Tag Archives: business
Mention in Nashville Post about Startup Weekend
I was interviewed yesterday by Erin Lawley at the Nashville Post as part of an article on Nashville Startup Weekend, and that article came out today: Kate O’Neill did not launch a business based on last year’s Nashville Startup Weekend, but she said participating in the event helped give her the confidence to become an [...]
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Email Address History, No Service?
An article in today’s InternetRetailer.com daily news called “Why retailers can probably trust consumers with lots of Facebook friends” caught my eye: Accertify announced today a deal to incorporate into its fraud-screening process data from Rapleaf, a company that has indexed over 600 million e-mail addresses, and tracks such information as how many social network [...]
Spending the Weekend at Social South (aka #SoSo)
We here at [meta]marketer are advocates of recognizing any potentially meaningful tools that may exist in the marketer’s toolbox. But tools, whether a hammer or a broadcast email, have unique characteristics, and so we regard each tool with the following observations: You should measure carefully when using any tool. Each tool is not relevant to [...]
Why Startups Succeed, Why Startups Fail
I was meeting with someone recently who asked if I have any advice about what causes startups to succeed or fail. At first blush, it’s a funny question to ask someone who’s starting up a company; I mean, I should really be the one seeking advice. On the other hand, I have been involved in [...]
Why the Agency Utilization Model is Flawed
Since starting [meta]marketer, I’ve been naturally having a lot of conversations with people about why I’ve chosen to work with freelancers instead of building what people inevitably call “a real agency.” Most people guess it’s to reduce overhead. That’s a good guess, but it isn’t the real reason. The real reason is a nasty little [...]