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LINCHPIN

11.09.2010

I finished Seth Godin’s book LINCHPIN yesterday on a flight back to Miami from NYC. Without taking away from Seth’s premise, LINCHPIN extolls the merits of the creation of art as a core element of your life’s pursuit. Art, doesn’t mean sculpting, painting, while that is by virtue “art”(or can be), but as it pertains [...]

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… Ironman picks itself back up

11.03.2010

My post last week about recent issues with World Triathlon Corporation was written before last Saturday’s Ironman 70.3 Miami. I didn’t race in that event for a couple of reasons. First, I was previously committed to Ironman Florida. Second, I had done a couple of races put on by Paramount Productions, the race director/production/promotion company. [...]

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Ironman stumbles…

10.29.2010

Interesting times for the World Triathlon Corporation, owners of the Ironman brand. As 1) a repeat Ironman competitor myself, at both full (140.6) and 70.3 distances, 2) a professional who works with brands everyday and 3) respects the Ironman brand… although I don’t have it tattooed on me… it’s intriguing to watch the stumbles made [...]

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fortyninegroup and Jetmind strategic partnership announcement

09.14.2010

We announced a new strategic partnership today, with Jetmind Technologies. Jetmind is a New York-based software development company, with deep expertise in iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android mobile development. Our clients and prospective clients had been looking for a trusted app developer, and we’re pleased to now offer these services. Jetmind has already done work for [...]

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It’s a Mom’s www

07.09.2010

Facebook and Twitter get the headlines, but one of the biggest developments in socialized content and expression enabled by the internet has been the rise of the Mom Blogging communities. At the center of this ecosystem are a number of high ranking aggregators that act as hubs to the spokes of all the Mom Blogs. [...]

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Looking back – looking ahead

07.02.2010

Looking back I seldom look back on a week, preferring to always look ahead to the next week. Even rarer are the occasions when I would allow the occurrences to coalesce into a posting, but in the technology world, a lot has happened – one event was substantial in scale, others… smaller but portending the [...]

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Innovation + Marketing

06.03.2010

I think constantly about these two business fundamentals. When all facets of a business – operational, financial, product development or innovation and marketing are distilled to the most valuable assets, in the end I believe the essence is found in Innovation and Marketing. So it is that I find myself assessing the merits of all [...]

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