A decade has passed since I co-founded CustomScoop back in the summer of 2000. It’s hard for that reality to sink in. It hardly seems like it has been that long since I worked with my wife and a few others to cobble together the morsels of an idea into a product we could actually…
The death of a little girl with cancer creates a sense of tragedy among even those who do not know her. The passing of a middle-aged man by a sudden heart attack reverberates with anyone over thirty. But when a centenarian dies peacefully in his sleep, only those who knew him take notice.
The vile conversations taking place in social media threaten its growth. That’s the subject of my latest commentary at Media Bullseye. Check it out and let me know if I’m full of hot air myself.
One of the most difficult decisions in business can be to fire a good guy who performs well. Usually when we think of firing employees, we think about the incompetent or lazy workers. We envision people who are disrespectful, make mistakes, or alienate co-workers and clients. The reality is, however, that sometimes people simply don’t…
Next week I will join a panel of entrepreneurs talking to students in an entrepreneurship class at the University of New Hampshire on the subject of failure. This is a subject that numerous entrepreneurs and investors have talked about in the blogosphere in recent years. I’m certain I have even chimed in on occasion. But…
Paul Kedrosky raised an interesting question at the Defrag Conference in Denver yesterday. He led a panel discussion that kept circling back to the notion of information overload, but Paul suggested that the 200+ people in the room likely represent edge cases who frequently overwhelmed by the amount of information that they have to process,…
Recently I started to write a blog post about the future of media. I planned to address the two big themes that I see playing a significant role in how we will produce and consume media in coming years. It spiraled a bit out of control and became a 30 page e-book titled The New…
Traditional (“old”) media finds itself experiencing an earthquake of change as online (“new”) media changes the rules of the game. Some publishers and broadcasters find themselves struggling to adapt, while others thrive on the ability to innovate. The competition becomes more intense by the day and the fears among old school journalists and media executives…
I was listening to Joseph Jaffe’s Across the Sound podcast recently and he expressed the oft-heard point of view that “content wants to be free.” Though I often agree with what Jaffe has to say, in this instance I must say “hogwash.” Simply put, there is no such thing as free content. Content providers receive…