Blog Posts
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To grow your knowledge and skills requires a plan, one designed to make you increasingly more valuable in the marketplace. You have to find ways to (continue to) develop the knowledge and skills that your clients and contacts value. In essence, we all need a personal strategic plan for our careers; Lesson One: What you know…
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Neil Morgan is a colleague of mine who is working with our friend Ken Kragen, the manager of many superstars and conceiver and organizer of projects such as “We Are the World”, “NetAid”, “Hands Across America” and parts of “LiveAid”, on a spectacular new project called “Hands Around Our World”. Neil reminded me of the…
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Everyone knows the smiley face: the egg-yolk circle, the black oblong eyes, the curved grin. It has pervaded pop culture since the 1960s, when hippies stickered it onto VW buses and screened it onto tie-dyed T-shirts. It guest-starred in the 1994 movie “Forrest Gump,” when the titular character “invented” the sunny symbol. Generation-Xers will recall…
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There’s almost always an element of “fake it ’till you make it” for a successful, disruptive startup. Some companies just push their luck a little too far. There are lessons here for anyone raising money from investors. 1. Theranos Raised $1.1 billion Theranos claimed to have developed a proprietary blood testing technology, the problem was…
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Facebook is in the process of finalizing plans to launch its crypto in 2020. The social media giant will roll out the digital currency in around a dozen countries by the first quarter of next year, with the company planning to begin testing for the crypto, internally dubbed GlobalCoin, by the end of this year. …