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This is Part 1 of a series of posts explaining my dive back into the consulting space. If you’re interested in hearing how I could collaborate with your business, stay tuned for future posts, or contact me at nate (@) innonate.com

In the last few weeks, I’ve been approached and encouraged by a number of people [...]

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Quick, what are two words which describe Gary Vaynerchuk’s style of marketing?
If you guessed “Willy Wonka,” you get a prize.
Last week, I was in Chicago for the TechCocktail Conference. After the conference, and before the after-party, Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk and I headed to a nearby Borders to pick up a few board-games for post [...]

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As I’ve written about before, my AppleTV has changed how I consume content in my living room. The point here is not that it’s changed how I consume content — no — it’s that it’s brought the new ways I’ve been learning to consume media over the last 5 years into my living room, [...]

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As I talk about the BIG VISION for BricaBox, I often find myself repeating a definition for “social content website” — because that’s the scope of our platform, and those are the kinds of sites we set out to power.
Currently, my best definition of “social content” is this:
“Websites where a group of people collaborate on [...]

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I just read Fred Wilson’s latest post, “As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo’s Board,” which was republished on Silicon Alley Insider.
Anyway, I thought that while we were all suggesting new board members for the bruised-up tech company we’re all coming around to love (I am), we should put all the nominations in one place [...]

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A few weeks ago, I got to sit down with Valerie Gurka of FearlessBusinessTV and talk about BricaBox and the trends we’re following. You can view the video here or below.

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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up 
like a raisin in the sun? 
Or fester like a sore– 
And then run? 
Does it stink like rotten meat? 
Or crust and sugar over– 
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags 
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
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All for not!
Remember how Michael Arrington had big big [...]

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Is Gary the Cramer of Wine, or is Cramer the Vaynerchuk of Stocks?
I’ll take the latter, and it sounds like Cramer will too:

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This is just another great example of how my life seems to parallel that of Derek Zoolander. (pop-culture reference here)
I just read Catherine Taylor’s worriment that niche social networks will end up in that classic advertising hard-spot between scale and target.
Her concern: commoditized ad inventory does poorly in niche communities and ignore the value of a niche, [...]

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Today is GaryVee-Day — the day his book officially comes out. This post is to be your guide to news, media and events surrounding his book’s release.
Events:
Last night, we celebrated the book release along with Gary’s appearance on Conan, at bounce. Here’s the Conan footage and a video from the event.

Today he signs his book [...]

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