A little over 3 years ago, I sold CustomScoop to CARMA. That closed a 15-year chapter that began in 2000 when I co-founded one of the first online media monitoring services, but opened a whole new one with the acquiring company. Today, I’m marking the end of that chapter and will soon begin another new…
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…
You know what this is. If you are one of the few who hasn’t been challenged yet, feel free to use this as your opportunity. Just leave a note in the comments. Thanks to Brian Griffin and Joe Vidulich for making sure I didn’t get left out. I sure do appreciate it.
Disruptive ideas don’t always have to be fancy inventions or monumental scientific discoveries. Sometimes, it’s just some healthy common sense provided in a compelling fashion. Delivered to the right person at the right time, it can have a truly disruptive impact. That’s how I see CC Chapman’s latest book, Amazing Things Will Happen. It’s got…
As I was perusing the November 2011 issue of Popular Mechanics (via the Zinio app on my iPad, of course), I came across a brief item about the British Antarctic Survey and the discovery of some active undersea volcanoes in the South Atlantic Ocean. “New species have been found nearby,” reports the magazine. I have…
I have found myself this week spending a lot of time thinking about what is in store in the future. I have been pondering this question from a number of different angles, including business, product, marketing, technology, and more. I’ve even been considering where I’m headed personally when it comes to things like running (do…
Yesterday I completed my first half marathon. And that was goal #1: to finish. Check. My secondary goal was to finish in less than 2:30. I beat that mark by a bit more than 5 minutes, coming in at 2:24:44. So a successful experience. Of course, I have lots of room for improvement still. I…