Conditions are right for Kickstarter (May 17th, 2010 - 1,735 views)
Diaspora got a lot of attention as they used a Kickstarter campaign to raise over $170,000 as the “open Facebook alternative”, following another round of Facebook privacy complications. In Diaspora’s Curse, Jason Fried went on to illustrate that while that’s an impressive start (if you measure victory in press coverage and cash), those things will [...]
Reworking business with Jason Fried (March 14th, 2010 - 1,008 views)
Jason Fried just spoke at SXSWi about his new book, REWORK. He reminds me of the simple reason I enjoy running The Hive entrepreneurial networking group - it is really refreshing to see people talk passionately and authentically about how they do things. Watch this video: Jason Fried is somebody I have been following since the days [...]
Pick your own editorial team (July 7th, 2009 - 2,302 views)
The chatter about how the newspaper industry is dying is massing, again, but recently I have been thinking about how my use of Twitter has been replacing their key value-generator. Years ago you read newspapers not just for national news but local news, global news, sport, weather, marriages, births, deaths, real estate, cars, jobs, travel, [...]
Big Omaha – Jason Fried and Gary Vaynerchuk (May 30th, 2009 - 1,620 views)
Today I watched two guys talk about the future of business and I think they are on the money so I wanted to share them. They spoke at BIG Omaha, an event that ran for two days earlier this month: What happens when the country’s foremost creatives, entrepreneurs and innovators descend on one place? That place explodes. [...]
