Virtual Entrepreneur

The Power Of Going Alone

Ad Age covers the departures of Robert Scoble, Om Malik, and Thomas Hawk to smaller ventures that’ll end up being bigger for them:

In the last 2 weeks, Robert Scoble, Om Malik and Thomas Hawk quit their jobs in favor of pioneering careers. Big deal. So did probably hundreds of other Americans, right? But unlike the former 3, the latter hundreds didn’t find their opportunities by 1st becoming household brand names online.

Messrs. Scoble, Malik and Hawk respectively, a Microsoft technologist, a Business 2.0 magazine writer and an investment-adviser-turned-photographer-may be relatively unknown names in the general populace. But they are among the elite in the blog world. (BuzzMachine)