Most small businesses have it really rough. Whether they are retail or b2b, marketing is a huge problem for them because the can't do sponsorships, brand strategy, advertising and slick PR like the big boys. They've still got to get ...READ»
There's a long story behind this launch post. I'm on the advisory board of EmpowHer.com,
a women's health site founded by a friend of mine, Michelle Robson, who
had an awful experience with the health care system and decided ...READ»
Yesterday, we reported that popular personal finance site Mint.com would be sold to Intuit for $170 million, just a few weeks after Founder and CEO Aaron Patzer closed a fresh $14 million round of "preemptive" funding. "We could have ...READ»
While I have been "celebrating" the recession in Silicon Valley, some of my buddies in Arizona have been working on a new product. Long-time friend and client Marc Williams of Bobcat Wizards and a team of trusted advisors will launch ...READ»
A couple of nights ago I had the prvilege to hear Tom Milsom, a 20-year-old musician play music for friends in my living room. A mutual friend had "discovered" him on YouTube. And he was wonderful.I wrote a blog post about that ...READ»
A couple of nights ago I had the prvilege to hear Tom Milsom, a 20-year-old musician play music for friends in my living room. A mutual friend had "discovered" him on YouTube. And he was wonderful.I wrote a blog post about that ...READ»
The one-time Google advertising honcho has been at the helm of AOL for 100 days. What's he done, what's next, and can he save the online giant from irrelevance?READ»
Information. Sustainability initiatives can’t succeed unless you
know where you are starting out, what you are doing, and where you are
going. Especially if the Obama Administration’s cap-and-trade bill
becomes law, ...READ»
You can't just make a web site anymore and hope people will come. You can't even blog anymore and hope people will come, although good blogging software like Wordpress has built-in SEO (search engine optimization). You have to do ...READ»
For many reasons, I’m interested in the next generation Internet. Today I’m at Launch SIlicon Valley, watching ten companies in this space present their concepts.
I haven’t finished listening, but I have already jumped ...READ»
It's everyone's patriotic duty to help Michigan. We are, indeed, at war, but it's not with terrorists, it's with the worst elements of ourselves.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but it has been a powerful day for me, a ...READ»
Sramana Mitra's Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction
is a book for our time, because it's something real out of Silicon
Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO
in six months. In this, the ...READ»
Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products.
The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»
Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products.
The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»
Today I delivered a web site to a small welding company in Phoenix, to whom I have served as a marketing consultant under a City-financed technical assistance program. They're the original mom and pop, and this was their first web ...READ»
Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products.
The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»
When I became involved in the American Biofuels Council three years ago, the push for biofuels was at its highest point in the technology hype cycle. Now, in Arizona, under the aegis of the Desert Biofuels Initiative, a non-profit ...READ»
I'm just finishing Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridges' Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR.
You
will want to read this book. It collated many thoughts I've ...READ»
My friend Jeremiah, over at Forrester, really understands social media for brands. Here's a presentation he gave that I think sums it up. Go where the fish are, he says. Too many startups are trying to reinvent the wheel.READ»
In the spirit of avoiding the things everyone else is already telling you from SXSW, I didn't go to hear Dave Morin announce Facebook Connect's availability for iPhone, or Larry Lessig's presentation on how to change Congress. ...READ»
I've written about this before, but here I go again.
Entrepreneurship will get us out of the recession. Why? Because jobs are a lagging indicator of the economy, and job losses will continue even after the economy improves. ...READ»
In an op-ed post in Sunday's New York Times, Tom Friedman rightly says we need to quit bailing out the losers and start dedicating resources to the innovators. However, he jumps the track when he says money should be given to venture ...READ»
The Arizona Department of Education has invited me to speak to them today about state standards for teaching high school kids about entrepreneurship. This forces me to think what young entrepreneurs (and their teachers) really need to ...READ»
Every once in a while I find someone's blog that I think should be shared with startups. Pat Sullivan is a friend of mine, and a serial entrepreneur/founder. I always wonder why he gets involved with what he does, and here he talks ...READ»
