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Blackbox Republic and the sex positive community

July 15, 2009 Innovation

Before anyone thinks that is one of Howlett’s deliberately provocative headlines, it’s not. Earlier this week Sam Lawrence called me up to talk about Blackbox Republic, a startup he and April Donato have co-founded. Sam is one of my all time favourite marketers who takes creativity to a level few can even contemplate. In a [...]

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Out of adversity comes an octopus

April 15, 2008 General

Totally off topic but too good to miss. Sam Lawrence had a nasty accident recently and broke his ankle rather badly. If you don’t know Sam he’s the highly creative chief marketing officer for Jive Software, a company I’ve grown to like in the last few months. Rather than play the sympathy card, Sam chose [...]

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