Do people buy your premise?

Johnny Carson was one of the pioneers of the live TV skit (he was doing it when Lorne Michaels was still in diapers), and he had a famous phrase about putting on a successful skit: “If you buy the premise, you buy the bit.” Any screenwriter or playwright...

The secret to being in business 10 years is

More than a decade ago I started my first business, an ad agency. This was long before we could even imagine building an online event management program or venue software tool like Planning Pod, but it definitely was the first step in our journey. Back then, I was...