Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal is an eight-time entrepreneur who has spent the past 21 years seeding new ventures in the digital media, social networking, software-as-a-service, network infrastructure and mobile device segments. His primary projects right now are: Unicorn Labs, a builder of iOS Games, eBooks and Apps; Square Connect, an iPhone-based universal remote control builder; and Phoenix Energy, a biomass power plant maker. He also maintains a blog called The Network Garden and a Posterous Micro-Blog site.

The price of greatness: Three takeaways from the biography of Steve Jobs

The price of greatness: Three takeaways from the biography of Steve Jobs

Thoughts on the scarcity of great leaders.

by  | @netgarden  | +Mark Sigal | 20 December 2011

From the moment he got sick in 2003 to when he died in October of this year, Steve Jobs was never fully healthy again. Yet, Jobs led his team to a series of triumphs that have no equal in the annals of business. Mark Sigal explores what this says about Jobs as a leader and the price that greatness demands.

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You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing

You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing

An examination of the post-PC wave and its major players.

by  | @netgarden  | +Mark Sigal | 24 October 2011

Spurred on by a Googler's rant against his own company and Apple's release of a new phone, a new OS and a new cloud infrastructure, Mark Sigal wonders what the "post-pc" revolution really looks like.

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Amazon's "Prime" challenger to the iPad

Why Amazon's Kindle tablet can succeed where others have failed.

by  | @netgarden  | +Mark Sigal | 26 September 2011

While conventional wisdom says that to compete with the iPad you must emulate Apple's best practices, Mark Sigal argues that Amazon can do just fine by blazing its own trail.

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Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs

Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs

PC, mobile, music, film, post-pc: Steve Jobs played an important part in disrupting them all.

by  | @netgarden  | +Mark Sigal | 25 August 2011

Apple, under Steve Jobs, has always had an unrelenting zeal to bring the consumer — and humanity — back to the center of the ring. Here, Mark Sigal argues that it's this pursuit of humanity that may actually be Jobs' greatest innovation.

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Is the enterprise dead as a tablet strategy?

Is the enterprise dead as a tablet strategy?

Conventional wisdom about the "consumerization of IT" is missing the big picture.

by  | @netgarden  | +Mark Sigal | 12 July 2011

A confluence of factors, most notably the crash of the dotcom bubble and the rise of Apple, led to the consumerization of IT. But Mark Sigal says tablet makers are missing a golden opportunity by ignoring the enterprise.

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The Great Reset: Why tomorrow may not be better than today

The Great Reset: Why tomorrow may not be better than today

Hard truths about our values, the economy and the outlook for the future.

by  | @netgarden  | +Mark Sigal |  8 July 2011

Mark Sigal says we're entering a period where the promise of a better tomorrow is no longer a generational expectation and our sense of a (mostly) fair and balanced system is being drowned by an elite class.

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