On Friday, I had coffee with a guy who’s interested in a sales position at bitly. We talked for awhile mostly about what bitly was and what it meant to the web. Just before he left, David pulled this picture up on an iPad and said he hoped bitly became something similar. It stuck with me and I started thinking how often people ask what bitly will end up being…
Read MoreYou can create transparency through conversation because you know how others feel and everyone knows what’s going on. It's impossible and inappropriate to do all the time as you grow but essential to maintain in any culture you’ve created...
Read MoreStartups have no age limit, height requirement, or a record of years in an industry necessary to have a massive impact. The wise are not exclusively the elderly, youth is not wasted. Anyone can do anything at any time...
Read MoreMany of today’s most beloved services face a significant challenge in maintaining their popularity on a smaller screen with fewer opportunities to retain user attention...
Read MoreDecision-making around a new company is a thoughtful, creative and exhausting series of steps towards producing something meaningful. But it doesn’t need to take forever, in fact, it shouldn’t...
Read MoreI think many people spend a lot of time thinking about ideas. I spend far too much time thinking about thinking about ideas...
Read MoreThese extremes of activity online - curating a facebook profile to promote the ‘ideal’ you or disabling it because it can’t - accentuate the dynamic of vanity verus voyeurism on the social web. In plain terms, will it be a place for you to show off or creep around?
Read MoreI’ve read a ton of posts over the past month about identity and how online experience influences identity. Some of my favorites are: Everybody Wants To Be Special Here and Identity Online. Maybe I’m just delayed in my thought process around identity or maybe it took me re-reading a favorite section of Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men to begin to represent online identity in my head.
Read MoreI know this is a soft subject for many and I’m not coming at it from the angle of the ‘dark side’ business person hell-bent on the success of the bottom line. I’m approaching this as an entrepreneur who’s concern is the continuity of the eco-system from which innovation is born and thrives...
Read MoreOutside of the recent tech surge in New York, California, and a few other states, innovative industries are few and far between in the U.S. Our universities tend to funnel our best and brightest towards traditional careers, in the John Adams’ sense of traditional, where age-old concepts and rules are laid out before you to be learned and interpreted, but never broken or changed...
Read MoreMy first panel at the Fashion 140 Conference at Lincoln Center on May 4th. I spoke along with Iced Media’s Leslie Hall, KMart’s Robin Creen, Diesel’s Rebecca Goodman, and Twitter’s Hong Sun about Return on Investment in Social Media.
Read MoreIn 2008, Eli Bronner and I launched Birthright Earth as a vehicle to take the green buzz and the young people buzzing about it a few actionable steps further. By sending 18-26 year olds on 10-day trips to the Amazon rain forest for free, the organization seeks to create future generations of hands-on advocates. See It to Save It is the slogan and Direct Exposure is the founding principle...
Read MoreIt's not yet clear how far we are from a Minority Report level of instant, internal access to everything on our desktops and in our pockets. But I for one am dreaming of more consolidation of my various multimedia and online services...
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