One of the members of LulzSec reported to be an FBI mole
So much for not selling out your gang. It looks like Sabu one of the folks who has been speaking for LulzSec has been secretly working for the FBI according to multiple online reports. Lulzsec has been one of the leading hacking groups and has seriously gone after a ton of people, companies, and others […]
Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, Zynga and others. I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. One thing that I’ve realized over the years […]
Candid Interview with Brian Solis, Author of Engage
I had the opportunity to speak with and interview Brian Solis (who I’m sure many of you know) about his new book, Engage (Brian also wrote the forward for my book, Twittfaced). I didn’t want to ask the same boring questions that everyone else usually asks, so instead I decided to ask Brian some “serious” […]
This is where I get to disagree with Louis Gray about leadership
It is not often that I get to disagree with Louis Gray, who is one of the best people to know for any reason. So it is surprising when he writes an article and misses bits and pieces of what makes some companies succeed brilliantly, while other companies settle, settle for anything with a prayer […]
Follow up and close out of the Month of Startup Hades
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Things are finally starting to return to normal, we had a bumper crop of sales over the last week, and got our internal problems solved. What is interesting is that rather than “go be your creative best” the leadership style had to change over to completely authoritative, here is […]
Day Two of Startup Hades
Looking for inspiration by reading Marcello’s and Andy’s blogs today. If you do not know, Marcello owned Sampa, and Andy Sack owned Judy’s book. Sampa closed on August 15th, and Judy’s book closed over a year ago, but both are prolific bloggers and have also documented their experiences. Where I am at right now is […]
A Month of Fail – Lessons in Startup Management
Image by lumaxart via Flickr Ever had one of those exceptional months were you have not only caught the fail boat, but threw a fail boat party and no one else showed up? This is the world of failure, deep hard core failure that you have to step back from many of the things you […]
