I overheard a Mormon (both a political and social conservative) debating climate change and politics with a corporate sustainability strategist at the Angel Capital Summit this week.  He said, “it doesn’t matter what has come before, it’s what we do now that matters,” referencing in the first half of the comment a slightly disagreeable detente […]

It has been an exciting few weeks, with many high-end networking events in Boulder around sustainability, investing and clean tech.  While the financial crisis remains in full swing, many investors, entrepreneurs and thought leaders are looking to the future and charting the course for the next phase in the Boulder / Colorado / U.S. economy.
Trustworthy […]

Well, it took me a while.  I came off my game for almost two weeks.
But on a drive home from an inspiring meeting with Kevin (Johansen, my Business Catapult business partner and long time co-consipirator), I fully and completely transcended (and included, as the integral school teaches) the financial crisis.  That is to say, the […]

I couldn’t be more excited about getting to work with AWhere on helping design a collective intelligence engine for the UN Foundation.
Here’s a recent two-part intervew I did at the AWhere Blog with UNF change agent Kevin Starace.  In his words:
As chair of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Performance Subcommittee we’re mandated to help the […]

As part of our work in building a unique community that focuses on intelligent matching of entrepreneurs and investors, we have launched the Business Catapult blog.
Focused on the education of angel investors, and to a lesser extent, the provocation of venture capitalists, we break the blog down into three channels:

101: Investing Basics, including valuations, investment […]

It’s been a great summer over at AWhere, where breakthroughs in geo-analysis, location intelligence and busines map mashups have come one right after another.

CPG Vision lets category managers at consumer package goods companies visualize the entirety of their Retail Link data from WalMart, and correlate it with demographic data from Neilsen as well as weather […]

The New Yorker ran a great piece on the neuro-science of insight, which helps us see how we come to a place of mental inspiration.
In a nutshell, insight happens when ideas cross the hemispheres, and are acted upon in both halves of the brain.  As the article explains,
Once the brain is sufficiently focused on the […]

Theodore Geisel is one of the most influential post-war American writers.
He is the nuance…
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

It’s a never-ending sport.  With some drastic implications.
There’s ample evidence that the social networks are nothing more that the dot.com bubble revisited.  At the same time, big time players are putting heavy bets down that there’s a pot of gold out there somewhere.  So what are social networks really worth?
MIT’s Technology Review, in my opinion, […]

I’ve had a 20-year love-hate relationship with McKinsey.  When I was in my late teens, before I knew much about business, I thought I really wanted to do this kind of high-level consulting.  Then I developed a heavy aversion to strategic corporate thinking, especially corporate consultants.  But there are still really smart people there, and […]