There are elements of any culture that are “on the edge.” These are things we’re redefining in order to evolve. In our culture, we’re in the middle of a couple of centuries of transformation around gender and race. We’re creating a new cultural matrix for these concepts–even perhaps letting go […]
Published July 5, 2013 For founders just starting out, there’s little to crow about. You’ve got few users and a small – or barely existent – revenue stream. You’re considered lucky if your office space is located outside your bedroom. Read more…
Published June 7, 2013 These days, you can start a company sitting in your pajamas with a laptop. Buoyed by cutting edge technology, the wisdom of crowds, and cloud computing, there are more startups than ever before. Read more…
Almost every other path is easier to embark on than the path of your best destiny—and yet your destiny will be the devil of every other path you take, until you choose IT. For me, by the way, running Write2Market is definitely work, and many days, I’m really honestly tired […]
secrets to telling bigger stories in the next decade Process is both the bane and the balm of publicity. In a geometrically expanding world of shared content, what does it take for your take to stand out? If you do it right in my PR agency world, you get a […]
by Lisa Calhoun CEOs are called on to lead the conversation for their companies, not only internally and culturally, but also externally through public relations and investor relations. Along with almost everything else about being a leader at a growing company, the work of a CEO has to change significantly […]
A friend with Paladin just forwarded me a fun story on tech public relations.I really liked it, and could relate to the writer Marco Greenberg not just because I worked with another member of the founding team at Akamai (Robert Ball), but also because Marco used a metaphor I find […]
Can computers replace writers? It’s a curious question, and I’ve been looking at its various permutations for about ten years now. With companies like Narrative Science, ICON, and Automated Insights, things are finally getting interesting. (Check out AI’s CEO Robbie Allen on video.) Years ago, I talked to my favorite […]
Last Friday afternoon, it was time to play. I went to the right place—I toured Atlanta Tech Village. I met Jeremy Wing of Payscape Advisors who, like me, was curious to tour Atlanta’s new technology community capital city. Some friends from Entrepreneur’s Organization dropped by on their way for a […]
You can only own the world you yourself have crafted. Everything else is squatting. So maybe we agree—you’re damn creative. Maybe even creative enough to create your own “country.” So if you did, what would that look like? What’s Country You? Is it tidy, neat, sprung like Athena, fully formed […]