I’m not a tank expert. But I am capable of both levels of pedanticism, and passive indifference few mortals can ever reach. Context determines when each personality trait comes out. An apartment isn’t a house, but if someone invites you over “to the house” for dinner, quibbling about names of…

Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, and Charlie Javice share a few things in common. They all seem to have committed fraud; tho a court of law convicted only Homes at the time of writing. The three are also Forbes ’30 Under 30′ Alumni. Forbes is the best in the business at…

So your business is growing, and you’re conducting interviews, big congrats. Here are some tips to improve the job interview process over the standard “so tell me about yourself” line of questions. …

Ed Note: This article was written by Push ROI’s Mason Pelt, and first published in Business 2 Community on February 1, 2017. Most articles about hiring or getting hired are from the perspective of the business. These articles will either advise job seekers how to apply or will attempt to…

Ed Note: This article was written by Push ROI’s Mason Pelt, and first published in Social Media Week on March 31, 2017 prior to the Adweek acquisition. Need some tools and tricks to promote your brand with PR? …

Ed Note: This article by Mason Pelt of Push ROI was first published in Business 2 Community on December 12, 2015. Photo by Nadir sYzYgY on Unsplash We’re coming upon the end of the year and a lot of people are planning to take the next steps toward starting a…

When someone I’m considering working with says, “we’re a family” or anything similar about their business relationships, I start backing away slowly. I’ve almost written this post a few times, but held off because well… family is an almost universal virtue. Although most families are located someplace along the dysfunctional…

It seems like I’ve been writing a lot about Musk. Objectively I, and most other writers have been. I cannot speak for others, but for me Musk is just an object lesson in the bad part of startup land. I’ve been around startups since I was a teenager. I’ve seen…