by Will | Dec 13, 2016 | Business | 0 Comments
As the founder of a small ad agency, I’m very interested in Middle Market Firms, which despite being described in an incredibly boring way, are actually pretty fascinating. Here are the salient points: Middle Market Firms are defined as firms that are neither...
by Will | Dec 8, 2016 | Business | 0 Comments
I just watched an interview with Bill Gates where he referred to Warren Buffett as a great “systems thinker,” which is a term I wasn’t familiar with. It refers to someone who looks at a given situation and sees the interrelationships that define the...
by Will | Nov 27, 2016 | Business | 0 Comments
At my core, I’m a vision-driven entrepreneur, not a bean-counter. To be frank, the financial side of business does not come naturally to me. But as someone who has built and sold one business, and then built another three businesses after that, I have learned...
by Will | Oct 16, 2016 | eLearning | 0 Comments
The Atlantic and the New Yorker seem to be very interested in higher education. Here are some interesting articles: Laptop U. (The New Yorker) Will MOOCs Be Flukes? (The New Yorker) Why For-Profit Education Fails (The Atlantic) What’s The Real Value of Higher...
by Will | Oct 13, 2016 | Advertising | 0 Comments
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trend’s report should be required reading for anyone in the advertising business. Here are some interesting highlights regarding the global economy and global Internet trends: India passed the US to become #2 global Internet user...
by Will | Oct 2, 2016 | Photography | 0 Comments
As you may know, I’m a serious amateur photographer, and as an INTJ, enjoy having very long-term plans. One of my long-term plans is to photograph all of the monuments in my hometown, Washington, DC and Arlington, Virginia. Here’s the list: The Washington...
by Will | Oct 2, 2016 | Business | 0 Comments
A lot of people use terms like startup, company and entrepreneurship is a muddy way. Here are my favorite definitions: “A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable and scalable business model.” – Steve Blank “A company is an...
by Will | Sep 7, 2016 | Advertising | 0 Comments
Since I’ve started telling other people in the advertising industry what they should and shouldn’t read or watch, I thought I’d add Martin Sorrell’s interviews to the list. No one does a better job of explaining the world of advertising than...
by Will | Sep 6, 2016 | Business | 0 Comments
Anyone who knows me knows that I care about metrics, because I deal in them every day as the founder of a performance marketing company. And an article about a new metric from McKinsey caught my eye: profit per employee. The idea is that companies are too focused on...
by Will | Sep 5, 2016 | Business | 0 Comments
One of my favorite resources for taking the pulse of each generation is the Beloit College Mindset List. This is an annual survey of incoming freshmen who are 18 years old. This list began in 1997 as an informal, unattributed reminder for professors to “watch...
