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What Barack Obama Could Learn from Vivek Wadhwa

January 27, 2012January 29, 2012

Ever since the presidential election of 2008, I’ve been getting progressively mad about something. I got enthralled with an administration that wanted to connect with people in the social era …

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Enough About You

October 14, 2011October 14, 2011

I remember when I first joined online communities. How foreign it all felt. Who was “out there” that I was tweeting to? Who was going to read the blog that …

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Online is the New City

October 8, 2011October 8, 2011

Richard Florida, the Atlantic editor recently wrote: “Cities are our greatest invention, not because of the scale of their infrastructure or their placement along key trade routes, but because they …

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Humanize Thru Trust

October 3, 2011October 4, 2011

“Do you trust him/her?” The answer to that question determines a lot – whether you follow a leader, and whether others follow you. Given the centrality of this tenant to, …

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It’s Tribes Not Herds

September 23, 2011September 23, 2011

Twitter lets people find nuggets of ideas, gather and share sentiment, and –most importantly – helps people to find one another. It’s become customary to do “Follow Fridays” (in twitter …

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5 Opportunities in ECommerce (Trend)

July 20, 2011July 21, 2011

I’m an insane online shopper. Online wins over in-person for several reasons. One is research based; if I pick well, I only need to pick a few things that last. …

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Want It? Do Your Homework.

April 27, 2011August 24, 2011

A CEO of a software company reaches out to me recently, and asks me to take a 20-minute meeting to review his strategy/execution software because it was a match to …

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Is TED Elite?

March 6, 2011December 1, 2019

I see a lot of interesting myths perpetuated about TED, and while I risk being seen as a TED-promoter, I want to take them head-on and — perhaps — help …

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Bearing Witness

February 12, 2011April 5, 2018

We were all apart of the #Egypt revolution. Not in the way that Nicholas Kristof, a journalist, or Shervin Pishevar, an activist, were, and certainly not the way that the …

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