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My name is John Furrier and I founded this blog siliconANGLE to provide an open blog for entrepreneurs, business executives, scientists, innovators, students, business leaders, and inventors. It's a community blog where anyone can gain membership and post. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the modern web world.
This is a place to blog without all the hassles of being a full time blogger except here you are talking with peers and colleagues.
About siliconANGLE:
siliconANGLE, Inc., was established during the 2009 Great Depression to form a site offering a fresh optimistic and sometimes critical perspective that can drive innovation and invention.
The mandate of Silicon Angle is to promote entrepreneurship, discovery, and invention to create sparks of innovation that spawns new venture creation. The siliconANGLE group is dedicated to recognizing those ‘rock stars’ that have something interesting to say or contribute. We place the highest value on people that promote and create innovation, jobs, wealth, peace, and better global citizenship as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.
Contributors to siliconANGLE own the copyright to their original writing posted on this site and their posting is in effect a license permitting siliconANGLE, Inc. the electronic use of this work. In the event siliconANGLE, Inc. wishes to use the work in a print medium it will not do so before asking and securing the written permission of the author. siliconANGLE, Inc. owns the cumulative copyright to the site.
Background - Why I'm Doing This Now
My personal blog Furrier.org has been gaining traffic over the past year where I have been posting only my opinion. I've been approached by many of my friends who want to post on my blog and have quality conversations with me, but they don't want to start a blog and deal with the hassles of blogging (believe me there are tons of hassles in blogging). Fact is, most quality people think blogging is boring - unless it's part of a group of peers. I'm now going to take the approach of peer blogging and make that the core mission of the siliconANGLE project (this blog). It will start with my friends and colleagues then include their friends and colleauges and so on. It is for people who have something interesting and deep to say - content that complements the current blogosphere and twittersphere. The purpose is to develop The Angle with interesting and important people, ideas, and conversations.
Why create siliconANGLE? Do we need another blog?
Why create a blog when blogging seems to be so "yesterday"? Well blogging compliments the real time web in a big way. For me it's about innovation and invention. This blog will be focused on the positive trends in entrepreneurship and new invention around the social web and technology.
Over the past few years I've helped other entrepreneurs and business executives with their ventures. Now, I'm looking to continue that but instead scaling with a group of peers via this blog and a focused research approach. Creating a group approach of quality people to sharing their experiences and knowledge helps others. My goal is to create a global collaborative hub.
This is a self-funded project, and my expectation is to take is slow at first. So I'm looking for advice, guidance, and support. Comment, email me, or join.
Silicon Angle Imperative - A Mandate To Create Positive Change
The mandate of siliconANGLE is to promote entrepreneurship, discovery, and invention to create sparks of innovation which will spawn new venture creation. The siliconANGLE group is dedicated to recognizing those ‘rock stars’ that have something interesting to say or contribute. We place the highest value on people that promote and create innovation, jobs, wealth, peace, and better global citizenship as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.
Old School Philosophy - Power of Quality
Back in the early days of blogging I realized that there is a powerful impact of publishing quality voices, ideas, opinion, and analysis of people creating new products, companies, and markets. What I've found is that the power of publishing about quality ideas and quality people not only creates a good user experience, but also creates relationships that can create positive change - one that causes people to connect and collaborate.
As an entrepreneur I see the value in a blog that creates a collaborative peer-group atmosphere that takes the 'real time' news and information and turns it into quality content with ideas, commentary, analysis, and opinion - a conversation. A conversation among peers and colleagues.
Positioning of siliconANGLE - Social Science Meets Computer Science
siliconANGLE is a place where computer science meets social science. This blog will be a open place for quality people to post content about the changes going on around the world in context to social and technology change. siliconANGLE is a place for people who want to blog without all the hassles of being a full time blogger. It's a collaborative hub of peers and colleagues. Everyone is welcome to join, comment, and share links, but only individuals that have been vetted and approved can post.
We'll be doing podcasts as well as blogging and twittering in topics such as news, trends, social media, infrastructure 2.0, politics, research and development, companies that are innovating, venture capital, startups, and places of innvoation like Silicon Valley and international equivalents. We will have a strong editorial policy to provide the best content from the most qualified people and this will include people from companies. There is no church and state business model here. The group will allow content from corporations on any topic as long as it's relevant. The overall mission is to promote quality and discourage useless information. The goal is to provide signal not noise.
New Venture Creation - A New Generation of Entrepreneurs
Another reason for this blog is to accelerate the new venture creation process here in Silicon Valley and around the world.
In this next evolution of the global Internet there is an explosion of large-scale new market trends and opportunities. These opportunities will be powered by a new generation of entrepreneurs ready and available to create ideas, companies, products, jobs, and wealth. Even with the looming financial crisis and outdated venture capital models, there has never been a better time to start a company.
Today, we are seeing that large companies are reducing their workforce releasing thousands of available talent and expertise. The workforce structure is now global with collaboration capabilities spread across geographic boundaries. The simultaneous decline of organized core and applied research and restrictive H1b Visa limits create different paradigms of how to identify, filter, and organize companies of the future. This emerging paradigm changes the research and development process. Large companies no longer have the ability to innovate in-house due to cost and expense constraints, so they will increasingly turn to startups to fill product gaps and provide for product line expansion.
With costs to start a company decreasing there are new business and revenue models emerging and solidifying, and a whole new generation of digital technology of tools and platforms omnipresent: Facebook, Google's Open Social, iPhone, Gphone, Broadband Technologies, and even digital set top boxes. New entrepreneurs, however, face lots of obstacles in making their vision a reality, and many great ideas and great talent never get out of the starting gate. siliconANGLE will seize this opportunity.
siliconANGLE is focused on helping entrepreneurs and companies by providing information and collaboration (including research) to help those entrepreneurs and companies be successful in their new ventures.
siliconANGLE hopes to be a Silicon Valley beacon for global cutting-edge ideas and cutting-edge talent. siliconANGLE is designed so that we win only if entrepreneurs win - ideas, opportunities, innovation and invention is our focus.
We hope to bring the experience and expertise to make people successful by providing the 'gravity' around ideas and innovation to create a virtual social network, a peer collaboration environment, talent matching, capital, advice, and practical guidance to help entrepreneurs and businesses succeed.
Again this is completely self-funded therefore my expectations are to start slowly. I really want to know what I can add to the blog and what features people would want to see here. Collaborate here at siliconANGLE.com.
Team
Founder: John Furrier, Palo Alto ,CA
Linkedin Profile: John Furrier
Facebook: John Furrier
Content Team
Founder and Editor: John Furrier
Editors:
Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins - Managing Editor
Sean P. Aune - Section Editor (Mobile)
Contributors:
Contributors are all entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists, analysts, business executives, CTOs, and top bloggers with unique and specialized domain expertise as determined by Silicon Angle editors.
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