Rose Cantine

Guido van den Elshout, owner of the glam boutique hotel, Haagsche Suites in The Hague, interviewed me and posted my responses to ten questions ranging from my favorite travel destinations to top three tips for visitors to San Francisco. Find out where I like to hangout in SF and Amsterdam, what I love and despise [...]

Check out this series of interviews with entrepreneurs on the NPR website. The series is called From Scratch. I enjoyed the interview with Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse (the famous Berkeley restaurant), and champion of “Slow Food”, good eating, organic farming, and enjoying food in the company of friends.

Here’s an article in Wired about Michael Arrington’s rise from blogger to mini-media empire. When he started Techcrunch, he had no idea it would turn out to be one of the most influential technology blogs. Unlike boring tech websites run by large media companies, Techcrunch has personality (like its founder) and passion. It’s not written [...]

I was having breakfast yesterday with Alexander Casassovici, a young entrepreneur from Paris, who was in Amsterdam for the Nextweb conference. Alexander’s startup Wavestorm develops technology for the “Internet of Things” — machine to machine communications via Wi-Fi. We were talking about how this tech “bubble” is different from the first one in the late [...]

Here are the first eight chapters on turning your blog into a media company. They are based on my experience as the founder of Muniwireless.com.
Part 1: birth of Muniwireless
Part 2: first year of Muniwireless
Part 3: finding a business model
Part 4: the Ninth Circle of Hell
Part 5: becoming a niche online publisher
Part 6: miracles happen [...]

Did you ever think that anyone writing a food blog could get published and end up on the Today Show? Clotilde Dusoulier, the woman behind the blog Chocolate and Zucchini, the best food blog in the world (in my opinion) recently published her first book and is now on a book tour in the US [...]

Recommended reading for anyone who decides to start a business is James Dyson’s autobiography entitled Against the Odds which Jason Fried of 37 Signals calls “one of the best books about design, business, invention, and entrepreneurship I’ve ever read.” Click here to read Jason’s post.
Dyson is the inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner. He calls [...]

Techcrunch posted this article about Hot or Not, a dating site set up in 2000 by James Hong and Jim Young out of their house. They never took outside funding. Over the years, the founders made $20 million. The site was taking in $600,000 per month in revenue (advertising and paid subscriptions). But last month, [...]

This is the story I like to tell often because it is so unbelievable. Back in May 2005, when Muniwireless.com had already established itself as the place to go to for all things muni Wi-Fi, I was wondering, how do I take it to the next stage? Many people were asking me to hold conferences [...]