well, actually less than half that... really only 7 minutes on the new Press:Here TV with Scott McGrew, Sarah Lacy, and Jon Swartz (also segments by Guy Kawasaki & Joshua-Michele Ross).   hardly my best performance, but hey i'm doing my best to stay on top of the Silicon Va...

Not many people labeled as Visionary really deserve the title.   Reid Hoffman definitely does.   He's proven it multiple times, both as an EVP at PayPal & founder/CEO/Chairman at LinkedIn, and as an insightful & early angel investor at Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Flickr...

ya know it's hard out here for a pimp when he tryin' to get his money for the rent. for the cadillacs and gas money spent cuz' a whole lot of bitches talkin' shit . well for what it's worth, i did make rent this month, G. but lemme tell you, it ain't easy being a Web 2.0 P-I-...

yeah, that's a super long-ass headline, i know... it's a personal soundbite from a Stanford BASES E-Challenge panel discussion i participated in earlier tonight over on campus.  probably plenty of other people have said something similar previously, but i'll at least claim some ori...

This past summer, I did a presentation called " Facebook Big Pimping " for some entertainment execs down in LA.  The presentation was about using Facebook, social networking platforms, news feeds, & apps to drive content distribution & commercial transactions.  It was f...

Steve Blank  is a pretty sharp guy, and one of the best folks in the valley on technology marketing.  He teaches at both Stanford and Haas/Berkeley, and besides being an academic he's been involved in several startups and actually knows his shit.  His book "The Four Steps to the ...

[note: this post was originally a comment on TechCrunch post summarizing Max Levchin's panel on web platforms from the Web 2.0 Summit, with Facebook, MySpace, Google, & Microsoft.  i decided since my comment went past 3 paragraphs, i should probably expand it on my own blog...] this is gros...

Now this is what i call work. Me & Saya & the kids are headed to Hawaii in the morning. We're arriving at Kona on the Big Island, spending a few days at the Fairmont Orchid to relax & schmooze w/ hoi-polloi @ The Lobby .  Saya's parents & grandma are also flying in from Tokyo to...

wow.  gotta say, this guy has balls... as in cojones the size of cantaloupes. Dave Cortright , if i'm fighting a guerrilla war and need a design done that will kill El Presidente, you are my man. best slide i've ever seen to get a point across... bar none . a great vision is: focused on people ...

Can you explain why High Finance is/isn't Going to Hell in a Handbasket in 30 slides or less?  Terrific.  Enter the SlideShare Credit Crisis Contest (C^3) and you might win an iTouch, Nano, or Shuffle.  (yeah we know the prizes are cheap, but listen up mofo we're trying to preserve ca...