them. You’ll probably want to spend some...
View ArticleAlways Tell a Story
Thinking about what works for entrepreneurs and what doesn’t, it occurred to me that it’s not always enough to do the right things. You have to do the right things in the right order. That sounds hard....
View ArticleReal Innovation Takes Time
Combinatorial Innovation There are so many new technologies today: tablets, geolocation, video chat, great app frameworks. It is easy to cherry-pick off “combinatorial” innovations that seem...
View ArticleDesign, Affordances, Emergence, Appeal: An Innovator’s Primer
A lot of people talk about innovation in terms of fulfilling an unmet market need. Specifically, there’s a lot of emphasis on “solving problems.” (I’m looking at you, Dave McClure.) The theory is that...
View ArticleStop Talking and Build Your Business
While I’m deeply involved in entrepreneurship, breathing it day in and day out, and actively follow many discussions around it, I tend to shy away from writing about it most of the time. Why? Because...
View ArticleThe Math Behind Peoplemaps
For the last few years I’ve been working on mapping out social relationships in cities with my project peoplemaps.org. I had the chance to speak about this work recently at the TED Global conference,...
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