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10 Tips for working from home.
Reading Time: 4 minuteshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/harawish/ Set a schedule – Setting a schedule is vital to be effective in a home office. When working from home, all your distractions are right at hand. You are in the exact same environment that you are in during the weekend when you have time to relax, so it’s easy to fall into the … Read more
Unison Kills It At Finovate 2017 San Jose
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFlawless presentation of their fundamental financial technology innovation. Practice makes perfect. Are home ownership investments fintech? What is technology? To medieval merchants, the invention of gold certificates was financial technology. Today, people first think of user interfaces and data systems when they think of fintech. Fundamental paradigms shifts like Unison’s are hard to recognize as being technological … Read more
Finovate San Jose: Cool Fintech
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuantiacs: Provides a toolset for traders to create and back test algorithmic trading strategies based on market signals. Traders can create algorithms, back test them on historical data from the last 27 years, and then incubate the algorithm for 6 months to see if it works. The company then connects successful algorithms with investors. The … Read more
Panaderia Branding – La Victoria
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLa Victoria Bakery, a 60-year-old Mexican bakery on 24th Street was a pillar of the community, one of the first Mexican businesses bustling Irish-Italian neighborhood. But just as the Latino family community lent its culture to the old neighborhood, the area was changing again with influx of new tech workers who were looking for something … Read more
SF Bike to Work Day May 9
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRide your bike to work and come by to the Ferry building 7:30 – 9:30 AM on May 9th to see me and pick up your schwag bag. If you join SF Bicycle Coalition, you get the super deluxe bag.
Cold Running
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnfortunately I have had my training for a marathon derailed for 2 weeks. A nasty cold turned into a lung infection which just lingered with all this darn rain. So I am wondering now how I get back up into the groove where I am pushing for 20 mile runs to get ready for a … Read more
Pinterest Snark
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI think it is only a matter of time until we see more Pinterest snark. The form has already been cast by sites like authors of catalog living and unhappyhipsters.com. Pinterest should be the great canvas where this mode of unadulterated snark might find it purest expression. I tried it. It’s hard. These two are … Read more
Mobile Health Cynic
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lily Tomlin said, “No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up.” The more I dig into this mobile wellness space, the more that comment resonates with me. I am pretty excited about mobile fitness trackers. I get excited about the challenges of acquiring users and monetizing them in this space. … Read more
Nike Fuel on Fire
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week, I wrote about Nike Fuel and the FuelBand that is being launched this month. I took a spin over to the Nike channel on youtube and can see how the marketing is shaping up. This is going to be a hit. Nike has managed to wrap up the idea of “Just Do it” … Read more