How much of your swag dollar is wasted? You don’t know. If you had a way to compel people to do things for your brand that you would otherwise have to pay hundreds of dollars per person to ask them…
This weekend I participated in an amazing event at Startup Weekend Seattle. I found some great new friends, got the opportunity to pitch amazing ideas in front of a crowd, and contributed to an epic journey: building a complete startup from…
You’re thinking of starting a business? Hooray! Cool idea, and good luck. There are a few things that you can do to get started, and the first ought to be something counter-intuitive: don’t build your business plan. Yet. The first…
Just Get Going When I sat down to write my takeaways from the Big Omaha conference I attended this week, I struggled with finding a focus. And then I realized that the two key things that I learned from the speakers and…
Dear Twitter Friends (Tweeps): We’ve all done it – thought of a clever idea, jotted down 140 120 characters and then clicked “send.” Yet, as Dan Zarrella and others have noted, now is not always the best time to publish content.…
The ability to watch live sports anywhere at anytime is just. So. Cool. Ok, you say, “where have you been? Cable and Satellite providers have given us this ability for almost a decade at least. Welcome to the party.” There…
When you start a business, how do you know it will succeed? Clearly, you don’t – you can do as much market research as you want, write business plans, and try things – and ultimately, you don’t control the end…
Startups don’t just start – they also evolve. I’m excited that the next step in our evolution at Gist – where I’ve worked for the last year and half – is to be part of Research in Motion. When I…
How do you find you measure the “truth” in News? More and more these days, we tend to read the types of news, follow news aggregators, or friend or follow people on social networks with whom we agree. While this…
