Joakim Vars Nils articulates in 102 slides (yes a long one) why empowering people is key in marketing. If you don’t have time to go through the deck, I summarize and highlight the best parts of his deck below. People …

Check out the words in this deck… excellent. Now this is a woman I have to meet.

Due to the amount of time I spend on Facebook, I am now syndicating my blog posts to it. Sadly they don’t syndicate the comments back. It makes sense because they want to own the discussion i.e. the advertisement impressions. …

Great article and especially great chart showing private vrs VC funded companies from the 90s and beyond. Will Twitter with ~155M raised to date be the next Webvan or PayPal? Read what the Wall Street Journal has to say about …

I had a talk with Ray Valdes about my skepticism around the twitter business model. Don’t get me wrong, I think Twitter has huge value. I just question the grandiose valuation of 15 Billion dollars. Why? Well for one, I …

Okay, so a couple of years ago I bought a Mac and felt regret. While there were moments of being overjoyed e.g. seeing my photographs with more vivid colors, iMovie editing, iChat, and a unix based OS; for the most …

“He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does not risk and change the color of his clothes, who does not speak and does not experience, dies slowly. He …

Irene got a video of some of us surfing this past weekend in the Wenatchee @ 8000cfs. I’m the last kayaker in the video, yellow boat and green helmet.

The WSJ just released an article foretelling that small to mid size banks will be losing ~100 Billion in capital this year due to commercial real-estate investments. Joe Weisenthal of Yahoo’s TechInsider goes on to say, it isn’t just the big banks that …

I’m nervous to the point of panic, the kind of panic that makes your mouth dry.  I realize as I am filming Bruno descend over the crest of the waterfall that there is no way for me to portage.  I …