Unsolicited Advice

The Future of Cloud as a Service (to my blog readers)

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 21, 2011 / Leave a comment

Microsoft announced a new version of their cloud, called Project Daytona. I read this Information Week article on it. Project Daytona will allow users to deploy Google’s MapReduce software within the cloud to run some serious, statistics-based algorithms on serious amounts of capacity. I love the idea and I think...
Making Time for Getting Better

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 14, 2011 / Leave a comment

Do you know the guy who has spent 30 years in his current job, working long hours and rarely taking vacation, but still isn’t very good at it? Maybe his industry is changing and he’s actually looking at being stuck out of a job and unqualified to get a new...
On the Google+: It’s New, Twittery, Not-to-Twittery, Maybe a Bit Too Much

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 12, 2011 / Leave a comment

So I’ve moved myself on to the Google+ and I have a thought or two or four: I think there is something interesting to be said about it being NEW and opening nationwide. Facebook is great, but it’s gotten stale for many people. I have friends on there that I...
Reminder: The Concept of Apps Has an Expiration Date

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 8, 2011 / Leave a comment

Yesterday Apple announced that they have had 15 Billion Downloads from their App Store. My question is, how high do you think that number will ever get? 30 Billion? 40 Billion? 100 Billion? I would bet $100 that it will never cross 100 Billion, might not even be 30 Billion. ...
Innovation in Incubation

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 2, 2011 / Leave a comment

I saw an article on Fred Wilson’s blog about Founder Labs. Founder Labs is, more or less, a traveling incubator program where people sign up as individuals, are paired together and then helped to build the start of a company in 5 weeks. It seems like a good idea, an...
The 2 Types of Innovation and 5 Types of Companies

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 27, 2011 / Leave a comment

There are essentially two different levels of innovation: Addressing Latent Demand – Most companies are founded on an innovation. This could be as simple as, “there aught to be a Chinese Food Restaurant on Carson Street” or as complex as, “The internet and mobile device users will latch on to...
LulzSec, Annonymous, Colbert Nation, Green Peace and Al Queda

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 24, 2011 / Leave a comment

For those of you who don’t spend a lot of time reading Tech News… there has been a lot lately on the darker side of brilliant technologists, hackers. The two largest groups of hackers are LulzSec and Annonymous. These two groups have been responsible for everything from retaliating against Sony...
Good People, Great People and Startups

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 23, 2011 / 2 Comments

Recently Bill Taylor at the Harvard Business Review wrote an Article entitled, “Great People are Over Rated“. He jumped on the bit of controversy around the salary of tech engineers these days. Facebook has been stealing Google employees (at least 89 at the moment), Google has offered hundreds of thousands...
Yes Until Proven Otherwise

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 22, 2011 / Leave a comment

What happens when someone pitches you an idea and asks for some of your time. I don’t care whether it’s “Hey, want to grab a beer?” or “Hey, what if we made a new website that will change the world?”. If you’re the kind of person that reads this blog...
When Things Are Good And You’re On Top of the World…

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 18, 2011 / 5 Comments

…don’t forget to act desperate. Chances are its the way you got where you are. Just thought I’d share that bit of poignant advice I received recently. I’ve had a lot of good fortune in my life the last couple months and I am feeling pretty good about just about...