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I spent the last three days in New York City at TechCrunch Disrupt with two KBJ Capital portfolio companies: Yumm.com and APPEK Mobile Apps. Both Yumm and APPEK absolutely crushed TechCrunch Disrupt! APPEK Mobile Apps From the time Adam Ceresko and Andrew Herman (Cofounders of APPEK) hit the Start-up Alley floor on Monday until the place closed down around 6pm the booth was packed - even Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch) stopped by with questions for the guys, as did representatives from Sequoia Capital, Google, and Bing. Appek Mobile ...

The picture above is of Obinna Ekezie, Former NBA Player and current CEO of Nigerian Travel Company Wakanow.com Last year I spoke at an investor conference in New York City which included 400 of the world's most successful internet entrepreneurs - while I had the opportunity to meet some incredibly smart and talented people one guy stood out in the crowd more than anyone else....Obinna Ekezie, and it wasn't only because he is nearly 7 ft tall. :) Not surprisingly, Obinna Ekezie is a former college and professional basketball player...first at the University of Maryland ...

Yesterday was one of the highlights of my professional career as eBay announced the acquisition of GSI Commerce, the parent company of Pepperjam, which I founded in 1999 (and sold to GSI in 2009). Pepperjam was an offshoot of a gourmet food company my brother Rick and I founded in 1999 called Grandma Jones' Originals, Inc. I founded Pepperjam as an internet marketing and consulting company while I was a graduate student studying psychology at Villanova University. After graduating from Villanova in 2000 I went on to study government law at Albany Law School where ...

I'm happy to announce that I've invested $50,000 (through my investment fund KBJ Capital) in B2B mobile app developer APPEK Mobile Apps! As a condition of the investment I will join APPEK as a strategic advisor and member of the APPEK board of advisors. After meeting with dozens of mobile app start-up technology companies from across the country I quickly discovered that APPEK Mobile Apps (located in my home town of Northeastern, Pennsylvania) is particularly well positioned to immediately take advantage of the massive supply demand discrepancy that exists between the tens of thousands ...

I'm beyond excited to share that my book "Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint to Effective Internet Marketing" is now available digitally on the Amazon Kindle! Click here to download through Amazon. Until now the book has only been available in major bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders across North America and Europe....so I assume this is welcome news for folks that prefer to read on digital devices....as well as interested readers from different parts of the world. Enjoy!

My good friend Chris Hedgecock approached me about a year ago with an idea to build a recipe site called Yumm.com that would rival leaders AllRecipes.com and the Food Network. Unlike those other recipe sites that exist within a closed ecosystem.....Yumm.com aggregates the recipe Web by being a bookmarking repository of all of your favorite recipes. If you are familiar with the popular social bookmarking service Delicious (acquired by Yahoo in 2005) that is a repository os some 200 million bookmarks of the Web's most popular Web sites you'll get Yumm.

I've included a video below on some considerations as you build your business, including who you should consider selling to (or not), whether (or not) to raise venture capital money, and how I believe you can get your company off the ground for $10 bucks and a decent amount of sweat equity.... Since the video is only 6 minutes long and I can talk about this issue for hours feel free to post any question you have HERE. Special thanks to Chris Winfield, Dave Snyder, Loren Baker, Brent Csutoras, and my other friends at BlueGlass for the invitation to ...

I think about what's possible both personally and professionally all the time and for what's it's worth I sincerely believe there are few limits to experiencing and accomplishing just about anything you want. For "most people" there are perceived limitations in what is and isn't possible. However, deep down in your belly I know you don't want to lead a life like "most people." Right? As I say in the title of this post I believe that the mother of all personal and professional success are expectations, including the expectations you have for yourself, AS WELL AS the expectations ...

After receiving multiple different requests I've decided to share the presentation I delivered last week at PubCon Las Vegas 2010 using slideshare. Keep in mind that reading this PowerPoint doesn't provide you with the true scope of my presentation, but it does provide some high level conclusions I draw about the impact of Google Instant on SEO. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have. This presentation is eighteen (18) slides in length and starts with a broad summary of the benefits of Google Instant. Here is a TOC of each slide: (1) Title / Author (2) What is Google ...

It is a fact, most people don't take action because of fear. Fear of failure. Fear of hard work. Fear of discouragement. Fear of commitment. Fear of ability. Fear, fear, fear. The problem with allowing fear to rule your decision making is that you won't take chances and without taking chances you'll likely live a mediocre life....and who wants that!? I will be the first to tell you...and agree with you....that fighting your inner demons - that voice in your head that tells you that you aren't worthy...or that you can't do something (i.e. lose weight, ask a girl / guy out, address conflict, ...