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I’ve been using Highlight for about a week or so now and I really enjoyed reading Eric Eldon’s article on his thoughts on how Highlight is creating serendipitous run-ins for him. I’d like to share some different observations on the product as well as a few things I’m struggling to figure out in terms of [...]

One of the more interesting things I’ve been able to observe this past year is how seed stage startups communicate with their investors. As a Venture Partner at SoftTech VC, we have a growing portfolio of early-stage companies who send reports to us and as the CEO of Bionic Panda Games I try to do [...]

Just wanted to share this with my blog readers who don’t follow me on Twitter. Enjoy! How Not to Let BD Tank Your Startup View more presentations from Charles Hudson.

I’m about a year into life as a first-time co-founder of a traditional product-oriented tech company. I’ve done two other services companies, but product companies are different. The one interesting thing about starting a product company is that you will get a wealth of advice from other people. Most of it centers around hiring the [...]

I have been doing a lot of travel lately, some for work and some for fun. The one thing that continues to stun me is the dominance of TripAdvisor as a source of reviews whenever I go to a new place and start looking for restaurant or hotel reviews. It reminds me a lot of [...]

I just wanted to do one more plug for the upcoming Social Gaming Summit in New York on December 1st. It should be an awesome show and we’ve got 18 talks in one jam-packed day where we’ll dive into a lot of the most interesting issues in the social gaming space today. Given that this [...]

I just wanted to do a quick blog post about an event I’m co-producing with the team at Mediabistro. Next Thursday and Friday, we’ll be presenting the first ever Social Gaming and Virtual Goods Summit in London. It’s a two day event with a really fantastic lineup of speakers from many of the top companies [...]

Lately, I’ve noticed more folks I know starting to use services such as Tungle and TimeBridge to set up meetings. For those of you who haven’t used the services, the value proposition is pretty simple. You can make a version of your calendar viewable to others in free / busy mode and allow them to [...]

Just wanted to do a quick post encouraging those of you who are interested in smartphone games to attend this year’s Smartphone Games Summit on September 24th in San Francisco. We’ve put together an all-star lineup of excellent speakers and panelists who will share their thoughts on what’s happening in the market today. This year’s [...]

I’ve been playing with Facebook Places for a few days. It’s a really simple to use application. I am not sure if it’s going to “kill” Foursquare, but I am pretty confident that it will succeed. Facebook was supposed to “kill” Twitter by focusing more attention on status updates and the like. It didn’t happen. [...]