“Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” To Help Understand The TV World On Twitter
Just announced on Nielsen’s website, and the Twitter blog is a partnership between the two to launch a syndicated-standard metric around the reach of the TV conversation on Twitter. It’s slated to...
View Article$700M Raise For Sequoia Global Growth Fund
First noted on TechCrunch, and then on Gigaom, Sequoia Capital, the well known venture capital firm, has just done a filing with the SEC to raise $700M for a global growth fund, which TechCrunch is...
View ArticleThe Problem With Entrepreneurship
Being an entrepreneur is hard. In fact, it’s probably one of the hardest things you could ever do. Being an Iraq war vet, that served in a specialty combat platoon during the surge of 07, I can say...
View ArticleAOL On Launches TV App With Xbox 360
AOL recently announced that its App, AOL On, which delivers short form content and videos from popular web properties, is now available for the Xbox 360. The AOL On app will give Xbox LIVE users access...
View ArticleA Deep Look Into The New MySpace – It’s Here, And This Is What It Looks Like
The new Myspace is here. For a lot of us that requested invites to join when the service was ready, we got the invites and started playing around. So we created a profile, dug around the service, and...
View ArticleDropBox Acquiring Y Combinator Company Snapjoy
Just reported on VentureBeat, is the news that Dropbox, the widely used file sharing and storage company, is acquiring a 2011 Y Combinator company called Snapjoy. Snapjoy, called the “smart photo...
View ArticleOn Entrepreneurship: Why Definition Is The Mother Of Progress
Entrepreneurship can work really well if you take a lot of massive action, but clearly defined massive action works a lot better, and creates a lot less stress. Massive action Getting things done will...
View ArticleAmplfy 2.0, The Social Media Management Platform Built By Rocket Scientists
Recently we posted about the launch of Salorix’s updated Amplfy product, which is an artificial intelligence driven social media management platform. But in the last few days, we had a conversation...
View ArticleWhy The Reverse Engineering Part Of Learning Ruby On Rails Makes Sense
So I’m learning RoR (Ruby on Rails), and I’ve been amazed at a specific way of learning it (the way that http://guides.rubyonrails.org) teaches you. I’ve worked with CodeAcademy, which is a website...
View ArticleRapidly Growing Vertical Display Ad Network Says NO To VC Money
Media Strike, an LA based ad display network, did around a million in revenue in year one, on track to do 5 million plus in year two, and have recently brought on their 900th publisher, making them the...
View ArticleAngelList Reaches $12M In Investments On The Site This Month
Just caught a tweet from Angellist about the amount of money invested in startup companies in the month of December, and it’s staggering. Angellist, the well known site that connects investors with...
View Article2013 – Where Intellects, Geeks, And Entrepreneurs Converge
It’s amazing to look back over the last 15 years and see the pattern that people are either intellects, geeks (smart technical people), or entrepreneurs. The intellects are the analysts, the guys who...
View ArticleResume Startup Perzue Helps People Stand Out in the Business World
We recently had a conversation with Richard Zeitz, the CEO of a pretty rad resume startup called Perzue. Launched in January 2012, Perzue helps people looking for jobs stand out to possible employers....
View ArticleBDNF Extension? The Ultimate Mental Performance Enhancer
Exercise is crucial to having great mental performance and feeling good. One of the first questions I ask people I want to work with at any level is “do you exercise a lot?” It helps our bodies...
View ArticleUse This Productivity Software – It’s Called PROTEIN
The world is riddled with productivity software and ways to manage your to do lists. Everywhere you look there’s software being built to help you manage your life better, but very rarely do we take...
View ArticleReforming Productivity
Maybe this is an appropriate title. I think that productivity needs reforming. A lot of people, like Tim Ferriss, David Allen from GTD, and plenty of others have been influencing a message of...
View Article5 Things That May Be Injuring Your Mental Performance
Mental performance, if you’re anything other than a guy who moves mattresses from one side of the warehouse to another all day, is the make or break factor of your life. If injured, depression can more...
View ArticleWhy Caffeine Is Not Always A Good Work Drug
We all know and love our caffeine. Everything from 2 cups of regular coffee a day, to our now Starbucks filled reality with huge Venti drinks (and now, Trenta), our society is hooked on coffee. And so...
View ArticleWhy Happiness, Fulfillment, And Productivity Are Brothers In The Work Scenario
I worked for a company in PA, where I did sales, led new initiatives, and managed a team of developers and web designers. The company was successful, but I wasn’t happy. I was worked to the bone, and...
View ArticleHow I Learned My Lesson About Sleep And Cognitive Performance
We live in a strange strange place. So strange that the truth gets slashed away and refilled with these ideas that are brought on by the structure of the work day, leaving people confused, tired,...
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