Do I Lead or Manage?

If leaders are supposed to lead, and managers are supposed to manage, then what do I do? The good news is that you don’t have to choose…do both. Whether you...

MediaFriends Jumps on the Content Curation ‘Bandwagon’ with New App

The growing popularity of content curation has led to a slew of...

Lessons from HubSpot: 10 Keys to Ensure Success for Growing Companies & for Sales People

I had to write this post right away, before I forgot some of the details or lost my train of thought...

First Look: Cogent Mobile

Sales reps spend a lot of their time on the road, talking to clients and prospects, and gathering information that should end up in a CRM. But since they are humans, the longer...

First Look: peddl

When it comes to buying and selling secondhand things, there have been few technological innovations after the garage sale and Craig’s List. But a new startup called peddl is using its MIT...

First Look: Fundraise.com Journalists love hooks. An interesting angle turns yet another story about a new startup into something palatable in a sea of press release style announcements that start...

First Look: Springpad Though this column may be called First Look, this post is far from it. Way back in November of 2008, I wrote about a startup in Charlestown called Springpad. From that...

First Look: mtiks Unless you’re a recording artist or a member of the MPAA, it’s likely that piracy isn’t top of mind. And if you’re a developer creating iPhone, Android, and Windows phone apps...

First Look: Textaurant Textaurant is focused on solving a simple issue that everyone can identify with: waiting for a table at a restaurant stinks. Even when the restaurant hands you a plastic...

First Look: Spreadable How do you get people to talk about your brand? There are dozens of tools out there that allow your content to be “sharable” (ShareThis, AddThis and AddToAny come to mind), but Spreadable, the new product from the team at Grasshopper Group is taking the focus away from sharing content, and instead concentrates...

First Look: Marginize Sometimes it is difficult to change your own prejudices. The moment I heard about Marginize, an app that lets anyone comment on any web page, my knee-jerk reaction was “Really? Another one of those?” In the past few years, dozens of apps have attempted to get people to comment on the “margins” of pages...

First Look: xtra xtra Ah, hyperlocal news: The promise of delivering local stories, events and announcements (and ads) based on geographical relevance. Internet giants like AOL and Yahoo! have pumped tens of millions into creating content factories that target to the granularity of the neighborhood, and now...