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Ross Levinsohn, made a big splash a few months ago when he announced at an Under The Radar event that he had bought someone in the room. The news zipped across the Silicon Valley right on to my Power Book, just when the Business 2.0 Next Net panel got underway. In subsequent weeks everyone speculated, [...]

Chicago, Chicago that toddling town
Chicago, Chicago I’ll show you around - I love it
Bet your bottom dollar you’ll lose the blues in Chicago

Chicago White Sox are the world champions, the Cubbies are doing well, and guess what tech is blooming in the middle of the country. Chicago’s Crains chronicles good things happening to 37Signals, Feed [...]

No, I have not gone on vacation. Instead, I am busy writing the next cover story for the magazine, along with a couple of other short pieces, and am horribly late. So posting is going to be light for a couple of days. And if I haven’t answered your email, don’t take it personally - [...]

This week’s PodSession is about eBay shopping for partners. This is inspired by recent buzz about eBay looking to take on Google with new allies such as Microsoft and/or Yahoo.
EBay is voicing its concern with its checkbook and looking for new preferred advertising partners and cross-promotional opportunities. Should eBay be afraid of Google? How many [...]

A couple of days ago, I pointed out that it pays not to listen to McKinsey. Continuing in that theme, Paul Kedrosky, skins Gary Hamel’s blatent play to get some Google love in today’s Wall Street Journal. Super consultant Hamel has two of his former big clients - Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling - both [...]

Karl Jacob used to be a regular fixture at most Red Herring conferences and events. As a serial entrepreneur he started Dimension X and then later went on to found be the CEO of Keen.com, the company that became infamous for being the home of “psychics” and other 900-number crowd. (These days the company is [...]