I recently wrote a post about how the US really needs college students to be entrepreneurial [http://www.danielodio.com/2012/03/09/student-entrepreneur/]. I should've addressed it to high school students instead. I've challenged Georgetown MBAs [http://www.danielodio.com/2010/01/22/my-lecture-to-mbas-who-dont-get-it-but-want-to-at-georgetown-university/] and

Philipp Stauffer of the Wharton Club of Northern California [http://www.whartonclub.com/] hosted an incredibly intimate evening with Jacob Jaber [http://www.whartonclub.com/article.html?aid=1511], the CEO of Philz Coffee [http://www.philzcoffee.com/], at the new Philz Palo Alto location (picture above is of Jacob

Stats from Facebook's S1 Registration We've all grown up with computers.  Well, if you're my generation -- X -- your  first experience with them was probably as a kid under 10 years old, which isn't quite the same as thinking a magazine

A group of 16 U.Va. McIntire School of Commerce [http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/] students (my alma mater) came to San Francisco for a week during their spring break to learn about life as an entrepreneur in the mecca of geekdom.  I had to be in Cincinnati giving a

The problem with humans is that we make lots of decisions without having data to back us up. And to compound the problem, unlike the movie Sliding Doors [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/], where the main character gets to see how a different decision plays out in her life,

I was recently at the MobileX conference [http://go.danielodio.com/mobileX] in Cincinnati and in preparation for the conference I told the organizers to check out Twitterfall [http://www.twitterfall.com/], which they did in a big way, putting it up on a side screen in the auditorium.  It

Today I gave a keynote at the sold-out MobileX conference [http://danielodio.com/mobilexconference.com/cincinnati2012/] in Cincinnati.  I can't tell you how impressed I am by this group.   Brian, Therese, Evan and the entire crew did an amazing job scheduling and executing on this event, and it&

We've been using scrum [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cts=1330905542609&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FScrum_(development)&ei=vwFUT_-nB9DyggesmfDiDQ&usg=

CloudApp [http://go.danielodio.com/cloudapp] is the single most important productivity and efficiency tool I use each day.  And if you've read my blogs, you know I use a lot of tools [http://go.danielodio.com/instrument] to make my time act as a force multiplier.  But

Ira Glass, the creator of This American Life [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/] and one of our generation's most prolific storytellers, has some great advice for artists that applies equally well to entrepreneurs:  There's a time in your life when you are making stuff that you know

View of the Ferry Building from OneMarket space I've written about other cool SF-based startup spaces before, including SOMAcentral [http://go.danielodio.com/somacentral] and StartupHouse [http://go.danielodio.com/startuphouse]. OneMarket Atrium There's another cool new space in downtown SF called OneMarket.  It's

Packed House at our What's App Session Sue Ko, AppMakr's product manager and I did a panel in front of a 500 person audience over two days at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's annual conference in San Diego, CA. The panel was titled "

Socialize [http://www.socialize.com/] is well known for the robust infrastructure of its drop-in social platform [http://go.getsocialize.com/key-benefits], which handles over 20 requests per second -- over 1.5 million requests in the past 24 hours across thousands of mobile apps and millions of end users.

Those of you who know me well know I call myself a "lifehacker" which basically means I hack & use technology to be as efficient as possible.  For example, I strongly recommend that those who are in front of computers all day learn to play them like instruments

I'm a big fan of my iPad, and I've found that I can take it to meetings instead of a laptop.  But typing is still a pain and really slows me down.  Even though I'm pretty good at touch typing on the iPad, it&

Thanks to the folks at CES and the Department of Homeland Security for inviting me to participate on a panel focused on mobile security titled Tale of the Tablet. The panel focused on hardware, software and social security on mobile devices.   If you're curious about the challenges the

To me, this is part of what being an entrepreneur is all about. Turning around in the taxi line, embarrassing yourself in front of hundreds of people, and seeing what happens. Often times, it's something good, because nobody else is willing to try it. Here is a trasnscript

It's no secret [http://drod.io/0A073A0G062B011E450J] that Google calendars and iCal don't play super nicely together.   And it's even worse on the iPhone.  It got so bad that I was using the Google calendar web app instead of the native calendar app because

I recently wrote about how I've swapped PowerPoint out for something I call PowerPinch [http://go.danielodio.com/powerpinch] (a term I made up). When it came time to make a demo video for Socialize [http://www.getsocialize.com/], I wondered if I could use PowerPinch to make

Sick of endless PowerPoint slides?  If you want to take your presentation to the next level, and you know basic HTML, you can hack together a presentation on an iPad that lets you interact with your content like never before.   I call it "PowerPinch" because you can pinch,

Mark Jacobstein, CEO of iSkoot, sat down with me to talk about Qualcomm and its upcoming initiatives. iSkoot was acquired by Qualcomm last year [http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/13/qualcomm-iskoot-acquisition/], and now Mark is VP of Product Management for Qualcomm. The reason I'm so fascinated by Qualcomm

I was one of the mobile and social engagement experts [http://lavacon.org/tag/mobile-and-social-engagement] at the 2011 LavaCon conference in Austin, TX this week.  LavaCon is a very well attended niche conference for digital media and content strategists -- not the "social media gurus" you so often

In my series about using agile processes not just for software development but in everyday life,Socialize [http://www.getsocialize.com/] VP of Engineering Jason Polites has offered up a guest post about what often gets overlooked in software development: Nice post [http://www.danielodio.com/2011/10/18/leading-a-scrummy-lifestyle-part-one/

Google engineer Steve Yegge let an internal Google memo slip publicly [https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX] (he later called it "the great-granddaddy of all Reply-All screwups in tech history") where he argued that Google was royally screwing up by not building its social technology and other