by Bruce Turkel | Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
At 5:45 last Sunday morning, I walked into the lobby of the Hilton Hotel on 53rd Street in Manhattan and joined the crowd getting ready to run the New York Marathon. I was amazed by the energy of groups of nylon-clad athletes waiting to head to Staten Island and the...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
A couple of blog posts ago, I wrote about the opportunities of small ideas. How Internet technology (among other things) had made it easier and easier for entrepreneurially minded people to develop their concepts. We talked about the iPhone Scrabble game Words With...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
My laptop broke so I’m writing this blog post longhand. There was an afternoon once when I was at lunch and got inspired and thumb-typed an article on my phone but this the first time I’ve ever written a post with a pen and paper. Even that wasn’t so easy because...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
I like to run. I don’t like to lift weights. That’s why I’m skinny and train for marathons instead of being big and buff. But this morning during my training run it occurred to me that the two sports have something very profound in common. Quite simply, there’s no...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
When his gloved hands were too far down my throat for me to answer, the dentist told me I needed a gum graft. “But I don’t do that,” he added, “You need to see a periodontist.” I nodded. And after I took care of my co-pay, I got the referral, made the appointment and...
