About Ed Sussman

I am the CEO of Buzzr.com, a partnership with Lullabot to create a publishing platform enabling ordinary people, businesses and groups to create highly sophisticated, social media-rich websites. We’re doing this by creating a usability layer on top of open source Drupal.  I previously served as president of Mansueto Digital, where I ran the websites for Inc.com and FastCompany.com for five years (and founded FastCompany TV with Robert Scoble, IncTechnology.com & IncBizNet.com), and as executive vice president of Mansueto Ventures, overseeing business development, events (the Inc. 500/5000 conference) and digital media for Fast Company and Inc. magazines. We grew digital revenue 600% during my tenure to more than $10 million annually and business dev revenue 200% to about $3 million. My major initiatives included creating major social media presences for our brands, including, in 2007, relaunching FastCompany.com (on a Drupal platform) as an integrated journalism/community platform. I also created a major user-generated database/community for fast-growth private companies, culminating in the Inc. 5,000 and IncBiznet.com. I created the Inc. 5,000 as part of the latter.  My background is as a journalist (executive editor of Inc. and various positions at Worth, P.O.V., The Financial Times of London and the Wall Street Journal/Europe) and lawyer. I graduated Duke Law in 1992, first my class, and clerked for a federal district court and a federal appellate court judge.

As a consultant, on behalf of media companies and private investors, I’ve evaluated the digital properties of multi-platform content producers, especially publishers transitioning to greater digital presences. I also assist several early stage internet companies. My consulting services are described here

You can reach me at emsussman(at)gmail(dot)com or ed(at)lullabot(dot)com. My twitter is @edsussman

LinkedIn profile:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/edsussman

Articles

http://www.fastcompany.com/article/media-social

Interviews
http://beatblogging.org/2008/02/18/ed-sussman-what-magazine-websites-will-look-like-in-four-years/

Videos

http://www.beet.tv/2008/01/robert-scoble-w.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUSAk2Xko0

http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrpUSAk2Xko0

Podcasts

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/ed-sussman/