Excellent article on re-thinking the mobile experience

Great entrepreneur and long-time super friend @davis_danny has a terrific article out on re-thinking the way you create a compelling mobile experience. My favorite bit: “Limiting the content and functionality of the mobile experience — and freeing your mind from tying it to the desktop version — allows you to develop something truly exceptional. While…

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Those lunatiks over at Kickstarter have done it again

Have I  mentioned how much I love Kickstarter? This entire genre of “micro-funding” is incredibly exciting to me. Whereas the only way businesses could really get funded before was through angel or VC funding (don’t tell me loans from banks, because if you’re a new business there’s no bank that will help you…I know this…

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The new killer differentiator isn’t what you think

Design is the new black. Or the new viral. Or, “what’s next”. You want to know what you should focus on in 2012? Think its more Facebook, or mobile, or some kind of NFC something or other? Nope. It’s the design of your product or service and specifically, the design of the experience that your…

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The difference between Apple and everyone else

This snippet from a Fortune interview with Walter Isaacson seems to put a fine point on what makes Apple different than every other company today.    I do think at Apple you have engrained in the DNA not just being tough on suppliers, but driving engineering to make a product as insanely great as it…

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