“The Art of the Entrepreneur” The journey of the entrepreneur is a roller-coaster ride of emotions. The images in this show represent 21 emotions that we believe encapsulate the entrepreneurial cycle. This guide will help you match the images you see with the emotions every entrepreneur will feel… Enjoy! THE EMOTIONS DISSATISFACTION FAILURE MEDIOCRITY FEAR, [...]
“You have to love them every day, even if they don’t buy from you every day.”
Thanks so much to Vivek Haldar for his fantastic testimonial for our new line of gapingvoid laptop stickers, which I’m quoting in full, below [Photo- Vivek's laptop.]: I’ve been a fan of Hugh MacLeod’s work since the early 2000s, back when he was actually making cartoons on the backs of business cards and putting them up on [...]
Career Hierarchy
[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] I don’t know about you, but it took me twenty years to get from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. And I don’t think that’s outrageously long compared to most people, I really don’t. Was it worth it? I don’t know, is being alive worth it? [...]
“How To Make The Internet Squeal Like A Pig”
[Babson President Len Schlesinger making the intro...] Last Saturday my business parter, Jason Korman and I gave a wee Q&A talk up at Babson College entitled, “How To Make The Internet Squeal Like A Pig”, as part of their tenth annual Babson Enterprise Forum. Below are the rough notes/transcription, with Jason asking the questions and [...]
“The Market For A Scotch To Believe In Is Infinite”
[One of the Dewars drawings I did while attending TED Global etc.] [Today's guest post is by Jason Korman, my business partner since 2005, and CEO of gapingvoid] “The Market For a Scotch to believe in is Infinite” There are millions of cases at stake for the guys who get the messaging right. We’ve [...]
The Porous Membrane: Why Corporate Blogging Works.
[First published in 2005. I thought it could use another airing etc.] The other day somebody asked me to explain why corporate blogging works. Sure, we know it’s the hot new thing and people are paying attention to it (including big media)…but why?Why does it work? Seriously.So I drew the diagram above. 1. In Cluetrain parlance, we [...]
The Porous Membrane: Why Corporate Blogging Works.
[First published in 2005. I thought it could use another airing etc.] The other day somebody asked me to explain why corporate blogging works. Sure, we know it’s the hot new thing and people are paying attention to it (including big media)…but why? Why does it work? Seriously.So I drew the diagram above. 1. In Cluetrain parlance, [...]
August 12, 2009 / /
shortlist: portfolio number two
[The Short Tail] [Company Hierarchy] [Welcome To...] [I Don't Have Friends.] [I Choose This Life.] [Mistakenly.] [C.F.A.] [Vanished.] Like I said on my last blog post, after the great success of the “Portfolio Number One” launch, we’ve decided to do another one i.e. Portfolio Number Two. ["Portfolio Number One".] And like last time, all images [...]
May 23, 2009 / /
“ignore everybody” prints on their way
[Me signing copies of "Ignore Everybody" earlier this week. 25 boxes, 40 books in each...] With my upcoming book launch less than three weeks away, we decided to published prints from some of the cartoons found in the book. The book has eighty-odd cartoons in it, I’ve made a shortlist of fourteen [See Below], from [...]
The New Republic
Len Schlesinger
Tony Hsieh
Seth Godin
Brian Clark