Two days ago our beta request site went live Late Friday afternoon we soft-launched our teaser website and have been blown away by the interest we’ve seen so far. The teaser site was put togeth...
Today we peeked from stealth After a long stretch of personal radio silence, I’m proud to share a little bit about Crushpath and open our private beta registration. Since we’re still in stealth, we w...
Technology is about expansion. And when new technology is introduced, it doesn’t go away. It stays. Some tech is meaningful for huge amounts of people. Some for just a few. All new technology f...
Founder’s Perception Imagine yourself looking through an electron microscope. See all the enormous and breathtaking micro-landscapes? Now imagine that you believe these landscapes are planets a...
Goodbye Blackbox. Exactly as has been reported, I’ve left Blackbox Republic as of February this year. It was a fantastic, bumpy ride and my first time building a company from absolute zero. Ult...
State Farm doesn’t want to connect people. We got this letter from State Farm today. They proactively canceled our policy out of nowhere with the explanation that: State Farm does not write bus...
The antiquated, “eyeball” media model is screwing with our online behavior. I had a fun brainstorming session recently with Pierre Omidyar (@pierre). One of the things we talked about was...
1. Labels One of our Founding members told me that “labels create drama,” and we agree. If there’s one thing we’ve overwhelmingly and consistently heard is that sexpositive pe...
At one point I blogged about “What it takes to Go Big.” I’ve learned a lot since that post. Especially about bravery. By bravery, I mean, pulling away from the crowd to face seriou...
Social Nicheworking is the next big thing. What’s a social nichework? It’s (a) choosing a target market and (b) building social software that’s tailored for them. “Social netw...
Wondering? If so, drop me a line and say hi (sam@gobigalways.com). Then we can electronically send letters to each other and sign those letters like they were real letters. Something like, “Snu...
I’m leaving Jive. I love Jive. I’ve never had the experience of walking into a company and being inspired, then leaving a company four years later and being just as inspired, if not more....
The Old Brain 20 years ago, the brain of an organization was at the process level. But now business process is a commodity. Core processes are like the lights on your car. You used to touch them but ...
When was the last time enterprise software was interesting? For half of you, the answer is “never.” For some it might have been when CRM finally grew up in the late 90s. Others, maybe whe...
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