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After decades of frugal living in rural Maine, my mother spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain a decent standard of care during her years of decline. And so might you. But it doesn’t have to be that way. While technology has not emerged…
January 26, 2022
Article at Innovation Leader
When data-enabled mobile phones arrived over 20 years ago they promised to extend the wave of Internet adoption beyond the PC to anywhere consumers wanted to roam. Email under the table during boring meetings? sure. Text-based games in the bathroom?…
February 13, 2021
Article at medium
One morning at our local bagel shop I watched as a tall man in skinny jeans approached to order, still scanning his iPhone 11 and intently push-pulling through the posts of some app or other. Standard behavior these days of course, but what happened…
December 08, 2020
Article at linkedin.com
WASHINGTON—AARP has been named one of Fast Company’s 2020 Best Workplaces for Innovators. Now in its second annual year, the list honors businesses and organizations that demonstrate a deep commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels. AARP…
August 02, 2020
Article at linkedin.com
A conversation at the United Nations Crossing off "speaking at the UN" is not something I ever imagined having the privilege to do. (As life goals go, it's a good one.) But this Fall I was surprised by an invitation from the United Nations via my…
November 27, 2019
Article at linkedin.com
When data-enabled mobile phones arrived over 20 years ago they promised to extend the wave of Internet adoption beyond the PC to anywhere consumers wanted to roam. Email under the table during boring meetings? sure. Text-based games in the bathroom?…
May 13, 2019
Article at medium
"It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David." This quote is commonly attributed to Michelangelo in response to Pope Julius II's question about how he was able to produce such a masterwork. No evidence indicates the exchange ever…
February 05, 2019
Article at linkedin.com
It’s lunch time, but Larry Kramer is not eating. He’s too busy reviewing the new iPad edition of USA Today, comparing it against the Web, taking a call and attending to a blogger all at once. Then there’s the nasty cold that would keep some people…
December 06, 2017
Article at HuffPost
At the outset, Ourglass, based in Campbell, Calif., thought it was going to be selling hardware products to bars and restaurants. But why do that when you can give all that away and sell lucrative sponsorships? And how? By making the TV smarter of…
May 31, 2017
Article at Street Fight
I can’t say I’m proud of working my way through the vices in this column. But if I do get to sloth, please somebody stop me. Let’s see, there was that time I wrote about an app to help you party and hook up with foreigners when you travel. Then of…
May 15, 2017
Article at Street Fight
How many times have you been stuck in traffic trying to get to the gym before the window closes and you need to be at work or home for dinner? I’m betting for many of you it’s a lot — certainly is for me. But suppose that gym on the other side of a…
May 03, 2017
Article at Street Fight
This was originally published on Street Fight Marketers using mobile phones to connect real-time data and buyer-intention to drive and measure consumer foot traffic is a tired vision of the future from last year … it has more to do with our past than…
April 20, 2017
Article at linkedin.com
Marketers using mobile phones to connect real-time data and buyer-intention to drive and measure consumer foot traffic is a tired vision of the future from last year … it has more to do with our past than our future. It’s so 2016. How about cars…
April 19, 2017
Article at Street Fight
We’ve all been there — asked to open our address books so a software tool could swipe our contacts and email friends or neighbors to help spread the word about something of interest, or include them in the cool new app we just discovered. These days…
April 11, 2017
Article at Street Fight
I love you. What are the best shampoos to fight hair loss? When does the next season of Girls begin? Find local spas with a male masseur. What is the average weight of a 5’7” woman? Please make a dinner reservation for our anniversary. Find the…
March 31, 2017
Article at linkedin.com
I love you. What are the best shampoos to fight hair loss? When does the next season of Girls begin? Find local spas with a male masseur. What is the average weight of a 5’7” woman? Please make a dinner reservation for our anniversary. Find the…
March 23, 2017
Article at Street Fight
Creating a business is harder than you think. Even if you’ve done it before, your recollections are likely whitewashed by a self-preserving subconscious — a salve to the many pains of creating something from nothing and trying to keep it…
February 07, 2017
Article at Street Fight
Were I to count the ways mainstream news outlets, hyperlocals and other hopefuls have tried to tackle the challenge of successfully covering local news for a mobile audience (which is to say… everyone), I’d need more hands. This is not to imply prior…
January 18, 2017
Article at Street Fight
A GasBuddy for pot? Why not? At least that seems to be the conclusion of one Seattle-based entrepreneur, whose location-based pricing-and-reviews service wants a slice of what he estimates will be an $8 billion industry in 2017. Dan Nelson started…
December 20, 2016
Article at Street Fight