Originally posted on Gigaom:
Media and entertainment startups are certainly a dicey area of innovation, and in hearing pitches Tuesday morning, I wondered if they’ve read the news recently. In a short series of demonstrations at DEMO 2012 on Tuesday in Santa Clara, we heard someone pitch, “we’re trying to do for videos what Instagram…

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Originally posted on Gigaom:
Evan Henshaw-Plath is one of those entrepreneurs who’s surprisingly under the radar in comparison to the integral role he’s played in the development of some key web tools — he was the first employee and lead architect of Odeo, which later became Twitter, and was the architect of Yahoo Brickhouse’s Fire…

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Originally posted on Gigaom:
As Facebook’s stock continues to slide, amid what appears to be growing skepticism about its future revenue prospects, there has been a consistent drumbeat of opinion around a single thought: Should Mark Zuckerberg be replaced as chief executive officer of the company he created? Some critics of the company — not…

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Harsh Reality of Entrepreneurship

  Entrepreneurship can look very glamorous from the outside in. Looking at people doing what they love and the media showcasing the fortunes made by mergers and acquisitions in the 8-9 figures can be very tempting but is that the reality of entrepreneurship? Is entrepreneurship truly working a few years of your life so you […]

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In the pursuit of happiness

Happiness is the desire of most people.  But the number of folks who miss it is appalling. Instead of living in the sunshine of happiness, they are dwelling under the cloud of gloom.  The road they follow leads to the swamp of despair instead of the garden of happiness.  This need not be. There are […]

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