Mark Roberge
Mark Roberge, CEO of PawSpot, discusses his startup.
A major global PR agency recently announced that they were doing away with their co-CEO arrangement. Believe it or not, they had three individuals holding the co-CEO title. Leadership can be shared, but ultimate responsibility for day-to-day business decisions cannot. Harry S Truman’s desk sign didn’t say “the buck stops here … and here ……
David Cohen and Brad Feld assembled a nice collection of anecdotes and advice for entrepreneurs with Do More Faster. Based on learnings from their TechStars program and the experience of a large collection of entrepreneurs, investors, lawyers, and others, this book offers up plenty of nuggets that anyone in the startup community will relate to…
Like many advocates of the new media era, I spend a lot of time consuming blogs (like this one) and other social media. Frequently, I find myself realizing that the only traditional journalism I have read recently is content shared on some social network. That’s unfortunate. Read the rest of this post on Media Bullseye.
In communications and in business, too many people get hung up on measuring for the sake of measuring. Just because you can generate all sorts of metrics with impressive numbers and charts doesn’t mean that what you’re looking at will really make a difference in your ultimate success. I tackle one specific element of this…
Ambition means different things to different people. For some, it is an essential quality. To others, it can have a negative connotation. As an employer, how do you view ambition when it comes to employees? In my experience, the best employees all have ambition. Now, that doesn’t mean that they need to be ambitious in…
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…