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Big Changes Are Afoot
You may have noticed a few things are different around the blog. It’s an exciting time of growth and a time for experimentation. Friday I announced that anyone who joins my mailing list will receive a...
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Don’t Freak Out When People Like Your Startup Concept
The scariest part of validating my business was not fighting skeptics. That I could handle. I freaked when people told me my idea made sense. That’s not what you’re supposed to hear. Is it? “First they...
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Slow Down
Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, SnapChat, Pinterest. 3D Printing, Big Data Analytics, Google Glass. Sound familiar? As entrepreneurs we’re constantly rushing from one hot fad to the next. No one seems to...
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Sorry Zuck, Entrepreneurs Deserve Better Role Models
I throw up in my mouth a little every time someone says the words, “the next Mark Zuckerberg.” What a shameful, limiting ambition. I’m all for entrepreneurs getting rich. When we create real value,...
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Why Entrepreneurs Need Pharell’s Happiness Hypnosis
You are what you think. That’s why self-hypnosis is so vital to entrepreneurial success. This past Friday Pharell Williams released a 24-hour music video for his song ‘I’m Happy,’ which involved...
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Stop Thinking Like A Startup
In my last company I was motivated by a desire to help people, but I didn’t think of it as a business. Until it was too late. I was thinking like a startup founder, not the owner of a business. Enough...
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Ironlak Shows How To Be Your Awesome Self With Content Marketing That Rocks
People hear the words “content marketing,” and claim we’re in a bubble. Oh no, my friend. The branded content wave is just getting started. Watch this amazing, inspiring and creative spot from spray...
View ArticleFight QuizUp And You Will Lose
Call me contrarian. I don’t like app fads. You won’t find me on SnapChat, and I was late to Words With Friends. Don’t even ask me about Candy Crush Saga. I refuse. QuizUp is different. Released just...
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Learn To Tell The Difference Between Resiliency And Positive Thinking
What follows is a couple lessons about resiliency from my own life. The difference between resiliency and positive thinking Saturday I was in Portland, OR, after spending Thanksgiving week with my...
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Public Relations Lessons From A $4 Slice Of Toast
My favorite coffee shop has a public relations problem. Or does it? Located just a few blocks from my house, the coffee shop sells $4 slices of gourmet toast, along with home-baked pastries and bread....
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Friends Know When To Say When
Earlier this week I received an email from an entrepreneur whom I admire, with good and bad news. He was pulling the plug on a project weeks before it was due to launch. That was the bad news. The good...
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Musician Kutiman And The Era Of Massively-Viral Content
One of the world’s most remarkable modern musicians is someone whom you’ve almost certainly never heard of. And yet he’s hiding in plain sight on YouTube. Israeli artist Kutiman burst onto the...
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Startup Spirit Animals: 6 BizDev Lessons From Africa’s Apex Predators
When injured, the painted hunting dog knows she will be fed and cared for by her pack. African wild dogs are fiercely loyal. Everything is for the good of the pack. Through collaboration the wild dogs...
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Uber: Public Relations God Or Goat?
When disaster strikes, count on Uber to cash in. Last week’s East Coast snow storm had San Francisc0-based car-on-demand service Uber in the news for all the wrong reasons. The pile-on started when...
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Our Top 10 Posts Of 2013
Since launching this blog in late April I have posted 146 essays, how-to’s and opinion pieces here on PR Tips For Startups. We’ve had readers in more than 140 countries, on six continents. I’d like to...
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Revisiting Last Year’s Resolution: Patience
Last year I had one new year’s resolution; patience. Good things come to those who wait. Because it was so simple I was able to remind myself of my resolution for nearly two months before getting...
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Email Cleanse
I just performed a long-overdue purge of 1,300* unread messages in my business email inbox. The oldest message was from Mar. 28, 2013–nine months ago! Our lives leave fewer and fewer meaningful...
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Why Tumblr Is Really An Academy For Thought Leaders
When Yahoo purchased Tumblr last year they bought more than a microblogging platform. Through it’s acquisition of Tumblr Yahoo now owns one of the world’s foremost networks of subject matter experts....
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Chipotle’s ‘Farmed And Dangerous’ Comedy Pushes The Boundaries of Content...
Already a vocal critic of factory farming, Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle has just unleashed the unexpected with announcement of a new scripted comedy series, “Farmed And Dangerous,” premiering on...
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How A Small Seattle Museum Successfully Newsjacked The Super Bowl With A...
Interior of the Kwakwaka’wakw transformation mask depicting an eagle that is the likely inspiration for the Seattle Seahawks logo. Image via Published in Robert Bruce Inverarity’sArt of the Northwest...
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