28 2017 July
What VCs Look For In Robotics Startups (And What It Can Teach You)
As investing in robotics takes off, this story about what VCs and investors look for has a valuable insight as shared by investor Josh Wolfe...
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26 2017 July
Why Chief Marketing Officers Don’t Last
The tenure of most Chief Marketing Officers is woefully short, but this fact is often dismissed as a symptom of changing leadership or sometimes ineffective...
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17 2017 July
Famous iPhone Hacker Creates Tool To Let You Hack Your Car
The more technology gets baked into things that we once enjoyed in simpler formats ,the more people will choose to “Strategically Downgrade.” Many farmers, for...
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27 2017 March
7 Inventions That Will Change The World (Or Fail Spectacularly)
Inventions are fun and world changing … but sometimes they are also dumb and head-scratching. In this week’s email, I’ll share a few of both....
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13 2017 January
Kodak Brings Back Film, How To Be Funny On Stage, and the Professional Snowball Fighting League
The stories this week offer a valuable reminder that while we tend to focus a lot of our attention on looking forward toward the future,...
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23 2016 December
Hasbro Saves Families, Amazon’s Uber Idea, CES 2017 and Marketing Lessons From Hatchimals
Given it is the end of the year, this week’s stories include several holiday themes, including an inside look at the PR strategy behind Hatchimals,...
Read Now09 2016 December
15 Non-Obvious Business Trends Shaping 2017 (Retail, Consumer, Tech, Marketing, and Media)
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Read Now30 2016 September
Hermès Branded Film, Firefox’s Secret Browser & How Doritos Might Save America
Inspired by the Presidential Debate, the first story in this week’s newsletter features an amazingly smart “Rock The Vote” campaign from Doritos that could have...
Read Now01 2016 July
Intel Creates Drone Fireworks, Unilever Bans Sexist Ads and How To Spin Getting Fired
Fear dominated the headlines this week as “Brexit” cast a scary spotlight on everything from the future of globalization to the belief gap between the...
Read Now29 2016 April
Google’s Stealth Incubator, Buzzfeed’s Secret, Apple’s Woes And The Color Of The Year
My mind has been on startups and new ideas lately, as I spent most of this past week at Collision in New Orleans learning about...
Read Now25 2016 March
Fake Farms, Virtual Reality Tacos, Rise of Bootcamps and Why Apple Stopped Innovating
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Read Now11 2016 March
BMW’s Shape Shifting Car, Disney’s Brilliant $1Billion Idea and the Smartest News App Ever
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Read Now13 2015 February
Batkid, Bollywood and the Rise Of Everyday Stardom
On the morning of November 15, 2013, most of San Francisco woke up with no idea that their city was about to be saved by...
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