\We’ve just launched our new website and with that comes the opportunity to kick-off our blog. After all this time, why the new site and blog? It’s our way of celebrating our 25 years in business. Yep, it was 1988 when it all began. Ronald Reagan was our president, the Hubble Space Telescope was put into operation, Stephen Hawking published ‘A Brief History of Time,’ and Rain Man and Die Hard were hit movies.
The timing to stretch my entrepreneurial wings was questionable since only 8 months earlier, in October 1987, we all witnessed with horror a stock market collapse of unprecedented size. The economy was headed downward. But passion and tenacity (and a bit of brashness) fueled my desire to forge forward with a new brand of PR. Nimble, creative and hungry we were a perfect match for young, bootstrapped tech companies. And it seemed technology was taking a turn for great things ahead as IBM introduced their Portable Personal System/2.
And so it began…