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Go Live With The Whales

YoungUpstarts

While in Puentas Arenas I traveled with a group mostly composed of people from the American west coast, predominantly Seattle and Alaska. There were a bunch of burly men from Alaska who had all been friends for more than 20 years. One worked the North Slope of Alaska. I am a consultant, after all, and I am seen as an expert.

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Avoid startup failure – Don’t make these 7 mistakes

The Next Web

You wouldn’t want to market this item to people in Alaska, would you? You can still think big and go niche. Finding your niche will make marketing cheaper, more effective, and easier. Say you create a golfing product. Instead, you should focus on one area and potentially a common theme within your chosen target audience.

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Twitter Link Roundup #69 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Snowboarding Alaska’s backcountry from 7.7 Extraordinary story of undiscovered, self-taught 20th century photography master Vivian Maier – [link]. Incredible Video of Flash Flood Washing Away Cars In Queensland – [link]. 24: The Unaired 1994 – [link]. Phenomenal. thousand feet – [link].

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An Aurora Over Alaska

Feld Thoughts

When I opened my daily folder, a beautiful picture of an Aurora Over Alaska graced the front page of APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). Just another reason to love Alaska. Tags: Alaska alaska apod.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. How do you account for the charge backs to the business units or functional areas? This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

I took my Macbook Pro (an older model from about 18 months ago) up to Alaska, left my Lenovo x300 in Boulder, and went native Mac. That’s not surprising because the vast majority of the book focuses on innovations The Mac Won Me Over - Feld Thoughts , August 3, 2010 On June 20th, I declared that I was going to try A Month of Mac.

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Moving To Homer, Alaska

Feld Thoughts

During one of the long conversations we had at the time about our future, we started talking about calling it quits and moving to Homer, Alaska. We didn’t know anyone there and I didn’t have any business there, but it was a lot more centrally located in the US than Homer, Alaska. Life alaska anchorage homer'

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