Posted in Business, INC Magazine articles, marketing, twitter on Jul 11th, 2008
Start Up: A Twitter Success Story (How to Use Twitter as a Marketing Strategy)
Chances are, if you’re not an early adopter type, you may not have heard of Twitter, the online community that is a kind of instant-messaging social network. Users send updates of up to 140 character (about 2 sentences) out to their followers–people [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship on Jun 27th, 2008
Yesterday, I saw the almost-finished construction of OfficeSpaces.nl, a very cool concept in shared office space, leased space for small entrepreneurial companies, and a common area that will be the first lounge for the E.Factor network members.
Martijn Roordink took Bill Sobel, Roeland Reinders, and me around on a tour of the
beautiful new space,which [...]
Posted in Business, Uncategorized, blogging, mobility on Jun 25th, 2008
I’m currently sitting in the public lounge of CitizenM, which is a concept hotel for the mobile traveler. M is for Mobile, in this case. I’ve taken pictures, which you can see on Flickr, and will continue to blog and twitter about this. As we only arrived this morning, I haven’t had the chance to [...]
Posted in Business, blogging, marketing, supernova2008 on Jun 12th, 2008
Though Cable TV has been around since the late 40s as a way to help programming get to places where broadcast signals don’t reach, it was in the early 80s that the popularity of Cable took off. The launch of ESPN in 1979, and Superstation TBS in the mid 70s that gave people a choice [...]
Posted in Business, Legal, NYSIA, business development, meetings, social media, socialmedia on May 29th, 2008
NYSIA Legal Forum Summary – Live Blogging
Guest: Mark Grossman - Attorney and “TechLaw” Columnist
The industry should be embarrased - contracts are horrible, not so much one-sided as incompetently drawn, fail to address basic questions. VERY often, the contract delivered is not the deal the parties wanted to do. Most business litigation is honest business [...]
I always suspected text message pricing was a ripoff. But this scientist proved it.
Space scientist says texting is four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space
The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and [...]
Merlin Mann throws down a serious challenge in today’s 43 folders. It’s a great business lesson, and one I’m going to think about for every email I send today, and hopefully, I can keep it up in the future.
Email Insanity & the 0.001 Challenge | 43 Folders
The 0.001 Challenge
Imagine that the person receiving the email [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship, angel investing on Apr 10th, 2008
David Rose from NY Angels and Angelsoft spoke tonight at the 92nd Street Y’s Tribeca location on Hudson Street on Angel investing. About 225 people in attendance.
Key ideas: 600K companies start every year. Only 50k are funded by angels. Rest are funded by the founders, or by friends/family.
VC: Professional investors.
Angels: Rich-ish people investing own money [...]
Posted in Business, NextNY, facebook, fun, howardgr, social media, social networks, socialmedia on Apr 7th, 2008
Seems I’m endorsing Union Square Ventures on Facebook**. Tip of the hat to Michael Pinto, who was served this wonderful ad.
Fred, Brad, call me. Let’s do lunch. Who knows how big this can get…
(**Of course I knew this could happen when I became a “fan.” That’s why I’m only fans of products I [...]
Posted in Business, Entreprenurship, NextNY, howardgr, marketing, social media, socialmedia on Apr 3rd, 2008
Today I released the first monthly newsletter for the Harbrooke Group. If you want to subscribe and haven’t received an opt-in email (of course we did an opt-in, that’s permission marketing in action) please sign up on the newsletter tab above.
Why a newsletter? I have many friends who are all over Twitter, Facebook, and other [...]
