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 ...

Starting tomorrow, i'm helping organize the biggest geekapalooza north of SXSW: Web 2.0 Expo runs all week in San Francisco .  along with Brady Forrest & Jen Pahlka, i'm co-chairing the largest gathering of nerds in the free world (disneyland for nerds, some might even say :) For the past s...

I've written before that while most people realize how dominant Google is in search, they don't realize how dominant Google is in web analytics . and imho, even fewer people understand why Google is placing such a huge bet on analytics (& checkout, & a/b testing), which i believe is required...

note: this isn't an April Fool's post, at least not intentionally... Semantic Web , WTF?  Nigga please, tell me something i give a shit about. while i find the concept of a semantic web intellectually stimulating, for the most part i think it's just a lot of geeky mental masturbation (did i jus...

My friend Sonal Shah is working on a new initiative at Google.org to help fuel the growth of Small- & Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) , initially in India & Africa.  Along with Omidyar Network & the Soros Economic Development Fund, Google.org recently announced the creation of a $17M...

July 03, 2005 Revealing thoughts on gender and brains By Robert Lee Hotz Los Angeles Times   HAMILTON , Ontario — For 40 years, Thomas Harvey, a retired pathologist from Princeton, N.J., had been the quixotic custodian of the 20th century's most famous brain. In 1955, he had conducted a routine a...