May 9th 2008
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OK. I'm starting to wonder if an ex-staffer or advisor from my Startup 1.0 has landed at Yahoo! First, they announce a product called Searchmonkey. Sounds a little like Greasemonkey, and intentionally so. Searchmonkey is supposed to give site owners more control over how their search listings appear on Yahoo!, ...
March 19th 2008
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I had the most unexpected flashback in the midst of writing yesterday's post. I was just typing the part about eroding audience at TV networks when I started to type "superbowl.com." Here's the story.
A client and good friend from NationsBank traveled with me from Atlanta to New York City to ...
March 7th 2008
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So I'm cheating a bit and writing this Friday's post on Saturday. Good thing, because a great little firestorm erupted over at TechCrunch that offers a great backdrop to my blog entry today. (It even has a nice photo of a capsizing ship to segue from yesterday's TwiceFunded post...)
Basically, the ...
March 6th 2008
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So talk about pie is all well and good. But what about all that time things are baking in the oven?Without a doubt, my biggest challenge when running companies has been finding that magical balance between collaboration and leadership. I come from a family of educators, so I've grown-up with the notion ...
March 5th 2008
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Yesterday, I alluded to big pieces of small pies vs. small pieces of big pies. I can definitely say in hindsight that I was focused on keeping a "big piece" of the Startup 1.0 pie that I was baking. (I had 90% of IPI to B of A's 10% at ...
March 4th 2008
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So the 15-year anniversary of my first startup has inspired me to distill some lessons I learned from being CEO through all its ups and downs. Let's set the next few blog posts here in context with a very condensed history of IPI.I started in 1993 with Scientific-Atlanta as my main client. I ...
March 3rd 2008
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Today has been a great day for me to reminisce a bit. My first startup, Interactive Planet, Inc. (IPI), officially formed 15 years ago on March 3, 1993. I chose the name as a wee lad working with a very gifted and creative associate. We fancied the notion that multimedia technology would ...