May 2013
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Yu & Us
The Pramana Collective has been out of the box for about eight weeks. Amidst the typical startup stuff like getting office space (see above), developing a P&L, securing healthcare benefits, and discussing debating logos, we have had the opportunity to talk to a whole lot of people we respect about Pramana’s focus and intent and we’re grateful for the support and wise counsel.
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April 2013
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John's Tumblr: Foursquare →
lilly:
I was really happy to hear the details of Foursquare’s financing this morning, but a little bummed to see how my conversation with Businessweek came out in the article, just saying that I thought the $600M price was too high.
What I spent probably 95% of my conversation with Businessweek…
I love how Greylock partner John Lilly took on how he was quoted in Businessweek quickly,...
March 2013
1 post
Finding Pramana
Brandee Barker has the calming wisdom of someone who learned a lifetime of lessons in her four years at Facebook. She started the company’s communications team and was its leader during Facebook’s most formative, fast-moving years. Brandee recognized that when you are moving at mind-bending speeds, you have to make 100 decisions a day and, within those, a few mistakes will be made. Brandee...
November 2012
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When Gazelles Cry
The tech PR/media kerfuffle of the week occurred when, and I’m paraphrasing here, TechCrunch, among others, wrote a story based on a fake press release and, after an apology by TC’s co-editor, TechCrunch’s east coast editor posited that, because people on the internet constantly demand new cat photos and don’t reward depth, PR people shouldn’t be hired by companies so TechCrunch can...
October 2012
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Thoughts on AirPR
If you are following the PR industry at all, you might have noticed the launch of a new service called AirPR. PandoDaily understatedly suggests that AirPR “could be the biggest disruption yet to PR”.
And, the CEO of the new ventures told TechCrunch that ”PR is horribly broken $10 billion industry ripe for disruption” and naturally implies that AirPR is just the fix.
It...
September 2012
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Go Away
I just returned from a trip of a lifetime — three months in Costa Rica with my wife and two young children. We experienced amazing wildlife just outside (and inside) our doors; embraced the culture of the small beach town we called home; and, came home with an untold number of vivid memories that will help shape us as individuals and as a family forever.
To make it happen, my wife quit her...
May 2012
2 posts
Advice to the Graduate (Interested in PR)
“Well don’t believe in people who say it’s all been done,
They have time to talk because their race is run”
—“Advice to the Graduate”, Silver Jews
The day after my last college final, I packed up everything I owned, drove a sputtering car six hours and started work doing communications for a state-wide political campaign in Sacramento. That Monday began...
The Full Story -- Or one side of it anyway.
It’s common practice for PR folk to take notes during an executive interview with a reporter. Some companies take this at step further and either record the interviews or practically transcribe them. When a reporter is working on a feature and interviewing multiple execs, detailed notes obviously provide good insight on the direction a reporter is taking and how well the exec is responding...
April 2012
2 posts
Fascination Street
So let’s cut the conversation,
And get out for a bit…
-The Cure, “Fascination Street”
The fascination with the SF Weekly column on how right-thinking people shouldn’t be fascinated with self-fascinated tech bloggers is, well, fascinating.
I’ve long wondered why so much attention is given to the small stakes ego-driven drama that emanates from certain tech...
It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural...
Hey guys.
Since I was at Twitter, one of the things I have been doing a lot of is pontificating. Those who know me would say that this isn’t too different any period in my life. But, when it comes to the state of the marketing/communications industry, there has been an actual point, edge and timeliness to my rants — as opposed to my more typical babblings about the dangerous threat...
