Category: Tech Company

Fast Fig: Startup of the Month

This month’s featured startup has an idea that I’m surprised we haven’t seen executed until now. The company is fast fig, and the product is a cloud-based math word processor. They’ve basically applied the Google docs model to math, making typing equations as simple as writing a sentence, and making math available anywhere. Problems and equations automatically format, and literally solve themselves as you type,...

What is a Pivot? Startup 101 (Video)

If you’re here, you’re probably wondering what a Pivot is in the startup sense. I’m going to answer that in two ways. First, I’ll give you my simplified answer, and then, I’m embedding a video below my answer of the term’s creator, author Eric Ries, where he gives the only definition you’ll ever need to master the term. Pivot: Changing strategy, without changing vision,...

Our Interview With Boinx CEO Oliver Breidenbach

I love animation. It’s something I’ve been doing since I was little, and when I had the opportunity to interview the CEO of the company that makes my absolute favorite animation software (review here), I couldn’t say yes fast enough. Today we have an interview with Oliver Breidenbach, the cofounder and CEO of Boinx Software which has created some of the best creative software out there,...

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Interview with Kathy Wright, Manager of HP Global Digital Support [Full Transcript]

We recently “sat down” for an interview with Kathy Wright, the woman in charge of HP’s entire Global Digital Support Effort. To give some perspective on how big that is, according to Ms. Wright, 40 Million Customers come to HP looking for support each month. This article has the full edited transcript of our conversation where we discussed HP’s Customer Support strengths, weaknesses, and...

Unexpected By Design Part 2: Steve Jobs and the iPod

Yesterday we showed you how differently the founders of Snapchat, Facebook, Youtube, and others envisioned their websites being used. Well here’s another example of what I’m beginning to call “the founder’s phenomina”. When Steve Jobs first got onto the stage of Walt Mossberg’s first annual D Tech conference in 2003, he was fresh off of the success of the iPod and the redesigned iMac....