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Account planning is to glamorous

by Jake Yarbrough on July 13, 2009


As rest is to the weary.

It’s been a crazy week. Trying to launch a business is fun. Full of pitfalls, but fun. I am so grateful for the huge numbers of people who took the time to read my blatherings and actually send me comments in return. I’m attempting to respond in kind to each of you. If it takes a while, please be patient.

Some great opportunities and interesting conversations already. One thing is for certain. The spirit of entrepreneurship is alive and well out there. It’s sort of like an underground protest against the macro-economic conditions. Many of the people I conversed with today are thumbing their noses at the bleak outlook and remaining optimistic. They like the idea of 8th Idea. The niche of working with the “care” businesses — healthcare, animal health, hospitality and not-for-profit. They are encouraged by the spirit of collaboration with small- to mid-size advertising and public relations firms.

How are you feeling? Are you optimistic or pessimistic? Do you fall on the side that think this is a great time to be entrepreneurial or a great time to hunker down?

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News Flash: Genders Are Different

February 25, 2009

The Wired Blog recently brought to light a story about the differences in the way male and female brains process the perception of beauty. An excerpt from the blog:
In men, images they consider to be beautiful appear to activate brain regions responsible for locating objects in absolute terms — x- and y-coordinates on a grid. [...]

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Does Finding Bin Ladin Help Marketing?

February 24, 2009

John Tierny posted a story to his blog last week that related to an interview I saw on, of all places, The Colbert Report. In it, Tierny reports on the study by UCLA geography professor Thomas W. Gillespie in which he applies two aspects of the island biogeographic theory to posit theories on where Osama [...]

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Is it Interconnectedness or Selfish Altruism?

October 13, 2008

Image via: www.flickr.com/photos/blaugra/211233265
Adrian Ho at Zeus Jones has raised some interesting questions in the past. Lately, he has posited a hypothesis for this decade’s “theme.”
His excellent post today on interconnectedness as the motivator for this decade makes a lot of sense. As he points out, there are countless examples of the ways in which we [...]

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Here’s to a great 08

January 2, 2008

There’s no question in my mind.
2008 will be much better than 2007.
Has to be.
The girls and I just put together our resolutions for the coming year. It is quite an exercise to explain the concept of “resolutions” to a four-year-old. The nice thing is that going through this process tonight has reminded me of the [...]

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Emergence

November 30, 2007

This weekend I listened to a podcast of Radio Lab from back in August. It was a discussion of the science of emergence. Sounds eerily similar to my previous post. I must just be catching on. Anyway, the idea that a seemingly chaotic, disorganized mass can be more intelligent and become more quickly organized than [...]

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