I went to the Root Cause Social Innovation Forum’s Showcase this past week at Microsoft’s NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. Microsoft was a great host to the hundreds of people who gathered. Hosting this event in the neighborhood of MIT, where so much innovation has been brought to light, was fitting. [...]
Celtics legend Bill Russell is very committed to mentorship.
It is a gift to be guided and certain times. It can be an even more wonderful gift to give as well.
As Russell was honored recently in Boston he spoke of the importance of mentorship in his life and quoted a poem that has stayed with him:
“It [...]
Some say Spring officially arrives in New England with Red Sox Opening Day or Partiots Day.
I say it begins when “ice out” is declared on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. This is generally around the same time the Bruins are being tossed out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs!
I witnessed “ice out” in one of Winnipesaukee’s [...]
I’m the CEO of Swap.com. We’ve set out to become the largest online swap market in the world. We let people list their unwanted items, like music and movies, on our website and swap them for stuff they do want.
Our business model requires users to place a great deal of trust both in our company [...]
We have all swapped things in our lives. For me swapping started in the lunch room in first grade. As I grew older, I continued to swap, trading cards, marbles, and sports equipment. Today, I trade tickets and toys for my kids. Most of these swaps have come through friends and family [...]
Today we launched our Mobile App at Swap.com and it is available for the iPhone on Apple’s iTunes App Store. We are psyched about this milestone. I have been using pre-release versions of the app for weeks now and I think it is very cool.
I have talked to many other Internet execs at RueLaLa, Kayak, [...]
Our community members at Swap.com are people who are trying to make the most out of the stuff that they have. We learned that many are teachers and librarians who have joined Swap.com so that they could swap for books that they need in their classrooms. These folks spend money out of their [...]
It is Spring!
Based on the harsh winter that we have endured in Boston, it is great to see the sun higher in the sky and for longer hours each day. Despite the fact that it is still kind of cold here you can tell that the good weather is right around the corner.
Spring has many [...]
If you caught last night’s episode of The Office, you may have noticed Dwight Shrute enacting his latest Machiavellian scheme: Turn his work-sponsored garage sale at Dunder Mifflin into a master class on the “art of the swap“…at the expense of his more gullible colleagues, of course.
Read the full post from the Swapping Ideas Blog [...]
When we were about to launch Swap4Schools we talked to five schools to help us get it going. I was delighted that my alma mater of Fitchburg High School could be part of this. Rich Masciarelli, the FHS Principal, was excited about a way for the library, which has no budget for new books, would be [...]
