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About Miss Pivot – The Confidence Company

Going on three years ago Josh Mitchell pitched me on the idea of ‘Pivots’ – a professional wingman or wingwoman – I’m pretty sure the title is gender specific to female, and doubly sure that the Urban Dictionary could clear up my confusion, should I want to verify my memory’s guesswork. I honestly didn’t give [...]

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You did what with your phone?

Sometime’s I’m impressed by technology. And usually if it has anything to do with mobile tech, or cool ways to use it, it’s my friend Brian (@brrn) who is showing me the hot new thing. He’s always had the latest and greatest phone, and is always trying out new firmwares, apps, radio versions. You name [...]

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How Apple screwed a major chunk of its customers

I was a little slow on the iPhone uptake, not jumping on the bandwagon until late 2009 after the 3GS was released. It so happened that the Best Buy I visited was out of the 3GS model, so I opted for the cheaper (but still shiny) iPhone 3G.

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Securing yourself over public wifi (the firesheep dilemma)

Last week my roommate and I were made privy via the violent outburst of Firesheep rumors on Twitter about the software’s capability, and instantly we were compelled to try out the software. Not because of malicious intent mind you (we only targeted each others’ accounts) but rather to test the security of our own browsing [...]

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There is no NDA in the word Genius.

Two entrepreneurship-focused events in the past week have me reeling over the topic of Non Disclosure Agreements, patents, and intellectual property protection. There are certainly times and places for all these topics, but not at networking groups where the business ideas being tossed around are as kinetically valuable as grocery store brand toilet paper (still [...]

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