I am working long hours, building a new company this summer and committing myself to startup life. While others are taking off early, going swimming and golfing and traveling, I'm sitting in my office, planning for the future, hiring great leaders and making sure we...
"WAIT!" I exclaimed to the young lady I had just met 30 minutes prior. "You have a 21-year old son! And you're 32 years old! Please explain!" Last year, I had the pleasure of meeting a fellow LinkedIn Influencer and author, Claire Diaz-Ortiz. @Claire, the 32-year...
Soon, you'll be relaxing on a beach, cocktail in one hand, book in another hand. It's summer vacation time! But those emails just don't stop coming in. Email communication is a blessing and a curse. It's always-on, which gives you the opportunity to be productive anywhere...
Happiness isn't easily attained. As I've written about before here on LinkedIn, it does not happen overnight. Happiness is a state you need to actively work on in order to maintain. In the past year, I've realized how happy I become when practicing gratitude. Since then,...
A drink in my hand, my snow up against the burning sand,Prob'ly getting gorgeously tanned in summer. I'll finally see a summer breeze, blow away a winter storm. And find out what happens to solid water when it gets warm!And I can't wait to see,...
"Yes, you did catch me at a bad time," I answered to the cold-caller who somehow found me in Paris on vacation on my cell phone yesterday. Sales and customer service have changed! We’re fed up with unwanted phone calls interrupting us at home and at work....
"Why can't we keep growing like we had been so well?" I asked this of my wife and Chief Operating Officer about Likeable Media in June of 2010 when we hit our first real plateau after three years of phenomenal growth. Come to think of it, I've...
Today, we announced the completion of a $1.5 million seed round in our software startup Likeable Local. For me, this is significant because it helps to validate what I've believed for years: Given the right tools, small businesses can absolutely use social media to manage...
Exhausted, embarrassed, desperate. That's how I felt, down 6-0, 1-0 last night, at my first league tennis match of the season. I had taken a break from playing tennis over most of the Summer, I had moved up to a more competitive league for the Fall,...
In the third chapter of his new book, Smartcuts, author Shane Snow discusses the use of “The F Word” in business. No, it’s not that F word. The word he’s talking about is “failure.” Starting anything, especially a business, is risky. Nobody ever succeeded without risking...