Mark Roberge
Mark Roberge, CEO of PawSpot, discusses his startup.
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New York Times iPad App Comes Up Just Short
I really want to like the New York Times iPad app. You see, I have taken to really liking the iPad as my primary reading tool. I read books on it (mostly with the Kindle app). I read magazines (mostly with Zinio, but also a handful of publication-specific apps). I read newspapers (like the Wall…
Adversarial relationships
Too often I see agency leaders who treat relationships with clients or employees as adversarial in nature. That’s the wrong way to think of it. Both parties — agency and client or employer and employee — have some shared interests and some interests that diverge. That means that there will be some natural give and…
The Perils of Platform Proliferation
In my early years of engagement with technology in the 1980’s, there were quite a few platforms available. A wide variety of operating systems and hardware providers battled for prominence in the marketplace. If you’re of a certain age, you may smile or cringe as you think back to names like Commodore 64, Apple II, Macintosh, TRS-80, Tandy 1000, IBM PC Jr., and Amiga. And that’s just a few of the more consumer-friendly offerings in the marketplace!
The Web Makes Disruption Easy and Customers Fickle
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Do Tech Startups Need Professional PR Help?
At the risk of alienating all of my remaining friends in the public relations industry, I thought I might share some of my running commentary during today’s For Immediate Release broadcast on Blog Talk Radio. The subject was startup PR and the jumping off point was Jason Calacanis’ blog post from a few months ago in which he argued essentially that the startup CEO should head PR, not an outside agency.