40 under 40!

To date, I haven’t  posted any of the radio, newspaper, or tv coverage that’s found it’s way to me since The Apprentice. Mostly because it was all so random and I never really found it that interesting. But Advertising Age just announced their “40 under 40” list, and I’m quite honored (and surprised) to be […]

Surya on Marketing: Facebook/MySpace

This post is from: Surya on Marketing (suryaonmarketing.com) I’m making a prediction. By the end of 2007, there will be a slew of mainstream media stories on Facebook vs MySpace. I further believe that they will have the tone that the previous MySpace vs Friendster stories had: breathless accounts of how Friendster (and this time, […]

Surya on Marketing: page views?

I’m going to cross-post this on suryasays.com and suryaonmarketing.com (SoM) I’m going to focus on two areas of marketing: general marketing fundamentals and technology marketing. To read why I’m doing this site, you’ll have to read the ABOUT page on SoM… Post follows… Page views? Page views? Every time I hear someone talk

Surya on The Apprentice: how it all began.

How did I end up on The Apprentice? This story is as interesting as anything that came after. It’s the first Thursday in the eighth month of 2004 in Cincinnati. I’d been working and living in Ohio for a little over a year and had just stumbled upon a newspaper article mentioning that the hottest […]

mallets.

i just spent nearly an hour looking for a mallet in my condo. It’s not a very big mallet. Nor a big condo. Yet it’s lost. Why do I own and need a mallet in the first place? My answer to that question is much less interesting than just letting the fact that I own […]