12 Collaborative Services for Success at Work

This post was originally posted on Shareable, the leading website on the growing movement. Top photo credit: Yusuke Kawasaki. The collaborative economy empowers ordinary people to share their unused resources, such as time and goods, often in a peer-to-peer commerce model. We tend to think of this model impacting us as individuals, as illustrated in […]

Collaborative Economy Markets

Marketplaces. They’re all the rage. In fact, the media can’t stop talking about them, people can’t stop searching for them, and investors have deployed $2.4 billion in just the last seven months. So what’s a marketplace all about? First of all, it’s not a new concept. It predates Airbnb and even the birth of the […]

Self-Driving Cars Disrupt the Crowd

Google and Uber are building self-driving cars, it’s rumored that Apple is going to be building self-driving cars, Tesla has launched driver-assistance features, and many traditional auto manufacturing companies are advancing their features to include driver assistance and, eventually, automation. Ride sharing and car sharing pave the way for the self-driving car industry. Ride sharing […]

Your Tech Startup Doesn’t Need to be in Silicon Valley.

My long-time, close friend, Chris Saad, wrote a helpful essay on 39 tips for startups. He shares many suggestions, based on his personal experience, in the startup world, from his home country of Australia, and in Palo Alto, and in the heart SF’s tech district SoMa. While I agree with 38 of his tips and […]

Weird Economics in 2020: Tech & Business

There’s no doubt about it, 2020 has been a crazy year and overshadowing everything has been the COVID-19 pandemic. The economy was up and is now broken, supply chains have been disrupted, political upheaval is ongoing, and Brexit looks as if it will actually happen. Moreover, many other oddball things also happened such as: In […]

Finding Reality in a Deluge of Utopia

The seasoned attendee knows that only a fraction of these products will come to fruition and for those. Wide adoption will take years. Additionally, not all that glitters is gold. There are some pitfalls that both consumers and companies need to be wary of such as “data leakage” as sensors and devices become cheap and […]