Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Death of Applications (as we know them)

Today, applications as we know them are dead. The final nail has been carefully hammered into the coffin in the same way that typewriters are dead, print newspapers are dead, glossy books are dead, the telephone land line is dead, … Continue reading

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City of the Future: The Naming Effort Continues…

Great name ideas were submitted in the comments and in emails to the last post on naming the City of the Future project. After hours and hours of searching, here is a list of the domains that are now registered: … Continue reading

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VC Bloggers and the Algorithm

It’s always interesting to see VC reactions to TheFunded.com. A recent VC blog post warranted a response. For less than a day, Neuhaus Partners GmbH was rated as the #1 venture firm in the entire world. However, I happened to … Continue reading

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Cheap Fuel and a New Economy

A friend of mine, Bradley, wrote me the following email, which I thought that I would share: While traveling around the country by Jeep, I spent a little time listening to Trucker Radio. The current diesel costs and the impact … Continue reading

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A Thought

The pioneering spirit upon which we built this country with property and ownership must change. We are emnarking on a grand social experiment to find a better way.

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TheFunded.com Video: Discussing the Partner Rating and Partner Pages

TheFunded.com released individual pages for the 17,000 people that work in venture capital as part of a major re-design, exposing the previously secret partner rating. Below is a 3 minute video that gives some behind-the-scenes insights into the new offering. … Continue reading

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Energy & The Future

Complex problems can usually be stripped back to “core problems,” and the “problem simplification” approach holds true with energy. Looking at energy today, there is a complex web of interwoven issues: production, storgae, transmission, consumption, efficiency, conservation, etc. At the … Continue reading

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Speaking, My Birthday, and Appendicitis

While speaking at TheNextWeb in the Netherlands on my birthday, Thursday, April 3rd, I realized something was wrong. For some reason, I just could not fall asleep the night before and my heart was racing. The next morning, Friday, after … Continue reading

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