#7. PRACTICE THE ART OF COLLISION The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is a metaphor for life. What seems completely new is often just an unexpected combination of the familiar but previously disconnected. This is Innovation 101, but too often we forget, and think the one asset we have is the...

This year, 46% of retail sales will be influenced by the web – but more than 90% of total retail transactions will occur in-store, from small neighborhood boutiques to national chains *. No matter where our users are shopping, we want to help them find your products. – Google Product...

Golden Rule of Branding: Choose a name that is your URL Don’t choose anything that paints you in a corner. With the word “tweet” in it, it’s painted into a corner. – Mark Suster, referring to TweetUp at 6:11 into This Week in Venture Capital #2 with Mark...

In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn… Yin yang are complementary opposites within a greater whole. Everything has...

How to turn an unknown social network of yours into your kids safety net and maybe even help you start connecting too. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. – Bill Gates Background I have two start-up projects underway. The first, Twetailer was inspired by...