Ben Behrouzi Blog

Over many years and with many trials and tribulations in both business and in my personal life, I have been convinced that in this world there are 2 types of people; those that build and those that destroy. Those that build embody the positive spirits of creativity, love and creating value. While, those that destroy embody [...]

The May 2009 Flip Mino Random Giveaway is now officially complete and the winner has been selected!

A big thank you to all the contestants and participants! Thank you for all the great tweets, follows and fun comments. So who’s the lucky winner?

Its hard to imagine that its been almost 25 years since my parents secretly smuggled many of our family members out of Iran due to brutal religious persecution.  Persecution that is unfortunately picking up once again in todays time.
A reader asked me to provide more info about this portion of my background and so I offered [...]

With all the publicity around WolframAlpha’s engine there has been a lot of buzz in the search space around what the next successful search engine will look like. It was great to get some coverage today from ChannelWeb as they covered WolframAlpha, LeapFish and the Search space.
Here is a snippet from the post :
“With [...]

May 2009 Twitter Giveaway!  The March 2009 Twitter MackBook Air Giveaway went so well that I’m being asked for more!  So this time I’m giving away a Free Flip Mino HD Video Recorder, suited for quick and easy capture and upload of videos to the web.
But you have to be in it to Win it! [...]

I was asked by Forbes this week to offer up some experience around some actions companies can take during tough economic times like these to maintain or even increase employee happiness and wellbeing. We all know that without a happy and thriving team, there’s no growth, especially in a recession.

At DotNext we strive to employ a [...]

San Francisco Business Times :  “Reply.com’s online sales lead system tallies big growth”
As a founder and former CTO and Chief of Product of Reply!, it was great to see Reply! featured in the San Francisco Business Times today.  Reply! was founded in June of 2001 by Payam Zamani, Myself and John Truchard and is a [...]

LeapFish received a great post as part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series last week.  The post was written by Ben Parr, who highlights some of our innovative new search features including the No-Click Search. 
Here are some excerpts from the article :

“Genius Idea:  When you’re performing a Google search, you are displayed information in a simple and [...]

The March Twitter MacBook Air Random Giveaway is now officially complete and the winner has been selected!   
A big thank you to over 1500 contestants and participants, even those that joined Twitter simply to be eligible for this Apple Laptop giveaway.  Thank you for all the great tweets, follows and fun comments.  So who’s the lucky [...]

Win a Wii & Wii Fit from LeapFish

LeapFish is excited to be giving away a Brand New Wii & Wii Fit to one lucky LeapFisher on March 23, 2009!  Everyone knows the Wii is tons of fun with tons of action and best of all you can use the Wii Fit to get in shape just in [...]

Hi, I’m Ben Behrouzi, and you should probably get the popcorn right now.  And don’t forget the butter.  Below are the most recent and most fashionable rumors about me online.  I try to update the list as frequently as possible but I may be a bit behind, so I do apologize in advance.
As you may already know its [...]

Robert Scoble, the Scobleizer, one of the key technical evangelists and thought leaders of the web will be leaving Fast Company.  Robert will continue to help and support entreprenuers worldwide in new and different capacities that he will soon announce at SXSW. 
I had the pleasure of meeting Robert in February as he provided coverage on [...]

You have to be in it to Win it!  
Want to win a  Free MacBook Air?  It could be the highest ROI on any Tweet you ever send.  I’m Ben Behrouzi, serial entrepreneur, and I’m giving away a brand new MacBook Air to one cool Twitter follower, Free!  One follower will be selected on March [...]

Recently there have been big uproars regarding the growing lack of responsiblity of some blogs and the mob attacks that are set to follow their posts.  For some peculiar reason some bloggers seem to believe they can post whatever they want to, running around like cowboys from the wild wild west shooting from the hip [...]

I just wrote a piece on the recent increasing persecution of the Baha’is of Iran.  Most recently, several key community members of the Baha’is of Iran were kidnapped, charged without any evidence, imprisoned without access to a lawyer and now, one year later, scheduled for a staged trial that will determine their fate.  In 1980, the [...]