Today, National Geographic Has A Membership Side

I'm Not Sure I Knew What An Entrepreneur Was When I Was Ten, But I Knew That Starting Little Businesses And Trying To Sell Greeting Cards Or Newspapers Door-to-door Or Just Vending Machine Kind Of Thing Is.. There's Just Something Very Intriguing To Me About That.

It's Not About How To Get Started; It's About How To Get Noticed.

When I First Got Started In The Late '70s, Early '80s, And First Was Thinking About The Interactive World, I Believed So Fervently That It Was The Next Big Thing, I Thought It Would Happen Quickly.

When I Was Trying To Popularize The Concept Of The Internet - Ten Or 15 Years Ago - I Came Up With This Concept Of "the 5 Cs." Services Needed To Have Content, Context, Community, Commerce, And Connectivity. After That, When I Was Trying To Think Of What The Key Management Principles Were To Build Into The Culture, I Started Talking About The Ps. The P's Were Things Like Passion, Perseverance, Perspective And People. I Think The People Aspect Is Really The Most Important One.

At Aol, We Thought The Killer App Was People