What is a startup? That is a question posed and partially answered in many places (see quotes below). For my money, startups can be defined by what they do NOT do: Get Distracted. We stopped running display media even though…
I’m still amazed at how many businesspeople are not yet effectively using Twitter. Here are a few ideas about how to use Twitter as a really effective tool to move forward in your career: Follow people that matter to you…
Never trust an ad network. Or really, never let someone you don’t completely trust have an open door to put JavaScript on your website. That seems to be the message if you look at what’s been going on with websites…
[The first in a series of brain dumps. This one is mostly just starting context.] We sold Optimal in October 2013 for $35 million, half in cash and half in stock. It was the first half of 2008 when we…
I’m running the Vancouver Marathon in British Columbia on May 4th, 2014 and in training for it, raising money for Against Malaria. Every week I’m donating a number of dollars based on the miles I ran that week – the…