Today was my first full day wearing Google Glass. While I purchased Glass a couple weeks ago, I showed uncommon restraint waiting until Christmas Day to open the box. After working through the initial setup and selecting my Glassware, I took Google Glass for an official spin today. Below is…
Where would Boston technology be without coffee? Could our current and former technologists have created the telephone, venture capitalism, the Harvard Mark, the PDP-1, Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, or Facebook without coffee? Okay, the later might have been been more Red Bull and beer, but you get the sentiment. ;) A good…
Okay, I promise this is the last quote. There were three sections that really stood out for me in The Lost Interview: the dynamic range of the best, the hard work and craft in building great products, and content vs. process. This is the quote for the latter. “People get…
I tend to read books in themes. The topic of the last few weeks has been tech company history. Here is what is in my Kindle / Audible library. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal Hatching Twitter tells the story from the start of podcasting startup…
"Many companies get the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90 percent of the work. And if you just tell all these other people here’s this great idea then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem with that is that…
My last year at a Fortune 100 tech company, I did a fair amount of technical due diligence in support of M&A activities. In this role, I would fly into a company for a couple days to assess the value / risks of their product, technology, people and process…