Taiwan Brown

moth:

[Originally posted on the Next New Networks blog.]

We’re happy to be debuting our first series dedicated to the business community: Small Business Rules, with Lindsay Campbell.

The first two episodes will be available shortly on the Open Forum, a new site from American Express dedicated to small business owners and managers, and every week, Lindsay and our team are going to meet and profile some of the most innovative small businesses in the U.S., and get them to share the rules that they’ve learned to live by in order to grow and succeed.

We’re especially excited to be working with Lindsay Campbell, whose work we’ve long been a fan of, including the pioneering web series Wallstrip and Moblogic. As a producer and host on the show, she brings an experience reporting on businesses and producing in the field that few people in online TV have, and she’s working with an all-star team of Next New Networks producers who have worked with us over the past few years to deliver one of our highest production quality series to date.

First up this week on the series: Thrillist, a daily newsletter for men serving nine cities and hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and Gotham Dream Cars, a company that lets people rent super-exotic luxury cars by the day. In the coming weeks, some of the businesses we’ll be profiling include CafeMom, Etsy, and the Myriad Restaurant Group, and we’ve got lots more to come.

We’re excited to be launching the first web video series dedicated to small businesses, which is a subject near and dear to our hearts as entrepreneurs, and we’re always excited and inspired to hear how other business owners and managers deal with common challenges we share.  Serving underserved audiences is the core of what we set out to do at Next New Networks — in that way, it’s in keeping with past networks we’ve launched like ThreadBanger, Indy Mogul or Fast Lane Daily.  And we’re learning that the business stories that we love to read about really come to life in web video in a way we’ve never seen before, and that every business owner we’ve met so far has had valuable and original rules to share.

I hope you’ll enjoy the series as much as we’ve enjoyed making it, and if you’re an entrepreneur yourself, you’ll get involved in the conversation with us and tell us about your small business rules. You can follow the series for updates at twitter.com/smallbrules.

wooo! Lindsay Campbell is back! :)