Sports Business: I Got Tired of Looking at Ten Sites. So I Built One Site for Everybody. The Comunicano Sports Intelligence Scoreboard Somewhere between my third browser tab and my fourth coffee, I had the thought that has launched a thousand startups: there has to be a better way. Sports business news is everywhere. Front … Read more
GitHub Is Not a Developer Tool. It’s a Thinking Tool.
Here is what nobody tells you about GitHub. It was not built for coders. It was built for people who believe that the best ideas should never die in someone’s head or disappear in an email thread. Developers just got there first. I am not a software engineer. I do not write code. I cannot … Read more
The Structured CRM Is Dead. The Unstructured One Just Showed Up.
For 25 years, we’ve been pouring the messy reality of business relationships into tidy little boxes. First name. Last name. Company. Title. Last contact date. Stage. We did it because we had no choice. Software couldn’t read a meeting transcript, parse an email thread, or make sense of a voice memo. So we trained an … Read more
The Phone Call is No Longer the End of the Story
While this is about the phone call, it has broader implications for how knowledge workers manage the information that lives and dies, inside phone calls. Every day, business happens over the phone. Deals get shaped. Problems get solved. Relationships get built or broken. And then, almost universally, the details evaporate. Not anymore. Today I built … Read more
Why I Started DevLocker.dev
Sports Tech Has a Discovery Problem. I Built DevLocker.dev to Fix It. I’ve spent most of my career around markets that were early, fragmented, fast-moving, and misunderstood. That includes telecom. That includes collaboration. That includes developer platforms. And long before much of that, it included sports. What I’ve learned over the years is simple: every … Read more
From Shirt Sponsorships to Signaling Control: Meta, Arsenal and the New Communications Land Grab
The news that Arsenal has signed a global partnership with Meta, bringing Facebook and WhatsApp further into the club’s commercial and fan engagement engine, is more than just another football sponsorship. It is a reminder that communications platforms have always sought cultural distribution to accelerate network effects. We have seen this before. In the early … Read more
Why vCons and the Claude Code Advisor Strategy Are a Telecom CTO’s Next Big Move
Every so often, a new idea comes along that is not just a product feature or a cost-saving tweak, but a real architectural shift. Anthropic’s Advisor Strategy is one of those ideas. At its core, the concept is simple. You let a faster, lower-cost model do the routine work. When something complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes … Read more
Why Apple Should Buy Zapier
There is a moment in every technology cycle when one acquisition changes everything. Apple buying NeXT was one. Apple buying Beats was another. Both looked odd to outsiders and obvious to insiders. The next one on that list should be Zapier. Here is why this matters right now. We are living through the quiet demolition … Read more
No Tickets for You: How Not To Treat a Fan
Remember the “Soup Nazi” in Seinfeld. He would say, “No soup for you.” Well, it sounds like the Los Angeles Dodgers just became the “Ticket Nazis.” From an experience standpoint, I’ve crossed the lines of sports and tech for years. I’ve also handled crisis management for brands large and small. Those who avoid controversy do … Read more
The Andy Analysis: NCAA Sponsorship
When you have been around sports, telecom, media rights, and more than a few boardrooms, you start to recognize something very quickly. Marketing wants velocity. Legal wants certainty. Nowhere does that tension show up more clearly than around NCAA tentpole events like March Madness and the Final Four. I have watched this movie before. Different … Read more