Hint – it’s not to sell $17,000 watches. The reviews are in and the Apple Watch is predictably getting a wide range of reviews typical of Apple products from both fan boys and haters alike. But most curious is the Apple Watch Edition. A number of reviews I’ve read have panned the watch as too expensive for a device that will be obsolete in a year(HBR gives it a D for pricing...

I didn’t intend to go into marketing. It kind of happened by accident, which is how many of my career shifts have occurred. I tend to keep myself open to possibilities and I’ve had good intuition about when to make a career pivot. It was early 2006 when I first made the pivot into marketing. At the time I was trying to become a Systems Consultant, which was part outside enterprise...

The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is a major source of reference for this kind of work.

I went to the Startup Grind conference in San Francisco earlier this year and it’s one of the better ones that I’ve gone to. After a day of meeting some colleagues in the valley I got settled in for the opening keynote. Once the main sessions were done, Derek Anderson the founder of Startup Grind did something unique. He gave the microphone to the audience and asked a few people in...