Mar 18, 2020Zoom Please Board the Cluetrain!After high school a couple of friends and I visited Paris. La Grande Arche de la Défense had just been finished, which we of course went to check out. I remember coming up from the Metro station and the building is breathtakingly beautiful: big, massive glass, granite and steel. It…Webinar Tips5 min readWebinar Tips5 min read
Jun 13, 2018GitHub + LinkedIn + Microsoft = #FutureOfWork Grand Central StationA lot has been written about Microsoft buying GitHub. I like Redmonk’s Stephen O’Grady’s So Pigs Do Fly: Microsoft Acquires GitHub post. He shares some interesting insights, like Microsoft competitors may likely switch to a different platform, or host their own. What would be the most powerful AI? One that…Microsoft2 min readMicrosoft2 min read
Apr 5, 2018SAP Inside Tracks stretch SAP’s Marketing Event Budget by $1.9 MillionWhat would it cost if SAP would organize SAP Inside Tracks themselves? It usually is really tough to quantify in actual dollar amounts the impact of a thriving community on a company. Regarding events, you can calculate how much they would cost if not organized by the community. In this…Events5 min readEvents5 min read
Mar 15, 2018Don’t Go Back To School & Learn 2x Until Real Gun Control Has Been Enacted!I was on the fence whether I should even post these suggestions, but it turns out kids got detention for walking out :-( I admire the Stoneman Douglas High School students and how they are organizing their protests. …Guns3 min readGuns3 min read
Jan 29, 2018Create a Thrivable Future with Holochain!From the beginning of the Thrivable Future Salon one of our goals was to look at larger trends and do what we can to nudge these trends towards a positive future that works for all. If you are in the Bay Area this week, join me for the Dive Into…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Dec 20, 2017Dive Into Holochain Meetup Tomorrow 12/21 6pm Impact Hub OaklandRemember the Ceptr Thrivable Future Salon we held some time ago? Ceptr evolved into Holochain, an alternative to Blockchain. On top of Holochain, they have created an incentivized hosting community Holo that uses an alternative crypto-accounting design. Jean Russell has joined that team and is responsible for the Holo ICO…Oakland1 min readOakland1 min read
Nov 16, 20171st Public CrowdSmart Webinar This Tuesday 11/21 11am PSTPlease join us for the first public CrowdSmart webinar next Tuesday, November 21st 11amPacific Time 2pm Eastern. [Link to Google Calendar Zoom link:https://zoom.us/j/370591745 more dial-in info below.] Webinar Agenda Share and discuss CrowdSmart survey results. Raffle off the $500 co-investment among the survey participants. DirecTech Labs a brief introduction to…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Nov 2, 2017Investment Opportunity: Knox — Help Kids with Asthma!Join CrowdSmart to participate in the KNOX startup evaluation. As a member of the evaluation team, you get to participate in the whole due diligence process. If the evaluation team together with our AI comes to the conclusion that we invest in KNOX, all members of the evaluation team can…Startup1 min readStartup1 min read
Oct 5, 2017Join the CrowdSmart Influencers via our SurveyThank you, CrowdSmart members who filled out our Feedback Questionnaire already. If you didn’t get around to it yet, do it now. It is about getting a pulse check of where we are and what we should work on next. …Crowdinvesting3 min readCrowdinvesting3 min read
Published in Smarter Investing with CrowdSmart·Oct 4, 2017CSW Summit: Data Science and Developments in Crowdbased InvestingJoin CrowdSmart.io’s scientific advisor Richard Swart this Thursday the 5th of October at the Crowd Sourcing Week Summit in Seattle, where he is presenting the underlying science and AI technology that is the base to our CrowdSmart system and its success. Title of his talk: Data Science and Developments in…Machine Learning2 min readMachine Learning2 min read
