What to Celebrate In The Valley An interview with Tim Cook A coffee with Mark, Marissa has a tale for sure Elon’s got 1000 companies to discuss There’s robots and rockets, the blockchain and bitcoin the death of Moore’s law…
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How California’s Outsourced Company for Ticket Revenue Is Scamming You There are start ups all over California. I like them. Now, I would like to propose a start down. It’s time to go, Data Ticket, you are not good for California…
REMEMBERING RUSTY Love from Ann ==== MAKE FULL SCREEN=== Silicon Valley is a very big story from apricots to autonomous vehicles to augmented reality and artificial intelligence. It’s exciting and transformative. It is overwhelming and fabulous. It’s sad…
Diversity problem in Silicon Valley? Big time. I was going to write about something else but when I opened this email for a new meet-up: http://www.meetup.com/WHITE-STARTUP-INVESTORS-AND-FOUNDERS/ and my jaw dropped, and my brain went to the news today…
Disruption, change the world, make it a better place – these are phrases heard all the time in Silicon Valley. There are start ups everywhere – in my garage I have a palm ID biometric tech start…
As I took the pic, a homeless woman asked me: is someone spending the night here? What followed was a great conversation and here’s a shout out to Annette on University Ave and her one year of sobriety after…
Funny Money A funny thing happens when a place inside of America makes a lot of money. Politicians take notice. With the 2014 midterm elections just around the corner, Silicon Valley is quickly becoming a goto place for political…
PROSTITUTION AS A CAREER? Your daughter? Sister? Oh, not ok for them? This post has a humane and good for girls agenda and if you absolutely will be bored, do me a favor and read it anyway. For a female…
RESOLUTION: iRobot “gave” us seven days to respond. We did so within 48 hours and they have abandoned their request we “give them” our name. It’s hard to argue with ICANN, Tim Berners Lee and local case law, especially…
DON’T AGE US WITH NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES ON AGING. Poor Jason Cipriani. He just wanted to write an article about dumbing down your smartphone (!!) for CNET and the wrath of the boomer generation rained on his parade. Looks like…