As mentioned in my last post, I suspected that last week would prove to be extremely interesting. I was, in fact, not disappointed. The Paypal X Innovate event was much what you would expect. I will comment on some of my learnings and perceptions, in context, over the next several weeks…but I must commend PayPal [...]

Just a quick post…as i sit in the airport awaiting departure.  This promises to be quite an interesting week.  I am flying to San Francisco today for a series of events that I find rather compelling. The week begins with the PayPal X Innovate event.  Personally, the event is compelling as PayPal is one of [...]

Recently, I completed a webinar series with the Microsoft ISV Innovation team.  The goal was simple, and ridiculously ambitious, to provide a useful overview of the payments industry to software companies in 1 hour.  As you can imagine the material that “should” be covered can span several days. . .It was an interesting exercise in [...]

I have spent much of the last week focusing on preparing content for the upcoming training events…My office mate, in an effort to keep me from grumbling too much, recommended a quick Starbucks. Caffeine is my friend.  My close friend. Imagine our surprise when we reached the main level of the building (our office is [...]

I’m pleased to announce, at least via this blog, that I will be presenting an upcoming training series on commerce and software in partnership with Microsoft.  Frankly, I’m rather excited about the opportunity to engage with the ISV community in this fashion.  The sessions themselves are only 1 hour long and occur on June 10-12.  [...]