TweetYou’re a junior or senior either majoring in english or PR and want to get a fast track into the publishing industry. My book, The Ultralight Startup , launches this spring. It’s published by Penguin Publishing, an imprint of Pearson, one of the world’s largest publishers in the world. This is a once in a [...]

Tweet My mom found this document (I think I wrote it for some TAG/Olympics of the Mind speech competition in 8th Grade.) when she was unpacking the other day.  I’ve been searching for it for a while and finding it meant a lot to me.  After reading it for the first time in over a decade, [...]

Tweet Almost every startup needs to execute a PR strategy in some way or another to succeed.  One of the key aspects of executing PR is reaching out to journalists + bloggers (I could write a whole post on the right+wrong way to do this).  How do you get that contact info?  A lot of [...]

Tweet Leaked pic via @MattPRD 3 Things For This Morning iPhone Update 16/32/64 GB Capacities No More 3G, only 3GS, including $99 price point Verizon added iPhone OS Update Bunch of new features related to the iPhone. Mobile Me/ iLife updates have heavy integration. Most of the work done regarding to something new we want [...]

Tweet Amazon announced today that they are going to offer 70% royalties to authors/content companies that put their books on the Kindle.  Business Insider points out some of the limitations and restrictions, but they seem pretty fair.  If you are an author aligning yourself with this model, the restrictions are a good thing as it [...]