August 2009
6 posts
Does Your Startup Have The Right DNA?
I ask myself this question every single day. The answer varies. Obviously. ;) mikehudack: continuations: In 1997 I started a company with two professors from MIT in the emerging Internet healthcare field.  We made a lot of mistakes, but probably the biggest mistake was made at inception.  We did not have the right DNA in the company for what we were trying to accomplish.  The two professors...
Aug 31st
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Aug 12th
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WatchWatch
All-star spoof shows tender side of G.I. Joe This is pretty amazing on so many levels - via Adweek’s blog AdFreak This might be the first Web video that stars bigger-name actors than the big-screen blockbuster it’s spoofing. “The Ballad of G.I. Joe,” a Funny or Die exclusive, shows us the softer side of the action flick’s heroes and villains. The cast features...
Aug 12th
The Power of Twitter In Case of Emergency
Apparently a DDoS attack took down the social web this morning while I was running around trying to check out a new apartment. My business partner Mike Cardosa tweeted this an hour ago @doza I got caught in an infinite loop earlier. Twitter was down & I wanted to send a tweet to tell people. #iFail CNN is running a front page story on it and it shows how we all get used to what some...
Aug 6th
ESPN Charged with Roughing the Reporter
The blog/twit(osphere) is still abuzz with questions, comments and criticisms of ESPN’s new guideline for social media engagement. While it is important that organizations create a code of conduct for online engagement, I think the newly published ESPN rules of engagement are heavy handed. My former colleague Todd states that these rules are about exercising ‘some editorial control...
Aug 6th
Aug 6th