Connecting the dots of life and business

Two of my new friends from my Bay Area Visit are hosting Facebook conferences. I’m getting out of a previous event in hopes I can attend. Noah Kagan is hosting Community Next: Platform and Dave McClure is hosting Graphing Social Patterns two loaded events dedicated to the Facebook plaform.
Both conferences are in early [...]

I’ve blogged quite a bit about my bay area visit and there are still 15 more videos to post (I swear they’ll get up). If you’ve watched my videos, you’ll obviously see I met some really cool people. Unfortunately Dave McClure was an awesome guy to chat with, but we met during Lunch [...]

Dan Scudder, a Boston native and founder of DormItem.com spent his summer with a valley startup, Rapleaf.com. This is part two of our chat during my Bay Area Visit. We sit down to discuss how an entrepreneur outside the valley feels once he’s immersed in the startup epicenter.

This is part two of my interview with Robin Wolaner. We discuss the benefits she’s seen of social networking for both her startup and personally. Specifically, she references examples of LinkedIn and even MySpace.
If you’re catching up, be sure to catch the first part of our talk, then head over to LinkedIn and add [...]

Facebook isn’t the only site garnering attention from college kids. Dan Scudder founded DormItem.com, a site that aggregates items for sale by college kids. He has a couple revenue models and is currently a student at Babson College. This is the first of four video clips from my interview with Dan. If you’re [...]

If you don’t know Robin Wolaner by name, you know her great work. Her career includes founding Parenting magazine along with launching Martha Stewart Living and Vibe magazines. She is also the author of a great book you NEED to buy called “Naked In the Boardroom.”
The point I’m making is she’s a player, she’s [...]