For those who know me personally, real football (i.e. soccer) is a passion of mine.  I grew up playing competitively and the game took me many places – the sport became a way of life to me.  Soccer put me through college and this time period in my life became a defining moment for who I [...]

I think the announcement for Startup America is fantastic news.  However, I believe that those of us practicing Lean Startup need to reach the folks leading this charge to strongly consider the ways in which they influence, teach and foster entrepreneurship.  We’ve evolved and we need not teach younger entrepreneurs the same old things. I’m [...]

Do you know how so many startups (new businesses or executives building new business divisions) set out to tackle the market with a comprehensive business plan that they’ve poured hours, days, if not weeks into building that 50 page document but have never spoken to one single customer they plan to market to?  Well, unfortunately [...]

This is an honest plug for Ash Maurya because I believe he’s really earned it and I think you should really consider getting his book if you are in the process of building a company, especially a web based software company. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend Ash’s Running Lean Workshop in Austin.  As an [...]

Last  night I attended the Austin Lean Startup Circle where Manuel Rosso and Steve Sanderson of Food On The Table gave us an overview of how they are practicing continuous deployment .  Honestly, as a marketer, I have not worked directly with a firm practicing continuous deployment and was there primarily to learn more. One of the key things [...]

Scoble has one of the coolest jobs being able to see some of the coolest and most innovative technologies on a daily basis.  I am recycling the interview he did with Veeple Founder & CEO Scott Broomfield because of my belief that interactive video technologies are one of the innovations that will continue to change [...]