I am a writer, analyst, commentator, strategist and now software entrepreneuer. Some say I have keen instincts and razor-sharp insights about technology, business, people, and the mixture of all three.
I have covered personal technology since 1984 and have garnered the reputation as an industry pundit. I look at technology not with an engineer's zeal for elegant code, but with a human eye for usefulness, practical advancement, and social change. As a product analyst, I met each year with about 1000 companies as they were developing and bringing new products to market. To this day, I enjoy helping startups position themselves and their technology in the global marketplace. When I write about technology and the startup ecosystem, I talk about technology and business at the point where it meets and impacts people.
I am perhaps best known as the Executive Producer of the DEMO Conferences, the technology industry's premier place to launch new information technology, product, or service. During my tenue as executive producer (1996 - 2009), I used DEMO to introduce ideas such as Web-based software (ASP Services), application servers, device computing, social agents and user interfaces, and much more. TiVo, Salesforce.com, VMWare, WebEx, among many other companies introduced their first products at DEMO.
In the Spring of 2004, I co-founded Guidewire Group and have build the company from an analyst firm focused on emerging companies and markets to a software and services company providing the tools that make startups more competitive in their markets.
