Principles What Margin Call teaches us about leadership There's a point in every founder's career where they choose to remain an entrepreneur, or become a CEO.
Principles Remembering 9/11, In Memoriam Like most my memory of 9/11 is as vivid as if it happened yesterday. Remembering those we lost on September 11, 2001. We will never forget.
Business How Ransomware Will Impact the Ag Industry The Ag industry is now a ransomware target, along with America's critical infrastructure.
Business Here's why Chris Sacca will keep winning Which business is Chris Sacca really in? While many VCs are in the money management business, Sacca was off hiring a CAA agent.
Business A tiny year of business travel, 2019 in review Revisiting pre-COVID business travel as we look ahead to the global economy reopening. Will it ever be as much fun again?
Marketing A model for explaining product marketing time-to-value In this post I will introduce a simple model marketers can use to explain the delta between their marketing activity and the time-to-value.
Year With No Beer A Year With No Beer, Redux 3 #YWNB Over the past decade, I stopped drinking alcohol periodically. One year. Two years. Join me in 2021 as I do another Year With No Beer.
Business Drive to Survive: The Return of Formula One In its third action-packed season, Netflix' series Formula 1: Drive to Survive is the most captivating insight inside the world of Formula One ever produced.
Marketing Brand building and the illusion of control For all the effort marketers put into building brands, the funny thing is we don’t control how you feel. A brand is only as good as a customers’ last experience.
Technology How to commercialize open source If software is eating the world, open source is eating software. OSS projects have more opportunity than ever before.
Principles A day in the life: 2020 and the great reset It's Saturday morning. 10am and I'm on my third coffee. 2020 is a reset year, if you haven't worked that out. Let's reset.
Marketing Principle-first vs process-driven marketing A new way to understand the type of marketer you're about to hire, and how you can predict their performance in advance.
Marketing Customers aren't inside your building The only way to understand humans, is to spend time with humans. Why do marketers work within the confines of four walls?
Technology Solving the last mile, just not with scooters Scooters are the craze du jour, littering the streets of our cities. Why then are VCs pumping hundreds of millions into scooter apps?
Tunes Trying to leave something behind Blame an average movie about an accountant assassin for my discovery of Sean Rowe, but that's how it went down.
Business Competing with last best experiences How United blew their one shot at capturing a high value customer from Delta. One shot to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
Technology Tiny #1 in G2 Crowd Summer Grid Report Very proud of the marketing team at Tiny. TinyMCE remains the #1 WYSIWYG editor in G2's Summer Grid Report.
Marketing Product teardowns are quick-win content marketing Content marketing is overdone. To death. Here's the approach I'm taking at Tiny to create relevant, interesting content.
Technology Another TinyMCE update v5.0.5, improves i18n Here's a very brief post I wrote about the latest update to TinyMCE, including internationalization (i18n) improvements.
Marketing A great product meets a great brand Very proud of the marketing team at Tiny, where we are #1 in G2 Crowd's 2019 Spring Grid Report for WYSIWYG editors.
Creativity What is high school for? Probably not what is required! In 2011, Seth Godin asked, What’s high school for? It was a prescient challenge to the status quo, that nearly 8 years later is more relevant than ever.
Tunes Listening to Cataplexy by Paul Mac A long-time Paul Mac fan, from back in the Itch-E and Scratch-E days, it's always a joy to hear new tunes from one of Australia's electronica pioneers.
Marketing Featured Introducing Marketing, Minified (for teams of one) Welcome to Marketing, Minified. Best practices to help you build a scalable, process-driven marketing function that runs by itself.
Marketing A go-to-market worksheet for product marketers Before you start marketing anything, your product team needs to answer these questions. If they can't, you're dead in the water.
Marketing Do marketing teams of one really exist? Superhero marketers not required. Here are 5 things a solo marketer can do to deliver like a marketing team 10 times the size.
