Todd Sampson

Why is this happening again?  Why does every media industry feel compelled to make the same dumb mistakes? It’s like these companies are waving, Ms. Creative Destruction please come over here and wipe out my business.  I just don’t get it.
The latest case in point is the book publishing industry (from Reuters):
The new [Amazon] Kindle [...]

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A company is made up of humans that interact with it.
A company should be an amplifier for the personalities of the people that work, invest, discuss, hire, or partner with it. (That is what great brands do, right — they polarize and let a person say something to the outside world just [...]

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When my great friend & MyBlogLog co-founder Eric Marcoullier and I are asked by other founders:
“Hey, we just received an offer of $XX Million to sell our company to [Google/Microsoft/Yahoo!/etc.].  Do you think we should take it?”
Our answer is always the same:
“Is it enough money for you to never see your startup change again?  Would [...]

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For those who missed the classic Seinfeld episode (scene 1, scene 2) shrinkage is what happens when your man-bits get too cold. The funny thing is, the same thing can happen to your network. If the relationships with your contacts go cold — through falling out of touch or contacting them only when [...]

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I have been a big Seth Godin fan for years.  While I often find that I enjoy his blog and online videos more than his books, his new one Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us really hits it out of the park.  Among the many insights I gleamed from the book — [...]

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I have been playing the wrong game.  Ever since founding Cloudspace in 1996, I have been responsible for making the companies I am working at both a financial and technical success.  I have worked really hard and have become damn good at this role.  My problem since selling MyBlogLog to Yahoo! last year [...]

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Def. Where the level of management oversight has grown so large as to reach fully-diminished returns.
Often seen in large companies where review processes, in an effort to minimize risk, keep any new initiatives from reaching the marketplace.  This phenomenon is commonly manifested in the form of a good idea being put on hold [...]

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