Ryan Allis is the 23-year-old founder of iContact.com, the web’s second biggest marketing website. Ryan spoke in this podcast about how he ended up where he is and the role passion plays in business. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast, “Passion Play.”
I just ran across an article by Mark Cuban about CEO pay and how stock and options have distorted it beyond all recognition. I go a step further and suggest … well, read for yourself.
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What a great idea! Twitter is a little one-to-many text messaging tool. I can send out a text message to Twitter, and everyone who has elected to “follow” me gets the message. The intent of Twitter is that you send out a message answering the question, “what are you doing right now?”
Initially, it was fun. [...]
I upgraded to a LinkedIn premium membership last year when I wanted to use it to make a couple of introductions. It was interesting, but hasn’t become a staple of my networking strategy. After paying $240 over a year, it seemed prudent to downgrade back to a free account.
Unfortunately, LinkedIn provides several automated ways to [...]
A friend pointed me to this simple graphic in the Washington Post that explains the whole subprime mortgage mess. The only missing piece is that Joe the Hedge Fund manager and Bob the Banker both took home hundred-million-dollar salaries and bonuses before the house of cards collapsed. And even though their businesses may have tanked, [...]
This podcast is an interview with Alec Hudnut, CEO of Evolution Robotics, discussing how to get your CEO’s attention.
It’s amazing. I always found it odd when applying for a mortgage that banks considered income, but not asset base. If I have a bunch of money and invest in an investment that’s growing in value by 33% per year but not throwing off income, they won’t consider that in deciding to grant a mortgage. [...]
Check out http://www.TheStoryOfStuff.com. It’s a bit heavy-handed in places, but if you watch it with an open mind, she makes some really good points about consumer culture. The planned obsolescence bit, while obvious, was something I’d never really thought about in terms of the global “material economy.”
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In a wondrous attempt to increase security, more and more vendors are now requiring me to choose passwords of many characters with mixed case, numbers and punctuation. My bank does one better, where I have five different question/answer combinations they ask, then once I’ve passed their quiz, they display an image that I’m supposed [...]
I just had a post go up on the Huffington Post’s 236.com humor blog. Check out my satirical article on a local business defining its roles and responsibilities.
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