My friend Michael Fertik has launched a nifty web service called ReputationDefender and it’s received a fair amount of coverage in the last week across the blogosphere (see here, here, and here).  Ostensibly, ReputationDefender is addressing the fear factor of personal (or familial) PR on the web.  For a monthly fee (ranging from $9.95/month for a […]

mouse calling, originally uploaded by Casperonline
I’ve been fretting a lot lately about using the trackpad on my laptop.  It’s a complete productivity drain, but I haven’t yet buckled down and purchased a decent mini-mouse on Amazon.  So it struck me in the middle of a board meeting this past Thursday, influenced […]

I often hear the following refrain from an Internet services executive: “People are willing to share a LOT of information when they register at our site.”  There are caveats of course - ease of sign-up, for instance, can accelerate a company’s growth trajectory (see Ed Sim’s thoughtful words here) - but many companies use the registration process […]

corporate ladder, originally uploaded by nardell 
This coming Monday I’m speaking over lunch with a number of interns at Todd Investment Advisors, a firm that manages $3.9 billion in assets, exists as a wholly owned sub of Fort Washington, and happens to be in the same building as Chrysalis.  It’s a favor, […]

TED 2006: Burt Rutan, originally uploaded by curiouslee.
Burt Rutan, winner of the first Ansari X-PRIZE in 2004 ($10 million for first privately funded org to launch a manned spacecraft into space twice over two weeks), spoke at the IdeaFestival in Louisville on Saturday night. I’m blogging about it because, while […]

DODO (Raphus cucullatus), originally uploaded by happy via.
After fielding a couple questions from interested parties on my prior post, The Consumer’s Media Primer, I wanted to follow up on a particular point.  In that post, I wrote:

Still, there are challenges to the digital ad model. Today, there’s a big ad rate […]

Quick service health clinics have recently been making headlines and they’re worth a hard look if you’re interested in healthcare (hint: if you’re interested in self-preservation, you should be interested in healthcare because the economics of the system aren’t always in your body’s best interest).
The concept addresses a resource allocation inefficiency: […]

Andy Sack, CEO of Judy’s Book, has begun discussing his company’s strategic development process in a series of posts worth reading for any entrepreneur, most especially those addressing “local.” He describes a management meeting in which the group asked itself:

What are the hardest problems in our current business approach - […]

I’m in the middle of reading Bill Taylor and Polly LaBarre’s new book, Mavericks at Work, and it’s definitely resonating with me. They write in Chapter One, “The logic of competition has evolved from the imitative world of products versus products to the revolutionary fervor of business models versus business […]

In looking back at some of my working notes from earlier this year, I thought the following worthy of a post. In particular, it seems coverage of a topic too often leaves out a framework, and a framework is often the key to understanding and then breaking down an issue. […]