... by Matt Noah
We help people build and enhance their network of contacts in the "com and .com" world.

• Organizational rules in a centerless world
• Charisma as core competency
• How riches are won or lost in e-commerce
• Regional winners and losers in the digital economy

While editing ASAP, Karlgaard worked with writers such as Tom Wolfe, Mark Helprin, Camille Paglia, Peter Drucker, Robert Kaplan, Stanley Crouch, Esther Dyson, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others.

Before starting ASAP, Karlgaard co-founded and edited Upside magazine, a monthly magazine covering the computer industry and high-tech investment. Karlgaard also co-founded the 2,500 member Churchill Club, a nonprofit public affairs organization located in Silicon Valley. For this effort, he was named a Northern California winner of the 1997 Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.

In 1997, as a hobby, Karlgaard co-founded garage.com with Guy Kawasaki and Craig Johnson. garage.com is the leading Web-based startup capital firm in the world, whose investors include Compaq chairman Ben Rosen. Karlgaard remains a board member of garage.com.

Karlgaard is a regular guest on CNN/FN's "Digital Jam", an acclaimed industry speaker, has written several Manager's Journal columns for The Wall Street Journal.

In 1998, he was named to Upside magazine's Elite 100 in the computer and communications industries.

Karlgaard is a graduate of Stanford. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two children. He is originally from Bismarck, North Dakota.