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I just got back from Microconf in Vegas and wanted to do a brain dump of some thoughts while they’e still fresh. This was an outstanding event in every way – killer speakers, high quality of attendee & flawless execution. I highly recommend (provided Rob and Mike …
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I had a bit of an “ah-hah” moment this past Thursday evening at the Phoenix Ableton Usergroup (a free monthly group I organize for musicians who use this piece of software). Here’s the gist of what changed in my thinking: prior to Thursday if you would have …
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“You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave…”
So I get this 2pg privacy statement in the mail from Chase telling me what rights I have to limit their ability to share my info. It basically says they have the right to share my info with other …
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Mike Fioritto joins us today on this the latest episode of Can of Awesome. Mike is the Executive Director of Product Strategy and Project Management for Tribune Media Services and was my boss back in the day in the web services department of AZCentral.com. Mike has a background …
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There’s a little startup I have a special affinity for having been in the room for its inception at the LA Startup Weekend event, standing feet away when now investor Ashton Kutcher was first pitched. I had a chance run-in with the guys weeks later in a cigar smoking circle …
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I almost titled this post Mint.com: grow a pair already. If Patzer were still running things independently he’d probably be down for the bold play of disrupting the banking industry but sadly under conservative Intuit management I doubt we’ll see this play from them …
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“War dialing” is the practice of automated sequential dialing of a block of numbers – it’s like portscanning for phones. Possibly the most classic example of this was from the movie War Games where Matthew Broderick’s character uses his computer (and …
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Let me explain. I just returned from spending the last ten days at SXSW Interactive and Music. The attendance for Interactive was just shy of 20,000 people and Music this year was apparently about 10x that number. Having attended SXSW three years back the best analogy I can give …
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Bill Ramsey is a close personal friend, mentor and business advisor for us in Scratch Audio. Having known Bill since ’95 I can vouch that he’s not only a rock for others, but he’s also a legitimate rockstar having been the original drummer for the AZ punk band …
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I drove 800mi round-trip from Phoenix to LA this weekend to help my cousin get real about launching the food truck business he’s been talking about. While I was in LA I learned via a random tweet that my trip coincided with LA Startup Weekend so I dropped in Saturday …
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