Ideas

As I type this, realizing that the spring semester is just about over, I am once again reminded how fast time flies. As mentioned here a couple of months ago, I have been on the journey of teaching entrepreneurial marketing (ENTR 320) at UMBC this semester. What an amazing, challenging and very rewarding experience it [...]

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As many folks know, email has been a bit of a sweet spot for me over the past decade. I’ve always been focused on the marketing side of the medium, and less on the productivity / distraction side. That said, I wanted to take a moment and write about a whole new generation of email [...]

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One of the themes you may pick up on with my angel series is “Ultra Light Startups.” As in Graham Lawlor’s community in NYC and Boston. I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at several Ultra Light events as both a panelist and a judge. It also turns out that I’ve invested in a few startups [...]

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Occasionally, you come across a statement that resonates with you and summarizes something perfectly. Ben Yoskovitz, VP Product at GoInstant and Founding Partner of Year One Labs in Montreal recently announced he was moving to Halifax to join the team at GoInstant. I’ve been a regular reader of Ben’s blog for quite a while now [...]

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Part of my reboot here on the blog is incorporating some new types of content and other perspective  into the mix. One of the topics I have been very interested in lately has been workspace design thinking, especially given the work we have been doing with the upcoming launch of Betamore. One thing is clear, the workplace is changing [...]

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