Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Paul Mobley, MBA
From the category archives:
This week we’ve had three blackouts totaling more than 28 hours without power. Apparently we were not alone with more than 38,000 customers in Southern California experiencing outages. The extreme heat created excess demand and over burdened the system. Repair crews were working overtime to correct problems over more than a hundred mile radius. Not [...]
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As a native Californian I’m not really used to the traditional winter. Yet, earlier this month we took a trip up to Anchorage and survived the bitter cold. We were even “snowed in” and couldn’t leave the house one day. One activity that is much more common up there is having fun with a snow [...]
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Today Apple announced their new iPad (a third category of mobile device with the other two being phones and laptops). I my initial reaction was that this could be a really interesting advancement for sales people of all kinds but especially the Realtor. They have already created an updated version of Keynote for the iPad [...]
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Instead of making resolutions, make projections and create feedback mechanisms to monitor the progress. Keep on the watch for the unexpected success and unexpected failure. Those will be the best opportunities to tackle in this brand new decade. One thing that I need to remember is that the less we talk about our plans the [...]
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Warning: Facebook may have made your social graph available to “everyone” with a confusing “opt-in” last week. Personally I didn’t know until Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo.com, sent out an alert. Here are a few of the things that he mentioned: In case you missed it, when you logged into Facebook [last] week you [...]
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I have a lot of content to share with everyone…but instead of trying to write a bunch of articles to end 2009 I have decided to head in a different direction. I’m taking a digital holiday. I plan to blog less, tweet less, check e-mail less, and read less aggregated news. Even my new Google [...]
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Cherry Republic said that their favorite photographer is Paul Mobley. He will be back in the region for a book signing. The event is at 7 pm on Friday, November 20, 2009 at Brilliant Books in Suttons Bay. Cherry Republic will be there serving tasty little cherry tidbits during the signing. Paul spoke yesterday in [...]
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COSTA MESA – Rhonda Rohrabacher from Huntington Beach will be our guest speaker today, November 17 at MOTM in Orange County. Rhonda is the Director of Internet Strategy and Interaction Design for Congressman Rohrabacher (CA-46) and uses technology to shake things up in the political world and beyond. The topic for conversation will be how [...]
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Business Week has selected CitySourced as on of the 25 most interesting companies. The article was just published online and will be included in the Nov 16 issue. This is a really nice validation of their innovative business model that was introduced to the world at TechCrunch50 in September. Regular readers already know about Kurt [...]
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After a three year battle, the FTC has ruled that a Michigan MLS (multiple-listing service for real estate) had unfair policies that restricted trade. They have been ordered to change their policies and provide a level playing field for all participants. The Federal Trade Commission issued an Opinion finding that Realcomp II – a Michigan-based [...]
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The National Association of Realtors has taken a major step towards a property centric MLS. The Realtor Property Resource (RPR) is not intended to become a national MLS system but it has the potential to provide vast amounts of property centric data. This is big news that has not yet been covered by the major [...]
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Twitter recently deployed a killer new feature called “lists”. Basically, it’s their version of groups that can either be public or private (and you don’t need to be currently following someone to add them to a list). For example, Robert Scoble created a list of Tech News Brands that I really enjoy. It’s features like [...]
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SAN JOSE – Every October the California Association of Realtors holds their annual expo. I attended, along with our intern Kyle, on Wednesday and Thursday (Oct 7-8). I enjoy this convention because it’s attended by the leaders in the CA real estate and innovative service providers. The fact that this year the event was in [...]
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LOS ANGELES – Today, in Griffith Park, we participated in the Epilepsy Freedom Walk. The annual event is a fun family stroll in the park, complete with food, games and prizes. While the event is fun, the purpose is serious – to increase awareness about epilepsy and to raise money to continue the fight for [...]
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COSTA MESA – For several years now, the place to be once a month on Tuesday nights was at Meeting of the Minds (MOTM) in Westlake Village. Kurt Daradics and Baron Miller created something special that, at it’s core, could be summarized as starting a conversation. In this context many collaborations, innovations, and relationships have [...]
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Today, October 6th, the California Association of Realtors start their annual Expo in San Jose. I’ll be attending on Wednesday and Thursday and I will share my impressions with you. Last year the Expo was in Long Beach. These are some of my observations from last year. The primary focus in 2008 was on the [...]
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CitySourced was selected as one of the top three concepts at TechCrunch50 2009. While they didn’t receive the top prize (a check for $50,000) they did make a big splash at an event with lots of noteworthy tech innovators. Both the judges and the press loved the concept (including CNET). Keep your eye out for [...]
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CitySourced was introduced today as one of the finalists at TechCrunch50. CitySourced is a realtime mobile civic engagement tool. CitySourced provides: a free, simple, and intuitive tool empowering citizens to identify civil issues (potholes, graffiti, trash, snow removal, etc) and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology [...]
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Publishers Weekly, the leading magazine on the American book business, predicted another big hit this fall from the makers of American Farmer. The new offering by Welcome Books is Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town. This oversized hardcover by photographer Douglas Gayeton is a tribute to rural Italian life and charming local characters whose livelihoods [...]
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Legendary country singer Michael Martin Murphey presented photographer Paul Mobley with the 2009 Wrangler Award for his book American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country. Video on YouTube
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Tomorrow, August 25, 2009, Matt Brouwers’ new record Where’s Our Revolution will be released by Universal / Indie Extreme. Since I’ve been friends with Matt for over a decade I’ll acknowledge my bias and leave the review to some else. When I first listened to the record about nine months ago I was really impressed. [...]
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