Archive for the 'startup' Category
ABC News Bring Themselves Into the Social Web With SocialSite
February 28th, 2009Cross-posting Rafael’s blog post about ABC News & Thingfo. From the Thingfo blog:
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During President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress, ABC News featured our SocialSite system on their main and politics pages. During the historic address, which dealt primarily with Obama’s plans to deal with the current economic crisis, a prominent […]
24 hours at Sundance, live-streaming social media event with Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Rose
January 17th, 2009www.24hoursatsundance.com is an amazing event that I’m proud to be part of. It’s a one-of-a-kind reality game, streaming live via cell phones, featuring movie/tv/internet producer Ashton Kutcher co-founder of Katalyst Media, and Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com as hosts.
4 top social media bloggers/vloggers are the contestants. And content from all over the social […]
TechCrunch August Capital 2008 — serious fun
July 27th, 2008Kick-ass roof deck? Check. Blazing Valley sun? Check. Add 1100 attendees from the tech startup world ranging from entrepreneurs, bloggers, vloggers, venture capitalists, strong mojitos and a couple of rappers (MC Hammer and Chamillionaire), and you have a must-attend Silicon Valley event.
Thingfo’s partner Mobissimo sponsored a table to demo our new […]
MobiFriends in 256 cities, and a new post on social apps
July 21st, 2008In case I hadn’t mentioned it, MobiFriends, the new travel community from Mobissimo and powered by Thingfo, launched last week. The community is growing already, with people from 256 cities and 50 countries already signed up! Amazing how quickly this spreads and I’m also impressed with Mobissimo’s international reach.
To learn more about Thingfo, […]
It could be kids, not age, that make a startup less likely
July 10th, 2007Someone was telling me that there is an age cutoff for founding a startup. According to an article from Psychology Today forwarded to me by another friend, it’s not the age that matters, it’s having kids.. and therefore needing to focus on their upbringing, which pulls an entrepreneur away from his or her startup […]
making your own reality
June 29th, 2007At a big company, an idea “isn’t real until it’s in PowerPoint”.
Sadly, you can’t exactly launch a PowerPoint.
That’d make a good presentation, though. Only one slide needed.