Three Ways to Help Vancouver Grassroots Tech
<update>Boris Mann wrote a great response entitled build more startups in Vancouver. Alan Pike also thoughtfully weighed in with homes for Vancouver startups</update> Score another victory for a Vancouver startup. The talented Romanian duo from Summify and… more
Intro-Up Launch
Super excited today to announce the launch of Intro-Up, a service that facilitates networking at Meetups by matching you to one person before the Meetup based on your interests. This is how we got Intro-Up… more
The World’s Most Dangerous Road
Fact: If you talk to yourself, people think you are crazy. When I was plummeting down Bolivia’s “Death Road” what people around me thought was the last thing on my mind. My outer monologue went something… more
What I have learned about Idea Validation
I have ideas. Lots of them. My head is literally overflowing with ideas. We all know, ideas are cheap and execution is everything. I have been spending alot of time recently trying to figure out… more
TouchKeyword $15,000 IRAP Doc
I am often asked about how difficult it was to get IRAP funding for the TouchKeyword project. For me, it was a 15 minute pitch and a one page summary (see below). Sounds simple right?… more
Are you clever?
I just finished reading Clever, leading your smartest, most creative people by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. These two professors at London Business School have done a great job distilling the talent of exceptional organizations… more
The One Reason Twitter Will Fail
<update>Twitter acquired Vancouver’s Summify Jan. 2012</update> There is no question that Twitter was the darling of 2009. Whole vocabularies that could fill a Twebster Dictionary were built up as people slathered and frothed their way… more
Got Aardvark?
<update> Aardvark made me an Aardvocate in August 2010. Not that I needed an excuse to promote their incredible product. Regardless, my shameless peddling has increased exponentially </update> In February 2010 Aardvark was acquired by Google. Right… more
SEO Tip – Keyword Research
There is no question that SEO is a complex topic. URLs, 404s, 301s, Google, Caffeine Updates, Yahoo is now Bing, Mobile strategy, local search, more acronyms that you can shake a stick at… and the list goes… more
Why Google Loses
This is part 2 of a series on Google. For the alternate take, read Part 1 – Why Google Wins Since its Launch in 1998, Google’s path to success has been seemingly uninterrupted and spectacular. When many… more
Why Google Wins
This is part 1 in a two part series about the future of Google. Read part 2 – Why Google Loses Google has been a part of most of our lives for the past decade…. more
How To Run A 99Designs.com Contest
Crowd sourced design is one of the best uses of internet technologies that I have seen in awhile. And no one is doing it better than 99designs.com. Earlier this year, the crowd-sourcing contest firm won… more