Comments on: Simple Advice for Youngins Pt. 1: Your Media Career = Frogger http://marcum.com/wp/media-career-advice-your-mediacareer-frogger Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:51:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Maryland Entrepreneur's Guide | Wiki Books | Educational Maryland http://marcum.com/wp/media-career-advice-your-mediacareer-frogger/comment-page-1#comment-14 The Maryland Entrepreneur's Guide | Wiki Books | Educational Maryland Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:31:06 +0000 http://marcum.com/wp/?p=330#comment-14 [...] Simple Advice for Youngins Pt. 1: Your Media Career = Frogger … [...] [...] Simple Advice for Youngins Pt. 1: Your Media Career = Frogger … [...]

]]> By: jpmarcum http://marcum.com/wp/media-career-advice-your-mediacareer-frogger/comment-page-1#comment-13 jpmarcum Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:43:19 +0000 http://marcum.com/wp/?p=330#comment-13 Thanks Mike - agreed - and definitely going to talk reputation at some point - actually one of my favorite quotes on the subject I heard at the Startups at Work event on Tacoda in October (some video here: <a href="http://startupatwork.org/video/when-the-fax-lady-sings/" rel="nofollow">http://startupatwork.org/video/when-the-fax-lad...</a>). Curt Viebranz made the excellent analogy that in our careers we're like boats leaving a wake with one side being accomplishments and the other relationships/reputation. That really stuck with me... Thanks Mike – agreed – and definitely going to talk reputation at some point – actually one of my favorite quotes on the subject I heard at the Startups at Work event on Tacoda in October (some video here: http://startupatwork.org/video/when-the-fax-lad...). Curt Viebranz made the excellent analogy that in our careers we're like boats leaving a wake with one side being accomplishments and the other relationships/reputation. That really stuck with me…

]]> By: jpmarcum http://marcum.com/wp/media-career-advice-your-mediacareer-frogger/comment-page-1#comment-12 jpmarcum Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:34:04 +0000 http://marcum.com/wp/?p=330#comment-12 you're right - while i think there are a number of other skills that are valuable (and will tackle more on <a href="http://www.p21.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.p21.org/</a> in another post) - i think the foundation on which it should all be built is self-reliance. you're right – while i think there are a number of other skills that are valuable (and will tackle more on http://www.p21.org/ in another post) – i think the foundation on which it should all be built is self-reliance.

]]> By: Mike Green http://marcum.com/wp/media-career-advice-your-mediacareer-frogger/comment-page-1#comment-11 Mike Green Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:26:18 +0000 http://marcum.com/wp/?p=330#comment-11 Paul - great to see you blogging, I look forward to reading. Given that this is "Pt. 1" perhaps you'll get to this, but to work within your metaphor I would suggest another bullet point... something that has to do with HOW you jump from car to truck to turtle.<br><br>It should go without saying but the ecosystem is such that this "how" -- and your conduct towards the other frogs and trucks en route -- will greatly impact your credibility, reputation and your ability to viably do what you're talking about here for the long term. Paul – great to see you blogging, I look forward to reading. Given that this is “Pt. 1″ perhaps you'll get to this, but to work within your metaphor I would suggest another bullet point… something that has to do with HOW you jump from car to truck to turtle.

It should go without saying but the ecosystem is such that this “how” — and your conduct towards the other frogs and trucks en route — will greatly impact your credibility, reputation and your ability to viably do what you're talking about here for the long term.

]]> By: jonsteinberg http://marcum.com/wp/media-career-advice-your-mediacareer-frogger/comment-page-1#comment-10 jonsteinberg Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:08:55 +0000 http://marcum.com/wp/?p=330#comment-10 I also like the lesson from the downturn that you're no safer at a big corp than a startup. Everyone is an entrepreneur, some just don't know it...who said that? I also like the lesson from the downturn that you're no safer at a big corp than a startup. Everyone is an entrepreneur, some just don't know it…who said that?

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