About two years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Toward a New Funding Model for Theater”. It turned out to be one of the more popular things I’ve written. Over time I’ve heard from theaters around the world experimenting with the ideas explored in that post. Here’s part of an email I got last month: [...]
Category Archives: Business
My Company Doesn’t Have to Cash Out to be Worth Something
July 6, 2011 – 12:48 pm
Hi. I’d like to take a moment to talk about technology entrepreneurship. First, the context A few days ago, Brian Sierakowski published an exit interview with Baltimore entrepreneur Paul Capestany. Paul (who, alas, I don’t personally know) is a smart fellow who recently decided to leave Baltimore to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams in San Francisco. [...]
In Which I Channel My Inner Jason Fried
November 15, 2010 – 8:26 am
Pulse is the latest news aggregation application exciting people on the iPad. (Is Flipboard not cool anymore? I can’t keep up with these things.) Reporting on the quick success of the application, The New York Times tells us: The company will also announce that it has raised $800,000 in venture capital, the first step in [...]
Your theater has a place. Why doesn’t your website?
September 30, 2010 – 2:44 pm
This morning I was reading this piece by Baltimore theater-maker and all-around-deep-thinker Tim Boucher. It reminded me of a story. A few years ago, my alma mater Carleton College rolled out an extensive redesign of their website. The design was driven not just by the aesthetic taste of talented designers, but also by extensive research. [...]
Columbia University thinks journalists should be able to program their own tools
September 27, 2010 – 2:27 pm
Well son-of-a-gun. This morning I finally got around to reading last week’s New York Times Sunday Magazine. Turns out the day I was busy building Seymour was the day this article appeared on my doorstep: And now, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is starting a dual-degree master’s program in journalism and computer science. [...]