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There were lots of remarkable moments at the eighth Launch Festival, which ended a three-day run Wednesday at Fort Mason in San Francisco: Investor legend Peter Thiel exhorting entrepreneurs to find a space and “create a monopoly.” Pundit Glenn Beck declaring, “We don’t need the media. I trust my neighbors.” Forty or so founders taking to the stage to launch interesting new startups.
I wrote about it over at Socialmedia.biz. And above is a gallery of some of my favorite shots.
I’m in the middle of launching my own startup — Cruiseable — so when I’m not heads down working 80-100 hours a week on that I’m rubbing shoulders with other startup founders and tech luminaries. Above is a sampling of photos from the just-ended Startup Grind 2015, and here’s my writeup:
• Startup Grind: ‘Find your golden purpose’ (Socialmedia.biz)
Here are some of my favorite Photos from my October 2014 trip to Machu Picchu and Cusco, Peru, in November 2014. I was flown in to speak to a conference of Latin American journalists and decided to spend two days at the end of the trip to Cusco — only a 70-minute flight from Lima. [Read more…] about Photos of Machu Picchu & Cusco
I‘m just back from Poland, where I gave a talk on The Social Startup to the Bitspiration startup conference in Krakow.
This was my first trip to Poland, so naturally I did some sightseeing in Krakow. And I spent a day traveling in the Polish countryside to Spie, where my grandfather came from. [Read more…] about Photos of Krakow & a startup conference
Here’s my Flickr set of 35 photos of the just-ended Macworld Expo, including actor-comedian Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night Live” and “Portlandia.”
Here are 90-plus photos from my trip to Yosemite this past week. The valley is even more stunning than I remember from 15 years ago. Check out the closeup of a gorgeous bluejay and a long-range shot of a bear.
