We all know that 2016 was a dumpster fire. I don’t need to rehash this. But for me, personally, 2016 was one of the biggest struggles of my life. After two failed entrepreneurship ventures in 2014 and 2015, I started 2016 freelancing, underbidding for projects just so I can get…

Let me get this out of the way. I’m 35 years old. This puts meat the tail end of being a millennial (technically) but honestly I identify way more with Generation X than anything. Personally, I think Snapchat’s insistence on Selfies and Hipster-influenced culture is annoying. Kids don’t go to…

Thanks to Slack and Facebook, Bot-Mania is upon us. But what does this really mean for your organization? — A few months ago, a startup client asked me a very pertinent question: “Should we shift our development from apps to bots?” The team started looking at engagement in their private Slack channels and they started to actively debate pivoting their business model to focus on distributing their app via…

Five Apps For Greater Productivity in 2016 — Let’s face it. Freelancing can suck sometimes. There are no rules for this life. No order. Every day you are tasked with making lemons out of lemonade. But as Drake and Future would say…. “what a time to be alive.” Whether you’re working for yourself or you’re building a team…

How Jay Z Could Create A New Digital First Music Label and Shake Up The Music Business. — Tidal made news last week, and not in the best way. First we learned of the departure of Tidal CEO Andy Chen, and the layoffs of 25 additional employees. Then, a number of news outlets noted that not only did Tidal not make the cut of the top 700 apps…

So first off, let me say that I want Jay-Z to win. I want him to shake up the music streaming marketplace in a way that no other company has done before. I want the bonafide hustler to hustle the industry, and I want musicians to be seated at the…

Music sales are at an all time low. The US music industry sold half as many units in 2014 as it did in the year prior. It took until October for the country to see its first platinum album release of 2014. And although streaming music revenues are rising, disputes…

Photo by Dan Taylor / http://www.dantaylorphotography.com/ Last week our team boarded a plane to Dublin to attend Web Summit. The European conference has emerged from a gathering of around 400 or so in 2010, to over 20,000 attendees in 2014. That meteoric rise is putting a conference once known as…

Ello was the talk of Facebook timeline this weekend. My friends, most of them not in the tech industry, were singing it’s praises in spades, even after only hours of using the service. I don’t know what made me beg for an Ello invite. Maybe it was the Fear of…