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A lot of folks are providing top ten lists for the year and even the decade. I am skipping those on my blog and ending off the year a simple statement; start today. You don’t need a resolution, a mission statement, or the perfect set of people to accomplish what you want to do. You [...]

Last year I co-hosted a party with a group of friends to avoid the lines, costs, drama, and overall hassle of celebrating new years eve when everyone else does. We call it New Years Eve Eve in NYC and we are doing it again. By taking matters into our own hands and time shifting the [...]

2009 is about to come to an end and I thought I would give a quick marketing.fm wrap up post showing the top 10 posts of 2009 according to views. Below are the 10 most popular posts by a number of factors such as views, comments, ping backs and just overall traffic. 10. Change the [...]

This post is definitely a joke, but it hit such a chord with my friends I thought I would open up the dialogue here – what to eat at the business breakfast?. To be honest, I have never given this much thought. To my surprise a group of friends I was recently with had this [...]

This is a guest post from my friend David Schaffer It’s a familiar mantra of job hunters: it’s not what you know, but who you know. So often, searching for a new job involves contacting everyone you know in your field, alerting them to your interest in a new position, and arranging to meet over [...]

I got into an interesting 100,000 ft level conversation recently that got me thinking about the companies and people I try to meet with on a regular basis. Instead of using the normal categorizations, genres, descriptions, or wordy answers I normalized everything as disruptive. It might be overused at this point but it boils everything [...]

Yesterday a group of folks from the NY tech community called Techies Give Back got together with Camp Interactive for a day of skating and fun at Chelsea Piers. Tickets were sold to benefit the kids, but the day was also a success due to a promotion between Pepsi and Foursquare using social check ins [...]

I had the unfortunate experience last Wednesday of out of the office but with a laptop and a tethered blackberry and limited connectivity. Super slow, choppy, not-always-on connectivity. I wanted to post about this for a few reasons: 1. It is good to get outside of your bubble once in awhile – mine is of [...]

Last night I attended the Boxee beta launch party event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. I have been using Boxee for some time since it became a portfolio company of Union Square Ventures and written about it a few times on this blog. The last Boxee event back in March was a [...]

This is one I have heard at the BOD level a few times; putting the wood behind one arrow. Here is a favorite example of putting all the wood behind one arrow from the Sun CEO back in 2007. It basically boils down to concentrating on one area and focus. It provides a worldview that [...]