Mark Roberge
Mark Roberge, CEO of PawSpot, discusses his startup.
I’m a big fan of checklists. There’s a reason why pilots and others in life-and-death roles rely on them to ensure things get done right. In business, we often develop processes to deal with repeatable activities — things like on-boarding clients, promoting events, and publishing content. Many times we will get a group together, think…
Fifteen years ago, I co-founded CustomScoop to provide a better media monitoring service. My partners and I were tired of the old-fashioned paper clipping services that would mail news stories sliced from hard copy newspapers every couple of weeks. It was slow, it was expensive, and it was impossible to budget for accurately. CustomScoop started…
Republican pollster David Winston, President of the Winston Group, discussed the upcoming elections.
In recent years, we have moved from an Internet saturated in ads to one heavily dependent upon subscriptions. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson makes a smart observation about this trend in his 2019 year-end post: “a subscription overload backlash is emerging as many consumers have signed up for more subscriptions than they need and in some…
I attended a great pre-conference dinner last night in Boulder, Colorado hosted by T.A. McCann, founder of Gist, where we talked about how tech entrepreneurs can have a greater impact on legislation and regulation, especially in Washington, DC. Naturally, with my background, that was a topic I had a lot to say about. And would have…
LinkedIn provides a valuable platform for individuals to build and nourish professional relationships. I was an early adopter of the service and regularly recommend it to recent graduates as a useful tool to help build their careers. But it’s far from perfect. Although it can help users to surface information about professional connections within their networks, there…