With a world seemingly upside-down and changing overnight, this week in the Startup Studio felt like a week worth exploring how to avoid some too common mistakes. Discounting experience. With Facebook and Google suggesting most success stories are born out of college, it’s easy to overlook that the average age…

Nearing the end of the school year, I get asked a lot, by parents and teachers, how to help students get into internships and even first jobs. This is my lecture in high school and college classes where I guest. Heavily use LinkedIn and learn to Search and Connect. Now, when I say LinkedIn, I do see most young…

Startups really do require a personality with a different way of looking at life. Most people, in life, are seeking these kinds of things from work: Stability Career Paycheck Benefits Saving And it’s very important to keep in mind that if you want to (or are) doing a startup, those…

I left a swanky bar in downtown Austin, with some guests on our way to an event, and a guy living in the street asked if we had a pen. Now, life can be impossibly difficult for some. And while that’s the worst the world has to throw at us…

Days away, the conference that connects the worldwide community of digital creatives with cutting-edge ideas, emerging interests, and opportunities to network with others who have a similar desire for forward-thinking experiences. Before we share where and when, let’s orient ourselves as great founders do, and start with why… Themes to Explore at SXSW Discovering the Undiscovered Vaccines are…

Talk radio this morning shared a Fast Company headline that Public schools are facing an existential Great Resignation of teachers. The National Education Association (NEA), released a new poll conducted to gauge the amount of stress on members today and it showed that 55% of teachers now say they’re going…

Had Connor MacLeod been tied to a Non-Disclosure Agreement, rumors of immortals would have never spread, the feeling they each get that draws them to one another would have been squelched, and the Highlander and others would have never found one another, to work together, to kill… one or the…

Our year in MediaTech Ventures has started with a flood of curiosity about Venture Capital not just in how to raise funding but in consideration of how funds work, what it takes to get a job at a venture capital firm, and whether or not VC is broken or needs…

Over the years, I’ve been frequently asked what books I’d recommend about startups, and despite both MediaTech’s close association with authors and written media, and the fact that I’ve offered a perspective or two about books, I realized I’d never written out my recommendations. I decided to finally offer a…