Have you been following 3D printing ? Recently Makerbot, the consumer oriented 3D printing company was sold to Stratesys ((Nasdaq: SSYS), acquired Makerbot, a Brooklyn-based startup for $402 million. Stratesys was responding the the success of the Cube, another consumer oriented 3D printer marketing by 3D Systems (Nasdaq:DDD) and sold through Staples. While consumer oriented… Read more
I am in San Francisco this week for the amazing Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference. At yesterday’s keynote there were 10,000 people sitting in a single room watching a really impressive presentation. But while that was going on, I was actually glued to a video feed with updates on the birth of our nation’s newest industry… Read more
It really DOES change everything. Especially if you wish you didn’t have to lug around a bigger PC to do e-mail, make presentations, and surf the web – – which is what most of us use our laptops for. You can already find plenty of video content at the Apple web site going over the… Read more
This is the third in a three part series that are excerpts from my talk “Managing and Running a Startup”. They work along with the CEO Roadmap that I covered in an earlier blog. The number one dilemma for a startup CEO is maintaining perspective – – taking a step back from the business and… Read more
It’s true. The first “tweets” were send in the 1920’s and 30’s by radio operators desperate to reach an audience with the least possible number of characters ! That’s right, Twitter is the internet version of a very old idea. Twitter’s success highlights the idea that one of the the real values of Twitter is… Read more
Here we are at one of those rare perfect storms that will be a major turning point for periodicals and newspapers. Everything changes in the next 12 months – five times faster than it took the music industry to come to grips with the iTunes model and a new world order. Events are lining up… Read more
