I was recently interviewed (part 1 and part 2) by David Wogahn's Media Makers on Sellbox.com. David's approach: Media Makers are individuals who have managed the production of a media product–book, video, a website or mobile device; in paper or digital–and usually have been involved in the marketing and sales. Most of the time these products are for resale. There seems to be no shortage of product reviews, but what about the work that went into creating and marketing the product? More often than not...
From the WSJ Speakeasy When Apple first announced the launch of its iPad digital tablet on January 27, many media and technology experts immediately focused on the device’s applications for video games, e-books and other digital media. Finnish filmmaker Kimmo Kuusniemi, however, saw the iPad as the perfect distributor of his independent documentary, “Promised Land of Heavy Metal.” A film about the history and philosophy of the heavy metal movement in Finland, “Promised Land” was the culmination of several years...
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Well you can thank VeriSign:If your site has stopped working, you might be affected by a recent change to .com, .net, and .edu domain names. This change from VeriSign® requires that the NS records for a domain name have associated A records.Thanks for the heads up on this one. I've just blown 4 hours working this out. Here's what you have to do via Godaddy: How do I fix it? You need to log in to your control panel and modify the affected domain name's zone file, using the table below as an example. To Modify or...
Tim Cook at Apple: “This is the most focused company I know of, am aware of, or have any knowledge of... We say no to good ideas every day.” Cook then pointed out to analysts that every single product the company makes would fit on the single conference table in front of him. “And we had revenue last year of $40 billion."via seth godin
Check out Clive Thompson's piece: "In Praise of Obscurity" from Wired."When it comes to your social network, bigger is better. Or so we’re told. The more followers and friends you have, the more awesome and important you are. That’s why you see so much oohing and aahing over people with a million Twitter followers. But lately I’ve been thinking about the downside of having a huge online audience. When you go from having a few hundred Twitter followers to ten thousand, something unexpected happens: Social networking...
Steve Rubel posted this morning that your address book is the next great social network. I couldn't agree more. I believe over the next three years social networks will be turned inside out. You will be at the center. You will be able to use all kinds of social objects to interact with your friends the way you do now on facebook/twitter etc. You won't "join" networks. They will form around you based on what you happen to be interested in at any given moment. Think of it this way: Right now a lot of people...
Mark Smillie is a serial entrepreneur. He has spent the last 6 years working on a number of ventures related to indie film distribution, the "Open Web" and Retail Healthcare.
Previously, he spent his career analyzing investment opportunities as an Equity Research Analyst at Alex. Brown, and The Seidler Cos, and as an Investment banker, at Roth Capital and TripleTree. His focus has been in Pharma, Biotech, Med Device, Molecular Diagnostics, Wireless Healthcare and Web 2.0 Software. He has also spent time working for Gilead Sciences, Syntex Labs, consulting companies and a database software company.
His experience has given him a unique perspective on how companies are built and run. He is a firm believer in the "Hollywood" approach to running companies as "projects" and outsourcing to tap into the best talent the globe has to offer.
He has been a founder of Stonehenge Productions, Objective Insights, localmo.com, zinsum.com, TodsCircus.com and a variety of other web service companies as well as a boutique ad agency: SpotOn Marketing Communications. He has also developed a number of iPhone Apps currently on iTunes App Store. He maintains a blog here and at mfsmillie.com.
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