Back in September, my cofounder Brian James Kirk and I moved our Philadelphia operations from Temple University Center City at 1515 Market Street to the new University City headquarters of First Round Capital. This month, Geekadelphia visited the 10,000 square foot renovated space, in which we are now based. Number of Views:653

Relationships are a currency. They’re worth something — friendships, acquaintances, colleagues, sources. They enrich our lives and, yes, they are integral to any success. Things get done by people who have relationships, to help guide, support, advise and strengthen goals. This goes for everyone, but there are surely some industries that need them more than [...]

College newspapers are facing the same challenges of their commercial counterparts have had for decades but, despite their advantages, are struggling to fundamentally innovate. Nearly 40 professional journalists, students and college administrators attended representing a half dozen universities and student newspapers attended Thursday the Future of College Media event I helped organize with Temple University [...]

A dense, 30-minute look at the past, present and future of education reform in the United States was the focus of a presentation by the celebrated University of Pennsylvania professor Ted Hershberg last week. Though his lecture was part of a class I’m taking that is officially off-the-record, because I know Hershberg’s work through a [...]

First shared in April and then announced more fully last month, earlier this summer, I helped soft-launch Technically Baltimore, another local technology news site committed to covering and growing the conversation around technology bettering the region there. What’s even better is that, with the help of more than a dozen partners, we’re also organizing the [...]

There is no shortage of jokes and jabs at corporate jargon. But here’s another. Though the Internet has its fair share of lists and collections and compilations and generators, I felt too few of them actually helped remind us what they really meant and why they’re so hated — a PC obfuscation of business politics. [...]

This year, I have hired three reporters and worked with a handful of freelancers. Here are some things I’ve learned about the process: Number of Views:1099

If we are to build cities based in the so-called knowledge economy, one of the primary methods for judging its success should be very familiar: net exports. In culture, ideas, concepts, general intellectual capital and, yes, even businesses and organizations, it may be worth questioning whether your city is mostly taking from others or mostly [...]

The internet doesn’t forget. So I often stockpile perspective (links) for the future. In 2009, we at Technically Philly were digging our heels into looking at how diversify revenue for a local community news site. In the end, the largest driver turned out to be events, specifically the annual Philly Tech Week we organize. Before [...]

Two themes run across the dense and well-timed Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson that came out last fall. The unfaltering focus and dependable insensitivity of Jobs, so, having just finished it myself, I’ve been left trying to find causality: did those two qualities make him a better CEO and Apple a better company? For [...]