I just tallied the number of times I received SPAM over the last 24 hours. Are you ready? Twenty times. Mostly e-mails, with a few voice mails thrown in for good measure. Heck, before you know it I’ll start getting pharmaceutical solicitations by e-mail as well. Whoops – too late. If you’re ever tempted to [...]

Entrepreneurs are often obsessed with finding someone to fund their company. “We need to scale,” they say. “And we can’t do it without capital.” Actually, you can. And you should – at least initially. I agree that access to capital has certain advantages. You can hire more salespeople, open more stores, and buy more advertising [...]

CAA is one of the top talent agencies in Hollywood. No. 17 is one of the top design firms in New York City. Exhibit 1: CAA’s website. Exhibit 2: No. 17’s website. Yep, that’s all they have…a single page. Just a thought: if we decided to focus more on our business than our marketing “collateral,” [...]

…is that you quickly get to the bottom of an industry/company/personal problem.

Comments on “Will We Miss You” centered around a single concern: are the good old days gone forever? No! It’s difficult to accept, but the fact is that no industry is immune to change – and sooner or later they fade away altogether.  Just because you were fortunate enough to make money one way yesterday [...]

If anyone pokes fun at my father-in-law, there is a 99% chance he’ll deliver this line. It usually goes like this: Them: [insert wisecrack here]. Him: Sure, sure, very funny. You know, you’ll miss me when I’m gone. Them: Where are you going? Him: I don’t know, but I’m on my way. Oddly enough, a [...]

Better stated, now I have a posting schedule. I’m sorry that I’ve been away for so long. A lot of regular readers reached out during the hiatus, which was both surprising and flattering. It’s nice to be missed. Going forward, I won’t keep you guessing about the timing of my next post. Once a week [...]