Song for Karen

Recent Articles

• a short decision tree for web entrepreneurs

  September 9, 2010 in The Artist's Dilemma, entrepreneurship, tech

  While I make the occasional investment in startups, I’m by no means a VC/Angel, and certainly am not in the same universe as people like Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet , Todd Dagres.…

• iterate, don’t (over) cogitate

  September 8, 2010 in Productivity, entrepreneurship, marketing

  I gave a lecture on entrepreneurship last night to a group of incredibly creative students. One of them made the statement that he was conflicted about the idea of merch. In particular, he…

• A Time to Worry

  September 7, 2010 in Productivity, Quick Thoughts

  I had a meeting recently with a brilliant business woman/Broadway Producer. What was supposed to be (and, in part was) a meeting about strategy and marketing., became a conversation about productivity, time management, etc.…

• Psychographics and Customer Acquisition/Retention

  August 31, 2010 in marketing

  Berklee’s Music Business Journal recently published an article I wrote on fan identification and acquisition/retention. My friend, Dave Kusek - who, in addition to running Berklee Music wrote the fantastic book …

• “if it’s pure, it hits you like a sledgehammer”

  August 16, 2010 in creativity, music

  I read the 33 1/3 Series book on Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on an airplane over the - uh - dirt (and some sea) recently.

  To say that the…