Unleashing the Ideavirus

Chris Meyer
co-wrote Blur
among other things, and despite his protestations, is beginning to share my hairline
. Jay
Levinson
is the original marketing bigthinker, and you’re selling yourself short if you haven’t
picked up his books lately. And finally, 
Don Peppers 
and
 Martha Rogers
who continue to
be way ahead of me and everyone else in how they’re deconstructing and reconstructing the
way we think about marketing.

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7. The guys at Peanut Press are terrific. If you’ve got a Palm, point your browser to
www.peanutpress.com
and go get some books for it. Thanks, Mike!
I’d like also like to thank Susan Greenspan Cohen, Bob Dorf, Louise Wannier, Alison
Heisler and the wonderful people at 
Fast Company
(especially the incredible Alan Webber)
for advice, insight and encouragement as I plowed through this manifesto. And thanks to my
role model and friend Lester Wunderman.
Jerry Colonna, Fred Wilson, Bob Greene, Tom Cohen, Seth Goldstein and their friends,
partners and associates at Flatiron Partners have been generous enough to give me a platform
and a lab to mess with a lot of new thinking. They certainly keep me on my toes, and are
nice enough to sit through my endless slide shows. Fred Wilson and Tom Cohen, though,
deserve extra thanks. Without the two of them, my internet company would have never
thrived, and you wouldn’t be reading this book. Steve Kane and Stu Roseman are, amazingly
enough, about to throw themselves into this maelstrom. Can’t wait.
Thanks to Don Epstein and David Evenchick at the Greater Talent Network in New York
City for believing in me and then being true to their word and keeping me busy.
For the last year, two people have done everything to keep things in perspective for me…
Lisa Gansky and my Dad. Thanks, guys.
Of course, as always, the real joy in my life comes from my wife Helene and our little
entrepreneurs, Alex and Max.