How to win your March Madness office pool: a data-driven approach

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One glorious year, back in 2001, my office bracket was a pristine sheet of victory. Leading up to the National Championship game, one side of my bracket was perfect. Yep, perfect. Not one single wrong choice. The other side had a few blemishes, but not many. Unfortunately, the person chasing me in the standings did [...]

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Why your cloud startup didn’t make the cut

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I’ve spent the majority of today answering emails and fending off scores of phone calls about my Cloud Startups Final 25, which I posted on Startup50. These are the finalists for my upcoming CIO story, “10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch.” So I don’t have to keep repeating myself, I’ve created this FAQ. Hope it [...]

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Network World SMB story and guest post from Livio

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I’m working on a story for Network World about “Must-have technologies for SMBs.” Here’s the sort of stuff that’s on my radar right now, although that’s no guarantee any of these will make it into the story. It just gives you a sense of what I’m after: Neat scanners for accounting and overall organization, Square [...]

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Cloud Startup Update and Datamation Cloud Backup Story

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I’ve just started narrowing down the 150+ submissions for Startup50 and my “10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch” story for CIO. If you’re one of those people who sent me “did you get this” emails, chances are I won’t answer. The submission emails (and the follow-ups) get routed automatically into a specific story folder. I [...]

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CIO cloud startup story and Startup50

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I’ve been writing a lot about startups lately. Earlier this month, two of my stories posted in CIO and Network World. “10 Mobile Startups to Watch” and “7 Hot Startups to Watch in 2013” did really, really well. All in all, 16 startups (there was one that  made both lists) got a ton of publicity, [...]

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CES 2013 – What I like so far

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My first day at CES was a long, busy one. I spent a lot of time in Eureka Park in the Venetian checking out new startups. Plenty were interested, but a bit too much like science projects for my tastes, but there were plenty of simple, practical things like allocacoc’s power cubes and fusechicken’s sturdy, [...]

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5 Things to Do after Getting Press Coverage . . .

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. . . and 3 Things not to So your company has finally been covered in the trade or business press, huh? Maybe your CEO was used as a source in the story, or perhaps a top-flight publication reviewed your new product. Congratulations. There’s a scene in the movie Bull Durham where Nuke returns to [...]

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CES 2013 and Startup50

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CES 2013 is just around the corner, so my inbox is as jammed as the Santa Monica Freeway during rush hour. Frankly, most of the pitches I’m getting are terrible. I don’t know who thinks it’s a good idea to send out pitches that aren’t targeted, lack any story angle, and look like direct-mail brochures. [...]

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Why M-Commerce is not yet ready for primetime — story for CIO

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I’m working on story for CIO titled “Why M-Commerce is not yet ready for primetime.” The story will investigate both the promises and pitfalls of m-commerce. I know a lot of your clients will want you to send me pitches promising the moon and stars. M-commerce is the next big thing, or so I’ve been [...]

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Disaster Recovery Lessons from Hurricane Sandy

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I’m working on two stories for Datamation this month (as well as a couple for CIO, but I’ll save those details for later in order to spare my inbox). The first story up is about Disaster Recovery in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. I’m looking for actual experiences, not vendor input. I’m trying to collect [...]

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