[Originally posted on Medium] In being part of a team that’s building a company there will always be a long list of opportunities and tasks. That you should pick the most important ones and focus is obvious. A harder state to obtain is to not let the things you aren’t focusing on bother you. Saying a process, particular marketing material, [...]
On CNBC to discuss the Facebook IPO one week later.
[ Just watched Jack’s interview with Charlie Rose. And it seemed to be perfect companion to my thoughts at the end of this past week about just how much business progress can be made in a remarkably short period of time. Storified by Jon Steinberg · Sat, Apr 28 2012 20:04:48 Charlie Rose – Jack Dorsey (04/25/12) Square original dongle@jonsteinberg [...]
My daughter carries a Hello Kitty stuffed animal everywhere she goes. One day we were heading to lunch and I asked her, “What’s Hello Kitty going to have for lunch?” To which my 3 year old daughter responded, “Daddy, Hello Kitty doesn’t have a mouth. She can’t eat.” This is kind of sad for Hello Kitty but as far as [...]
Jill and I took the kids I Disney World this past weekend. I proudly began my career as a Disney Imagineer intern, so the parks hold a very special place for me. Walt was also my entrepreneurial hero long before any other, and I think shaped my view that great entrepreneurs were creatives and the power of ideas. They’re building [...]
[A slightly edited version of this post appeared in Ad Age] Aspiration in advertising is about great creative that stands on its own, and has all the best qualities of editorial content – a voice, a point of view, and a larger purpose. It’s work that is worth sharing. This philosophy has stuck with me and defined the key elements [...]
Leasing commercial office space in Manhattan has a set of complexities and unique elements that I’ve yet to find in a short blog post. A few of these elements are unique to startups, but on the whole, it’s pretty much the same for everyone. Space in commercial office buildings is leased on a dollars per square foot per year basis. [...]
Expensive clothing is just a bad deal. Inevitably the clothing gets stained, shrunk, or lost before it’s high-quality extended use-life. With that said, stylish and expensive are not one in the same. I’ve recently discovered Uniqlo and Joe Fresh. Both of these chain clothing store just opened up all across Manhattan ,offering cheap and stylish clothing. I bought $9.90 jeans [...]
When I was on Wall Street, we paid for access to a database called “Big Dough” that listed hedge fund managers, their sectors, and stock holdings. Equity salespeople used this database to identify prospects for research subscriptions and services. Today at BuzzFeed, we subscribe to Ad Data Express, which provides roughly the same data on agency and brand planners. (There [...]
If you sell digital advertising, you need to join SellerCrowd immediately. It’s a community that lets digital ad sellers communicate about RFPs, brand contacts, agency contacts, etc. It operates right now as a simple Q&A platform, but I imagine they’ll be rolling out reputation and answer scoring at some point. I’ve been reading about the verticalization of professional communities, and SellerCrowd [...]
