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alexstechthoughts:

We don’t have a PR firm at Aviary and deal directly with the press ourselves. This may change down the road, but for now it works pretty well.

I wanted to share how we approach press at Aviary. This will hopefully help other startups in some best practices.

Before we launch anything we put…

alexsrandomtechthoughts:

If you are thinking of joining a startup and have a few offers on the table, take the one where you will be able to work directly under the founder. This is becoming a founder’s apprentice.

It can be an unofficial role, but should be spoken about with the founder before you accept the offer.

alexsrandomtechthoughts:

People always email me asking about securing venues for events they are organizing. This post will include all the potential locations in NYC for events, how many people they can hold, the point people there, and the general feeling of what type of events make sense there.

The venues I cover…

Howard Kingston was nice enough to interview me for his blog, StartupRemarkable.com.

In just under 40 minutes, we riffed on:

• What is a tribe and why are they important?
• The critical importance…

Last Wednesday, Mary Van de Weil was nice enough to have me back on her wonderful NY Brand Lab Radio show.

Mary is brilliant. I was her first ever repeat guest and I hope to be on…

On Tuesday, February 8, 2011, I was lucky enough to help facilitate the Health | Tech | Food event that Luminary Labs put on for Social Media Week. 125 people gathered to openly innovate…

Normally Seth Godin doesn’t tweet.

Seth certainly understands the power of the medium for both good (engaging and leading a tribe) and evil (acting as crack cocaine for The Resistance, distraction…

When is the last time you drank clean water? Probably today. Certainly within the last 24 hours. You showered and brushed your teeth with clean water this morning.

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