It really DOES change everything. Especially if you wish you didn’t have to lug around a bigger PC to do e-mail, make presentations, and surf the web – – which is what most of us use our laptops for. You can already find plenty of video content at the Apple web site going over the… Read more
This is the third in a three part series that are excerpts from my talk “Managing and Running a Startup”. They work along with the CEO Roadmap that I covered in an earlier blog. The number one dilemma for a startup CEO is maintaining perspective – – taking a step back from the business and… Read more
Thinking about taking a CEO position in an early stage or startup company ? Then answer these 7 questions for yourself to avoid making the wrong decision. The video tutorial walks through the questions. Scroll down for the list and some thoughts. The crucial thing here is clarity. Vague answers don’t count… Read more
It Ain’t As Easy as it Looks – – the title of one of my favorite books by Ted Turner, and a great summary of being the CEO of a startup or early stage company. I remember my first CEO gig fresh out of business school. I thought “pretty simple, get the product out… Read more
NBC thinks they have an audience appeal problem that are making it hard for Conan to get good ratings. Jeff Zucker and Dick Ebersol have it wrong. They have failed to exploit their own medium – Hulu TV – for building Conan’s audience reach and moving away from the declining medium of broadcast and cable television.
It’s true. The first “tweets” were send in the 1920’s and 30’s by radio operators desperate to reach an audience with the least possible number of characters ! That’s right, Twitter is the internet version of a very old idea. Twitter’s success highlights the idea that one of the the real values of Twitter is… Read more
Here we are at one of those rare perfect storms that will be a major turning point for periodicals and newspapers. Everything changes in the next 12 months – five times faster than it took the music industry to come to grips with the iTunes model and a new world order. Events are lining up… Read more
