Silicon Valley Has A Short Attention Span
Sometimes people ask me why I’m always writing blog posts and speaking at events. “Simple,” I say. “Silicon Valley has a short attention span. If I don’t keep my name in front of people, they’ll forget who I am.” If they don’t believe me, I respond with what I like to call the Yahoo test. [...]
The Farther You Go, The Tougher It Gets
Something many entrepreneurs don’t realize is that the farther you go with your startup, the tougher it gets.When you start with an idea, it’s easy to be excited. Since it only exists in your head, it morphs every day, possibly even with every convers…
Teachable Moments in PR & Crisis Management
I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management” at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate” story. I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular. What are the teachable moments? The short article in Fast Company [...]
Mark Zuckerberg no longer a social norm
A few days ago Mark Zuckerberg was offered another podium at San Fransisco’s Crunchies, where he dared to state that privacy was no longer a social norm: “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people,” he said. “That social norm is just something [...]
The Social Network: “Good Artists Borrow. Great Artists Steal.”
The other day I saw the Facebook film about Mark Zuckerberg “The Social Network” based on Ben Mezrich‘s 2009 nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires. Fact or fiction, the film paints a very human portrait of seemingly insensitive Mark Zuckerberg. The film could have easily had a different name such as “Good Artists Borrow. Great Artists [...]
