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Full circle: consulting, Silicon Valley start-ups, co-founding the TSA, venture capital, and back to Kearney
Full circle: consulting, Silicon Valley start-ups, co-founding the TSA, venture capital, and back to Kearney. The story of how I ended up around Kearney for 25 years from a small town in Alabama.
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Posted in A.T. Kearney, Kearney, Relationships, Silicon Valley
Tagged A.T.Kearney, alabama, Ben T Smith IV, Carnegie Mellon, Football, Kearney, relationships, Spoke Software, Startups, venture capitalists, web entreprenuer
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The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street » Nieman Journalism Lab
A great piece on the importance of retail advertsing to the newspaper business and the indirect fight between Amazon and the papers happening now. “Classifieds has decimated by interactive databases. National has migrated strongly digital. Retail, which made up of … Continue reading
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The Newspaper Industry and Digital Ads
Newspapers are probably never completely going away. In fact, they are never going away. Newspapers have traditionally supported themselves through advertising. Advertisers pay newspapers to publish their ads, which gives the papers the money they need to publish the paper, … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Deals, Newspapers
Tagged advertising, Ben T Smith IV, investment, newspapers, ShopCo, social-media, Startups
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Building a Shopping Solution
I have been involved in ShopCo Holdings just about two months now as the Chief Executive Officer. I figured it is about time I start sharing a bit about it. ShopCo Holdings is a company backed by 12 large US Media companies … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
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Ben Smith, Steve Goetz: You Are Welcome To Our Facebook Passwords If You Turn Over Your FICO Score -peHUB
Dear Employer. If you think our Facebook passwords are necessary to review our job applications, you are welcome to them. In exchange, we would like to see your FICO score and the recent credit applications of key executives. Is this … Continue reading
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Justin Oberman, Ben Smith: America’s Biggest Startup And Its Lessons For Entrepreneurs | peHUB
Can you name America’s largest startup? It’s not Facebook or Amazon or even Home Depot. It isn’t even a technology company. This little known giant is the Transportation Security Administration and its massive scale up offers a roadmap for entrepreneurs … Continue reading
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Tagged A.T.Kearney, Ben T Smith IV, hot startups, norman mineta, relationships, Startups, transportation security administration, TSA
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