Century 21, the first choice among young, first time buyers – 1000Watt Blog
Focus groups are so critical. Even informal, unscientific ones are better than nothing. They always reveal hidden gems. Last night I found myself in the company of a dozen 27-31 years olds. None owned a home. When asked what I…
Can Amazon Make Startupping A Science? – GigaOM
Amazon (AMZN) is trying to turn the art of internet startups into a science. At an open event at Stanford yesterday, a couple hundred or so entrepreneurs, VCs, and developers talked about how Amazon Web Services — cheap and elastic storage, computing, message queuing, and payments — could change, or is already changing, their businesses.“We’re …
Looking Back To The Future of Data Centers – GigaOM
I was talking to some colleagues earlier this month about Intel’s (INTC) plan to have an 80-core processor ready for the market within five years.I’ve written about commodity computing in this space before, but this latest Intel announcement made me realize that we’re on the verge of a fundamental architectural change in the enterprise data …
Franchisors: It’s time to get back into the real estate business – 1000Watt Blog
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at a technology briefing sponsored by a major computer hardware manufacturer. The audience was a small group of executives from a large real estate corporation. I shared my perspective on how mobile…
