Accelerating serendipity

Can you make happy accidents happen more often?

The End of the Org Chart

Why The Best Companies Won’t Think in Terms of “Sales” and “Customer Service”…

How I Got My Startup Profitable in 6 Weeks

My previous startup had a sales cycle problem. We sold an enterprise product targeted at agencies and big consumer brands, and — while we could clearly articulate benefits — we could only point to an opaque, fuzzy ROI for the buyer during the sales…

How the Human Brain Experiences Your Brand

Lessons for Marketers, Designers and Entrepreneurs

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On risks and adventures

A pre-birthday essay on risks, tragedies, possibility and adventures

I’m Chris, I’m 29, and this is the most honest thing I’ve ever written. In the first let’s say (hope?) third of my life, I started three companies…

The Year Social Media Moves Beyond Social

Social is entering a new era in the history of its…

How to Win Anyone’s Attention

The average person now consumes eleven to twelve hours of media, checks their phone close to 110 times and sees an estimated 5,000 marketing messages each day. When most of us also regularly put in 8+ hours on the job, it’s no wonder our collective attention span is more taxed…

Does Honesty Make Better Content?

What you can learn about marketing from a mobile app for secrets

Easier to do well than do good

If you’ve ever been hand-delivered a cease-and-desist, you’ll probably agree with me they’re pretty under-whelming—just a plain manilla envelope of papers that kind of resemble some high school essays teachers return to you at the end of the semester. When I got mine from a…