Author Archives: James O'Connor

The Role And Value of Connectors

Startup Babson launched recently and myself along with a handful of driven people from Babson are working to help create a more cohesive community. With the launch of our student (alum too) run effort, it’s had me thinking a lot … Continue reading

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Search Is Caveman Speak… And How Our Speech Is Evolving

If you had a log of all the search terms you’ve ever keyed into a search engine, you would laugh in recognizing that each term employs a caveman’s degree of sophistication to express your needs, wants, interests and desires. Now … Continue reading

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What Startup America Means For Boston

I’ve spent this Saturday morning catching up on some of the news and analysis of the Startup America announcement from this week. It’s an exciting initiative and it is a great follow up to President Obama’s State of the Union … Continue reading

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The ‘Me-Too’ Business Checklist

Who remembers WebCrawler, Lycos, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com), Hotbot, or Dogpile? For those of you early web users, the names will recall slowly loading pages and web 1.0 graphics. These companies make up a list of search engines that … Continue reading

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My First Blog Post… Again

I’m excited about this next phase of my blogging endeavors here at jamestheiii.com. This is my first post having moved my domain onto WordPress (many thanks Andy for the assistance). I had somewhat of a false start getting this site … Continue reading

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