eM+C writes of a subject that shouldn't surprise us, that moms are a strong force in the online world. Here are just a couple of the stats that struck me:

• Moms comprise more than 40 percent of the adult female Internet population
• 85 percent of online moms use e-mail
• 64 percent pay bills
• 57 percent read news
• 49 percent research products
• 45 percent shop for children
• 44 percent shop for self
• 69.4 percent of U.S. moms visited one or more social media sites in March 2009
• 58 percent of online moms named b...

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Below is the breakdown of the startups and acquisitions of the top 15 states, according to TechCrunch in their post today entitled, Are Silicon Valley Startups More Likely to be Acquired. No surprise, Silicon Valley dominates, followed by NY, MA, TX and WA. Sadly, Arizona (where I reside and choose to call home) is at the bottom of the list, again not really a surprise.

Before we go cry in our beer...again...over why Phoenix (or Pittsburgh, or Denver, or Atlanta, etc.) isn't Silicon Valley, Bo...
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My partners and I have been working with novel software startups for many years and inevitably the question of patents arises. Investors often equate defensibility -- the creation of barriers to entry -- to patentable intellectual property.  Unfortunately, for most software or software-related startups (i.e. software-as-a-services, Web applications, Internet-enabled businesses, mobile services ventures, etc.) there are very few instances where the innovation that has been developed is natural...
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