Steve Blank, 2/9/12

Author, 'The Four Steps to the Epiphany'

While MBA's have had a stack of texts to help them "execute" a business model, The Startup Owner's Manual joins the growing library of books for practitioners in "search" of a business model.

Ruth Eglash, 2/9/12

Journalist

More than 12,000 people "attended" the two-day online event, indicating that there is a solid base of people still committed to finding a way to resolve the on-going conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Robert Holleyman, 2/9/12

CEO, Business Software Alliance

Software piracy rates are highest in the developing world, where per capita incomes are lowest. For some observers, this correlation is evidence of causation. But that does not hold up under close scrutiny.

Robert Whent, 2/7/12

Entrepreneur in Residence, WEtech Alliance

You know when you type in a URL into your web browser and it comes up with a high-resolution image of R2-D2 that this is going to be a fun place to shop -- www.hammacher.com does just that. Geeks everywhere rejoice.

Wendy Sachs, 2/8/12

Writer, Author, TV Producer

Facebook Envy can be downright harmful to self esteem. But Facebook is an alternate universe, not reality. It's a ubiquitous PR machine where everyone's persona can sparkle brighter.

Alexander Howard, 2/8/12

Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O'Reilly Media

The growing importance of data journalism will be recognized in the first ever international Data Journalism Awards.

Julia Allison, 2/8/12

Journalist

Most airlines recognize Twitter and Facebook as effective and easy methods of both informing customers and mitigating public-relations disasters. The question really is: How comfortable are they in their social-media skin?

Women 2.0, 2/8/12

Enabling female tech entrepreneurs.

Women have to overcome the insecurities that appear when there is a perception of somehow falling behind others. We have to realize that there's room for everyone at the table and that we all won't take the same path to get there.

Amy Ephron, 2/8/12

Author

I have a complicated relationship with my Keurig. It was given to us at Christmas by my husband's children. I'd never seen anything like it before, which made them laugh hysterically (as it did half my friends).

Larry Magid, 2/7/12

Technology journalist

Despite what some people say, research from the best scholars has found that predators very rarely find victims online. They find them the old fashioned way: in their local communities.

Jack Hidary, 2/7/12

Entrepreneur

Astro Teller and Megan Smith of Google gathered 50 innovators this past week to brainstorm breakthroughs that could impact the world.

Jon Chattman, 2/7/12

Published Author, thecheappop.com/asidesmusic.com founder, Blogger

Before he threw his last pitch, Curt Schilling already had an idea what his next career would be. This week Schilling's 38 Studios has unleashed their first epic game which I can tell you is not a baseball game as you might think.

Keya Dannenbaum, 2/8/12

Founder and CEO, ElectNext

If 2012 is the year of the big data, and data is power, and this power is wielded with such dramatic asymmetry, how is our electoral and governance process still one that can be legitimately described as by the people, of the people and for the people?

Daniel Burrus, 2/7/12

Technology Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author

In fact, history is littered with companies that were the category leader and got displaced, even when they had full and total dominance. So although Facebook is very big and has dominance, its future is not guaranteed.

Melissa Richer, 2/7/12

Founder, Ayllu

Right now, social entrepreneurship is a hot trend and there are funders, conferences, university departments and newspaper sections devoted to it.

Christopher Burgess, 2/7/12

COO and CSO, Atigeo, LLC

Lose one, and the criminals will find a way to exploit them all. Easy way to remember that was given to me many years ago: Passwords are like toothbrushes; you don't share them and you change them regularly.

K. Sudhir, 2/6/12

Fellow, Yale Center for Customer Insights

The more a firm can flatten this hump, the more it will profit from customers who do not bleed the firm. So the question stands: when should a firm fire a customer?