Surviving Market Turbulence
The current credit and equity crisis is bad, but it has been made worse because too many people unwisely buy high and sell low.
Most successful startups have a sense of urgency about them. It is something that individuals can exhibit and can be manifested across an entire team or company. Urgency can help breed success. Misplaced or misunderstood urgency can be extremely damaging, however. In my experience the sense of urgency in business is often not well comprehended….
I went to the local farmer’s market this morning, and just about every stall was selling piles and piles of tomatoes. Now, I wasn’t all that interested in tomatoes since it was 58 degrees out (hints of fall are finally in the air here in New Hampshire). But that’s not what really struck me. What…
Much electronic ink has already been spilled over Apple’s decision to make in-app subscription purchasing available — at a 30% fee. I’m about to spill some more. Today’s open letter from Readability re-stokes the controversy as it claims that Software-as-a-Service providers are now ensnared in the new policy, not just media publishers and content providers….
This spring and summer I served as a volunteer umpire for the baseball league in which both of my sons played. I have always been a bit of a baseball rules nerd and umpired a few games back when I was a teenager. But this was the first year that I found myself on the…
Peter Shankman, founder of Help A Reporter Out, talked about why he started a simple email list that turned into a blossoming enterprise. He explains who uses HARO and why and even discusses some upcoming feature enhancements he has up his sleeve.
At CustomScoop recently, we have had some conversations about how I tend to “parachute in” to various discussions. Some of it is of my own doing, inserting myself into something that I have an interest in or opinion on, while sometimes it is at the request of one or another team member who wants to solicit my feedback or advice.