Category: Digital Media

Matching vs Recommendations

I spoke to someone who described themselves as a CFO-for-hire a while back. After hearing my description of Trybe’s mission, she commented that “there are a ton of recommendation sites out there.” I couldn’t deny that but felt that this didn’t adequately describe our concept. It inspired some thinking about how we are different. I […]

Digital Media

“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.” –John Gardner A friend, M, and I were talking about the iPad the other night. I said I thought it was going to […]

Convenience

I used to manage a group of very talented people at AOL that was named “Convenience” by someone more senior than me, likely in a fit of wry humor. It was somewhat embarrassing to hand out my business card at places like Citibank and watch the reaction of senior bankers in blue suits. They immediately sized […]