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Old Gray Advice
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008During the early part of the 20th century, New York City’s Tin Pan Alley district was the epicenter of American popular music. During its heyday, Tin Pan Alley musicians devised an inexpensive yet effective method to obtain free, expert advice – they played new songs to elderly doormen [...]
Kiss of Death – Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs
Friday, September 19th, 2008Agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are like DC Comic’s evil villainess, Poison Ivy. Both are seductive and alluring and both are potentially fatal.
As a startup, your most meaningful agreements will likely be struck with BDCs. You will no doubt craft agreements with companies of similar or even smaller size compared [...]
Thrill The Messenger – How An Entrepreneur Can Put Words In Media Messengers’ Mouths
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008After patiently listening to a messenger deliver the Persian King Xerxes’s request for Sparta’s capitulation, the Spartan King Leonidas unceremoniously kicked the messenger down a well.
Anger at receiving bad news is a natural human reaction. Sophocles, Shakespeare and the Bible all reference the killing of the bearer of bad news. When [...]
Pulp Facts – Entrepreneurial Press Releases Should Generate Revenue
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008“When I looked up from the menu, I was staring into the eyes of a man who had been dead for three years.”
– Opening sentence from “Time of Terror” by Louis L’Amour
“When Speeke came at last to water, he was two days beyond death.”
– Opening sentence from “That Man From the Bitter [...]