The Most Useless Answer on LinkedIn

I post my blog posts on LinkedIn Answers to get valuable feedback on my opinions and to bring traffic to the site. I have received some great input and have met some great people through LinkedIn Answers so I recently posted a question about unpaid internships. Here is the original post: Unpaid Internships vs Paid [...]

My take on why CMO’s get fired

I have read two great blog entries about why CMO’s get fired: John Rindlaub and David Meerman Scott.
Now, I’ve only been a CMO for about a little over 6 months, but I’m really starting to understand what they are writing about. From my perspective (and it’s the perspective of a startup CMO) CMO’s can get [...]

The Point of No Return for Startups

Startups are tough. It can be a tough and lonely road where you will work 100+ hours a week, and see no initial movement in your business. Few companies make it to the point where the company finally starts running on its own, and subsequently, the company starts running you. My business partner Yu-kai Chou [...]

Weekly Update: 3/21/08

My weekly update where I describe how the company progress has been going.

Why was I chosen to speak?

My colleagues (Yu-kai, Shin, Gabe, and Garren) and I went to an event tonight called The First 100 Days of a CMO. The presenter was Scott Hamilton from Allign and he spoke about how a CMO can successfully integrate himself within the company and ultimately lead the company to success. Overall it was a great [...]

Start selling before you even have a product

Will brings up an excellent point in his blog post: You Dont Need to Have a Product to Sell a Product. This is the problem that I have faced as a young CMO and I’m sure it is a problem that many of you are facing.
“How do I sell something that I don’t have?” It’s [...]

Emotions > Logic

So yesterday I posted my first blog post on Brazen Careerist. The title of my blog post was “Flirt with the Interviewer.” You can read the post for yourself and comment about what you think of it.
The reason I wrote this blog post was that I wanted to demonstrate to people that it is possible [...]