Author Archives: Paul Allen

Father’s Day idea 💡 Last week in Denver I got to pay tribute to my 93-year old genius father — a manufacturing engineer whose classification and decision tree software was used by dozens of the largest manufacturing companies in the world. But more than that, he was my dad. I always knew he loved me,Continue reading “Ways to Remember Fathers: Create Lasting Audio and Video Tributes”

Ancestry was an awesome idea — but what catapulted us more than anything was launching a social network for families called MyFamily dot com. CitizenPortal is an awesome idea — but what will catapult us more than anything is evolving from a news engine (300,000 local, state and federal govt news stories per month) toContinue reading “Launching a Social Network: Key Insights”

Yesterday our amazing Fatma Tarlaci, Ph.D. was on a panel at the CAIO Summit in NYC. In 2020 she (as a contractor for Soar) helped us build our first 5 ML models for AI feedback on sales calls the old fashioned way, with thousands of marked up files and labelled data points, fed into GPT-Neo.Continue reading “AI Innovations at CAIO Summit: Insights from Fatma Tarlaci”

I’ve never considered using private equity before but I heard a most inspiring story of Kelso Industries rolling up 29 MEP companies into a billion dollar a year company in five years) — and keeping the founders and operators in place to make sure service isn’t compromised. Now, I’m hatching a plan to help trainingContinue reading “The Future of Training: Merging AI and Private Equity”

Governor Hochul talking about jobs, tech, industry and AI at NY Tech Week Axios event. She says there are 2,000 AI companies in NY state. 100,000 govt employees to be trained with help of AI. She says NY state is leading the nation in protecting kids online – with key laws passed last year MetContinue reading “Hochul’s Vision: Making New York the Gold Standard for Tech Laws”

It’s a LOT easier to raise startup capital when you have a 2025 growth chart that looks like this. If you are looking to invest in an AI company that is seeking to make the world a better place, take a look at CitizenPortal dot AI. This site began with the question: what if allContinue reading “Empowering Communities: The Future of Governance with Citizen Portal”

My brother went to an event for employees from hundreds of cities and towns. There was a space for vendors. One vendor was featuring playground equipment. Apparently, almost no one came to his booth that day. My brother showed him how Citizen Portal could help him search for cities and towns and school districts thatContinue reading “Boost Playground Equipment Sales with Citizen Portal”

I was a paper boy at age 12 or 13.My route was pretty easy.I would fold papers after school, rubber band them, then ride my bike and frisbee throw papers to the front porch.I only broke 1 window.I hated monthly “collecting” — waiting while people wrote checks.I think I made about $30 a month. NotContinue reading “Reviving Local News: The Impact of Citizen Portal”

Is there a better single metric predictor of success in sales or business development than percentage of time spend with customers? I saw one VC who said the only metric they track from their SaaS CEOs is how many hours a week they spent WITH CUStOMERS and POTENTiAL CUSTOMERS! Steve Blank tells founders to “getContinue reading “Uncovering the Secret to Sales: Customer Engagement Metrics”

Remember when *websitegrader* put Hubspot on the map? I do Millions of web masters tried it It’s time for all sales people everywhere to level up with the help of AI. Type “yes” in the comments to get free access to an awesome AI tool that will help you know what you’re doing well andContinue reading “Level Up Your Sales Skills with AI Tools”