Mason Pelt

Tag: tech crunch

  • The Newchip Startup Accelerator Is Burning To Death

    The Newchip Startup Accelerator Is Burning To Death

    I’ve been at Push ROI for over eight years, but every few years I kick a few tires in consideration of a career change. Last year I applied for a job at Newchip, an Austin, TX-based startup accelerator. The application process led me to believe I’d end up writing about a scam. I wasn’t a…

  • Brands As People, People As Brands

    Brands As People, People As Brands

    People strive to be brands creating a loss of self, and often a loss of any potential brand. Brands try to be people, in programmatic and contrived ways. Both are organic as a Twinkie asking how the fellow kids are doing. On a call for a long-dead startup building its empire on Google+, someone, a…