There have been a few posts on the net this week about women entrepreneurs prompted from a New York Times article ‘Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley’ (Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley) by Claire Cain Miller which spoke about a woman...
I was astounded to read a post on GoRumors yesterday which outraged me ‘Google To Patent Online Promotions Via Status Messages’ by Anand Srinivasan: Websites asking new users to “spread the word” by logging into their email accounts is...
Here’s a video that is most disturbing – fun/games gone to the extreme in the future? I have a indomitable spirit of Fun (ask my kids who I tend to embarrass & my friends who usually love it) & will always try to encourage that...
When I first went to Ireland, I worked hard on a business plan & got a business visa for many years through the Justice Department. It was a long process but it was doable. I had been trying to get funding for an online matchmaking business in...
I came to the technology world late in life but it has not diluted my passion for it. I had a thriving coaching business in Dublin, Ireland after getting a business visa for many years through my business plan. I worked hard to keep the...
All the big business collapses over the last few years have exposed the lack of moral code & ethics in a lot of corporations, not to mention very unsatisfactory business models. It appears that business needs a core of ethics & integrity to...
‘Pay It Forward’ was a brilliant movie – so inspiring & very sad at the end. Its obvious from the economic challenges of the last few years that if we focus on benefit to others that we also benefit. If we focus on only...
There have been a few conversations on the net this past week about advertising and ad blocking. Many people have been complaining that ad blocking is hurting good sites who depend on advertising revenue. Ars Technica posted an article ‘Why...
There is a big debate going on in the blogosphere about whether you can learn to be an entrepreneur or whether it is genetic. I believe its a mixture of both. Over at Techcrunch Vivek Wadhwa wrote a post Can Entrepreneurs Be Made...
Check out this great video “In The Valley” by Richter Scales at TechCrunch Crunchies. Brilliant, enjoy… Techcrunch recently posted an article ‘Silicon Valley: You and Some of your VC’s Have a Gender Problem‘ by...