The past 28 months have been the most stressful and exhilarating period of my professional and personal life. In that time, we sold Enguage to Publicis Group, I embarked on an Executive MBA (at Georgia State University), while also merging Engauge and Moxie, and then became the CEO of BLiNQ Media (formally part of Gannett Ventures),... Continue Reading →
Pave – Investing in an indivdual rather than a start-up
My friend and old business partner, Jeff Hilimire, recently sent me an article about Pave, the crowdfunding platform for investing in people. Pave's approach differs from crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter that focus on the idea or product where you fund the startup and get ownership of the product or similar. Alternatively, Pave allows you to... Continue Reading →
Start-up stages based on number of employees
I had a fun meeting with three guys from a start-up I'm looking at investing in; it made me re-live my own start-up days and I realized I'm envious of their road ahead. One of the guys asked me how to establish a culture in a start-up. My answer was, "it depends on the size... Continue Reading →
“Snooze Alarm” Email Tactic
Amy Griswold and I just attended the sixth annual SilverPOP conference at Stone Mountain last week (05/13/2008). Like most vendor-customer conferences, I’m often somewhat skeptical about what I’m going to learn about email marketing in general. Most of the time, I attend these conferences to better understand new features that are being released, and to... Continue Reading →