Best Advice for Entrepreneurs: F-U! Follow-Up (or Fail) June 30, 2015When you are first starting out in business, the people around you can have a profound influence on your direction, approach and even your happiness. If you’re lucky, you’ll be...
SkyMall Will Fly Again. Get Ready for a New Pilot. June 30, 2015New developments in SCOTTeVEST’s bid to resurrect the bankrupt seat-back pocket catalog company A few weeks ago, the news broke that SkyMall was bankrupt. You know SkyMall – everyone knows...
The Writing on the Wall: How I am dealing with my Facebook addiction June 29, 2015I am a CEO overcoming a Facebook addiction Facebook addiction – like any addiction – has real consequences in the physical world that affect you and everyone around you. I...
Evolve or Fail: How I Reinvented Myself as an Entrepreneur June 29, 2015It takes more than passion, promotion and money to sustain a business. It requires leadership and management (and a dozen other things, but let’s just stick with these two for...
Why I HATE Knockoffs, but LOVE Competition June 25, 2015Let me make something clear: as an entrepreneur, I LOVE competition. It’s part of what drives me, and it’s literally what drives me when I’m racing a car on a...
The Importance of People July 17, 2013Part One: Our “Bozo Explosion” and How We Recovered For the longest time when I was just starting out in business, I had a premise about people. I thought, ‘why...