THURSDAY, December 06, 2007

Featured in the December/January issue of Fast Company Magazine

Open Season On Apple, pg. 82.
Apple is arguably the most successful company in Silicon Valley these days. It is widely admired for its customer-focused products, its enviable design aesthetic, and unmatched success with problem solving. Yet, restrictive tech model is at odds with a prevailing assumption in most of techland that open-platform collaboration and iterative group work are what drive creativity and growth. Fast Company's December/January cover story, "Open Season on Apple," illuminates a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley and across our economy. Is openness and sharing undeniably the route to progress? Or is the conventional wisdom on this topic faulty - is the pressure of isolation what's most needed to drive innovation?

WEDNESDAY, November 28, 2007

Featured in the December 2007 Issue of Inc. Magazine

THE SMARTEST INVESTOR YOU NEVER HEARD OF: Inc. Magazine Names Elon Musk, Co-Founder Of PayPal, Entrepreneur Of The Year, pg. 114.
Elon Musk, the ousted co-founder of PayPal wants to provide solar power to everyone, put us in supercharged electric cars, and colonize Mars. And since the editors of Inc. believe he just might pull off all three, the magazine named Musk its 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year. Musk, is 36-years old, wicked smart, and worth several hundred million dollars. He is also CEO, majority owner, and head rocket designer at SpaceX, an aerospace start-up in El Segundo, Calif., that by 2011, plans to be hauling astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Musk also has two more wildly ambitions start-ups in play - the electric-car maker Tesla Motors and the solar panel installer SolarCity; in both cases, he serves as chairman and controlling shareholder.

WEDNESDAY, October 31, 2007

Featured in the November 2007 Issue of Inc. Magazine

Welcome to the final frontier of human resources, Outsourced termination, pg. 25.
These days, missteps over firing employees can become big news - witness Oracle notifying some 5,000 employees by overnight mail and Radio Shack delivering the bad news to roughly 400 employees via e-mail. While these examples seem cold and unsympathetic, companies are so fearful of wrongful termination lawsuits that they conclude they can't afford to be personal. The November issue of Inc. magazine reports that amid liability concerns (or is that CEO guilt?) an increasing number of companies are hiring outside firms to fire workers. That's right, just when you thought getting fired couldn't be a colder experience, along comes a cadre of consultants that will not only tell you who to fire, but actually do the firing for you.

TUESDAY, October 23, 2007

Featured in the November issue of Fast Company Magazine

How To Get 100 Miles Per Gallon -Today, pg. 74.
Why are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Neil Young handing over their cars to Johnathan Goodwin? In Wichita, genius car tinkerer Goodwin takes the biggest American gas-guzzlers and rejiggers them to quadruple their normal mileage and push emissions close to zero, all while doubling the horsepower. That's right, he's created an engine that's simultaneously green and mean. Goodwin says American automakers could adapt his methods easily. So why isn't it happening? Has this guy figured out a way to save Detroit and produce a radically cleaner and cheaper future for the American car?

MONDAY, October 15, 2007

Inc. Magazine to Raise Rate Base in 2008

NEW YORK, October 15, 2007 - Mansueto Ventures, publisher of the Inc. and Fast Company media brands, today announced that Inc. magazine will raise its circulation rate base from 665,000 to 700,000 - a 5.26% increase - in 2008.