This post is the third in a series in which I show you how to model viral growth. We started with the simplest possible model, and we are working our way up to a model that simultaneously accounts for non-viral channels, how you retain users over time, and even how a user's virality changes over tim

This post is the second in a series in which I show you how to model viral growth. We started with the simplest possible model, and we are working our way up to a model that simultaneously accounts for non-viral channels, how you retain users over time, and even how a user's virality changes over ti

This post is the first in a series in which I show you how to model viral growth. We start with the simplest possible model, and we will work our way up to a model that simultaneously accounts for non-viral channels, how you retain users over time, and even how a user's virality changes over time.

I'd propose that, in the first 15 seconds of every new experience, people are lazy, vain, and selfish. This is not intended as cynical jibe at humanity.

When I was a kid working at Burger King, the minimum wage was $2.75 an hour.

This year, I was invited to present at the annual LeWeb conference in Paris where entrepreneurs, geeks, investors, and brands assemble to discuss the state and future of tech. Having celebrated its 10th anniversary, I was asked to focus my presentation on “The Next 10 Years.

A little over two years ago, my assistant and I snuck into the office after hours and painted quotes of famous people’s thoughts about failure, from Winston Churchill (“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”) to Sofia Loren (“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays f

There are many lessons we can learn from The Game of Thrones..

PARIS – Mobile, big data..

You read that right. CEO.

The Korean company with 3 CEOs recently overtook Apple by revenue and now seriously threatens it in the post-Jobs era. 2 questions: So who actually is the best company today? Who is going to win going forward? Let’s do a quick comparison on product innovation, CEOs and leadership, brand and design,

I’ve seen the future of Facebook, and it is..

I visited the Detroit area recently for a meeting of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Our host was Utica Community Schools, a district serving 28,600 students in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Ever since I started my second business, a SaaS company for recruitment, people show a lot of interest in what I am doing and are mostly very enthusiastic. However, they rarely show real interest to invest.

If you sell to businesses, winning new clients can often require face-to-face meetings at the very end of the process. You navigate through the request-for-proposal, you make the preliminary list, and then (hurray!) the client wants you to meet with them face to face, so you can present your argumen

Back in the 1980s, a brave new business model emerged, allowing customers to rent movies overnight for a reasonable price. The company was called Blockbuster.

In the summer of 1981, The Corcoran Group was a tiny company in the big bad world of New York City real estate. Despite the money I spent every month on advertising to build our brand, the giant companies were always quoted on TV and in print whenever there was a story on real estate.

Quietly mentioned in yesterday's press conference about Google's Android update is a new feature that will change the way people use their mobile phones, search deep-linking. With KitKat, Google is applying its world-class crawling and search technology to the content and data within mobile applicat

Last year, I set out to come up with a single sentence that could guide both my career and personal decisions. It turned out to be, Be generous and expert, trustworthy and clear, open-minded and adaptable, persistent and present.

Every Friday evening, the Pulse team gets together for 30 minutes to step back and debrief. The week is usually filled with a ton of sprints, emergencies and fire drills, so these 30 minutes end up being a crucial break from the craziness.

Let’s face it…we have a relationship problem with our phones. According to a 2012 Time magazine study of 5,000 international cell phone or smartphone owners: 84 percent said that they could not go a single day without their cellphones.

I first started working for an airline straight out of university. Growing up in working-class Dublin, my parents took multiple jobs to support me and my three brothers, and they were strict about the value of education.

Over the last year, I (and many of my colleagues) have spent a lot of time talking about the Internet of Everything (IoE) and how it’s transforming our world. I thought, however, it would be good to pause in this blog and clarify what we mean by the “Internet of Everything” in just a little more det

Brazil is a nation best known around the world for its soccer chops, lush rainforest, abundant coffee exports, and vibrant carnivals. And soon, South America’s most populous country may also be recognized for its social media savvy.

By Jack and Suzy Welch Hiring? What a great problem to have. It can only mean your organization is growing, which is terrific, or that you’ve got an existing position you can now fill with an even bigger dose of talent than before.

"Leave me alone!" I said it to my boss at Radio Disney many years ago. I was a young, very high-performing salesperson, and he was my sales manager.

Leadership can be an incredibly hard concept to define and an even harder quality to learn. There are some who argue that great leaders are born but I have always believed that you can learn and develop the necessary skills through hard work and experience.

When India's Economic Times asked me to compare Google with Facebook, the comparison struck me as odd. Google is exploring uncharted territory and staking its claims to the next trillion-dollar market opportunities.

I was once asked to run a workshop for a small group of senior executives at a large, multi-division enterprise seeking to transform itself into a more customer-centric business. During a planning call with the company’s CEO, he asked me how he would know whether the workshop was a success.