Clips for Ian Mount
My
writing career really started at the Philadelphia
Inquirer, then took me to SmartMoney.com,
and finally to the now-defunct Business 2.0
(clips).
Since March 2003, my work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The
New York Times, The World, Here & Now, On The Media, Only A Game,
Slate, New York, Food & Wine,
Foreign Policy, Monocle, Wired, The Guardian,
Fortune Small Business (FSB), Inc., Time, Travel + Leisure and others. Recent
freelance articles not linked to here include over 60 short Wall Street
Journal pieces—among them an April 2008 Q&A
with Outkast’s Big Boi, a March 2006 bit on web-based
‘blooks’, a February 2005 “Cranky Consumer” about online service
agents and a January 2005 “Reinventing the Wheel” about high tech
tailgating gear. And now, freelance pieces available online, by year:
2010
A May 22 pre-World Cup profile
of Argentine
national coach Diego Armando Maradona on the NPR/WBUR radio show Only A Game; “Tips
for Increasing Sales in International Markets” in the April 22 New York Times; a small business guide
on business
succession planning in the March 18 New
York Times; “Fan
violence infects Argentine soccer,” on the March 9 edition of The World; the non-fiction book “THE
LAST VINEYARD: Taming Argentina's Wild West and Putting Malbec on the Map,”
sold to W.W.
Norton at the end of January; “Argentina's
central bank in conflict,” on the January 27 edition of Marketplace Morning Report; “Nightlife
in Buenos Aires,” in the February Budget
Travel; “Africans
tough it out in Argentina,” on the January 5 edition of Marketplace.
2009
A
December 30 New York Times web piece
on small
firms that went out of business in 2009; the Baja part of Budget Travel’s online package Top
Budget Travel Destinations for 2010; “How did blocking traffic become Argentina's
favorite way to protest?”, a December 4 piece in Slate; a piece on whether
entrepreneurs are born or made in the December/January FSB; “Roadblocks
in Buenos Aires,” a November 16 segment on the public radio show The World; “The
government's fuzzy small biz math,” “Selling
health tips to globe trotters” and an essay on how
small businesses are handling the slow recovery in the November FSB; “Small
business insurance Rx,” a round-up of new
small business tax bills, a profile of a mobile
video game arcade franchise, and a piece on a “green”
disposable BBQ grill hitting the US market, in the October FSB; a September 19 story about US Open winner
Juan Martín Del Potro’s hometown on the NPR/WBUR radio show Only A Game; “Silicon
Buenos Aires” and nine mini-profiles of expat
entrepreneurs in Argentina’s capital, “Small
business borrowers get creative” and pieces on chemical
analysis outsource company Chemir, a bill proposing a simpler
home office deduction, and a study debunking the entrepreneur
whiz kid myth in the September FSB;
“Gov.
policy limits Argentine beef market,” a July 17 story on the public
radio show Marketplace; “Getting
small biz contracts to small businesses” in the July/August FSB; the Mexico City part of this
July/August Budget Travel package on
“Cool
Hunting 2009”; a piece in the June FSB about how accounting
firm Clark Nuber increases staff loyalty; “Tough times for Argentina’s
president,” a May 20 radio piece on The World; this May 9 Slate
piece on why immigrants move to the
Falkland Islands; a brief on Buenos
Aires watch repair shop L’Elysée in the April Monocle; an April FSB feature on Jet Blue founder David
Neeleman’s new Brazilian Airline; the Falkland
Islands cover story and web
slideshow in the March Monocle; a
mini-profile of a doggy
DNA company in the March FSB;
“Cachi: Argentina’s Mountain Retreat,”
in the February Travel + Leisure; a
brief on the state
of Argentine beef in the February Monocle; February FSB pieces about free Web-based travel assistant TripChill,
small businesses video advert creator SpotRunner,
the situation of For
Sale By Owner (FSBO) websites, and Eye5,
an unorthodox modeling agency that’s thriving in hard times.
2008
Mini-profiles
of the new GPS
tour guide company BarZ Adventures and the calorie
tracker Fitbit in the December/January FSB;
a dissection of tango
hall etiquette in the December/January Budget
Travel; “Capital Gains,”
a Buenos Aires feature profile in the December Continental magazine; “Small
Biz State of the Union,” the lead essay, a debate between business
authors Scott
Shane and Ken Blanchard, and “Fly the
friendly skies - in a zeppelin,” from the November FSB; an October 24 The World radio story about Argentina nationalizing its
private pensions; “Latin
America’s commodity cushion,” an October 20 radio piece on The World; an October 16 Here and Now radio
story about Americans
following the Presidential debates in Buenos Aires; a profile of Harvard econ
prof David Laibson in Wired’s
October “Smart List”; the
skinny on Brazilian
beach resort São Miguel Dos Milagres in the October Travel + Leisure; a bit on personal
aircraft pioneer Icon Aircraft in the October FSB; a feature on the Buenos
Aires art and design scene in issue 11 of Crystallized; “First
Mate to the Client,” a September FSB
profile of customer-service obsessed Kadey-Krogen Yachts; a July 8 CNNMoney.com profile of Sandy
Baruah, the newly nominated SBA administrator; the June FSB lead essay about the IRS’s
increased auditing of small businesses; a June 20 The World radio story on Rosario, the Argentine hometown of Ernesto “Che” Guevara
that recently dedicated a huge brass Che monument; a June 9 The World radio piece on Argentine
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s plunging popularity; a profile
of Argentine provocateur/journalist Jorge
Lanata in the June Monocle;
“Seeing
Argentina”, a travel piece in the May/June issue of Traveler from AAA; “Would
you eat 2,900 calorie cheese fries?”, the lead essay in the May FSB; “Manufacture
and Sell Anything — in Minutes” in the April Wired; a April FSB mini-profile of the new Skins
Footwear company; a March 28 WSJ feature
on the “vineyard
estate” trend in Mendoza, Argentina; “A legal
crusade against Ladies' Night” and the opening essay in package of slump-busting
business strategies in the March FSB;
“New
franchise rule: More disclosure, same high risks,” a February 29
piece on CNNMoney.com; a February FSB bit about the comeback of the You Don't Know
Jack game; “Rebirth
of a Bohemian Barrio,” a piece about the artistic revitalization of
Buenos Aires’s Boedo neighborhood in the January 27 New York Times; a reprint of my
September 2007 FSB story on U.S.
winemakers in Mendoza, Argentina, in the January 21 Fortune; “The Other
Riviera,” a January 12 WSJ travel piece on José Ignacio,
Uruguay.
2007
“GPS
for your shoes” in the December/January FSB; a “Trip
Coach” (no byline) on visiting Buenos Aires for the December/January
issue of Budget Travel; a November FSB piece on how the mortgage
crisis is hurting small businesses, an expansion on the August 30
CNNMoney.com article I wrote; an October 25 piece on BBC/PRI radio program The World on Argentine First Lady
Cristina Kirchner’s run
for president; an October Food &
Wine feature on the “new
Mendoza”; short bits on new
gift certificate regulations that hurt small businesses and businesses
using new
health insurance carrots (and sticks) in the October FSB; a piece in the September 24 Guardian on the Gay World
Cup in Buenos Aires; “U.S.
wine-makers flock to Argentina” in the September FSB; “The
credit crunch and small business,” an August 30 piece on CNNMoney.com; Sammy
Hagar sells his tequila company, a pro-small business contracting bill that
might
not do anything and an essay about entrepreneurial
philanthropy (including two
illustrative profiles)
in the July/August FSB; an analysis
of Argentine
First Lady Cristina Kirchner’s presidential candidacy in the July 8 Chicago Tribune; also on July 8, a
review of Buenos Aires’s 248
Finisterra boutique hotel in The New York Times; an as-told-to profile
of Jaime Lerner, the former mayor and urban planner of forward-thinking
Curitiba, Brazil in the July Monocle
and a Buenos
Aires city guide by Cintra Scott and I, posted on the Monocle website July 6; buying
cowhide rugs in Buenos Aires in the June 3 New York Times; how shipping companies are funding
small businesses and the prognosis (bad) for an
angel investor tax cut in the June FSB;
Buenos Aires’s boom as a film
production location and an analysis of Cristina
Kirchner’s style in the May Monocle;
a merger between two
medical advertising firms in the May FSB;
a May/June Foreign Policy piece on
the high
prices of high technology in Latin America; the opening essay in the April FSB looking at IRS plans to hit
hard on small businesses to close the ‘tax gap’ of unpaid
income taxes, as well as a short bit on a battle
between a diner and city hall in Stamford, CT and another on the San
Jose, CA municipal VC fund; a March FSB
piece about famed
sport statistician Dr. Bob Stoll’s take on March Madness office
pools, as well as one on an online
business license seller and an obit of world’s oldest person (and
entrepreneur) Emma
Faust Tillman; a feature
profile of Chile’s first family of wine in April’s Food & Wine; “36 Hours:
Buenos Aires” in the February 4 New
York Times; a January/February FSB
story profiling an inter-family feud of Philadelphia
cheesesteak pioneers and another on whether new
federal contracting rules will actually help small businesses.
2006
A
December 17 New York Times travel
piece on the rise of the
private/hidden club in Buenos Aires; a quick profile in the December FSB of a start-up that makes ornaments
for Crocs clogs—and sold for $20 million; “Buenos
Aires…Then What?”, a piece about three trips outside of the
Argentine capital, in the November issue of Budget
Travel (and here’s a November 7 online
chat I did about the story); a roundup of an M&A
boom in the education market in the November FSB; an October 17 piece in the Wall
Street Journal on Buenos Aires’s boutique
hotel trend; an
obit of Alex Cushing, the founder of the Squaw Valley ski resort, and a
story on the push in Massachusetts—and other states—to
expand paid family leave to small businesses, in the October FSB; a September 3 piece on Santiago,
Chile in the Travel section of the New
York Times; stories on a USB
coupon scanner, innovative small
biz energy saving techniques, and two
obits in the September FSB; a
piece on “nexus
taxes” and bits on Dagwood’s
Sandwich Shoppes and Ambassadors
Group (a cover piece) in the July FSB;
a bit on the Palacio Duhau
Hotel in the June Travel + Leisure;
a piece on battling
the 6% real estate commission (and two
others)
in the May FSB; a piece on the dearth
of handymen and a bit on biodiesel
in the April FSB; an April 2 travel piece on
Buenos Aires in the New York Times;
a piece of small businesses exporting
to China and two
other
stories in the March FSB; a feature
on New
Yorkers living large in Buenos Aires in the February 27 New York; a February Student Traveler piece, co-written with
Cintra, on learning
a language with your significant other; and a riff on why
airport food sucks and three other pieces (1,
2,
3)
in the February FSB.
2005
A
December 9 story about Buenos
Aires poverty tours on the NPR
show “On the Media”; a blow-by-blow on an
ongoing battle in the model train demimonde and a profile of five companies
who found opportunity
in Hurricane Katrina in the December/January FSB; a profile of a guy who’s opening
rent-a-nap rooms in the Minnesota’s Mall of America—called, yes,
“minneNAPolis”—and three other pieces (1,
2,
3)
in the November FSB; a story about
the latest sign of the housing bubble—people
funding new businesses with home equity loans—and five more bits (1,
2,
3,
4,
5)
in October’s FSB; an item on
three companies that benefit
from government regulations and two
other
pieces in the September FSB; a week
(ending July 1) spent guest-editing
travel blog Gridskipper; a piece on new
telephone technology in the July FSB;
a feature dissection of NYC superbodega Duane Reade
in the June 6 New York magazine; a
short piece on a mobile
pizzeria and three
other
items
from the June FSB; a feature on
PRN—“The Biggest TV
Network You’ve Never Heard Of”—in the June Inc.; a short piece on the American
Hockey League’s surge at the NHL’s expense and three other bits
in the May FSB (1,
2,
3);
the April FSB lead essay (“Death
of the IPO Dream”), a Q&A with TheStreet.com
founder Jim Cramer and two
other
pieces in the same issue; the opening essay (“The
Return of the Lone Inventor”), an interview with Yugo-importer
Malcolm Bricklin and four short bits (1,
2,
3,
4)
in the March FSB; the March Real Simple cover
story; a feature profile of InPhonic founder/CEO (and friend of John
Sculley and Jack Kemp) David
Steinberg in the March Inc.; a
review of the Sony
VAIO U750P in FSB; and "Icebreaking for
Geeks" in the January Fast Company.
2004
A
feature interview
with Mannheim Steamroller front man Chip Davis in the December Inc.;
an article on deciding between salary
and stock options in the November Business 2.0; three pieces in the
October Inc. cover package (1, 2, 3);
a review of the 'high-end retail' design used by Oregon-based Umpqua
Bank and a critique of Target's
failed smart card experiment, both in the September Business 2.0; a
piece on a NYC
clergy youth movement in Time Out New York; four short profiles of entrepreneurs
who cashed out, from the August Inc. cover package; a profile of the
founder of an NYC
online "Wiki" encyclopdia in Time Out New York; an Inc.
piece about the gadget obsessions of a fireworks company
CEO; the story of New Yorkers who tried to sublet their apartments during
the Republican
National Convention, from Time Out New York; a piece in Inc.
on Boingo CEO Sky
Dayton's surfing habit; a short profile of JetBlue founder and CEO David Neeleman
in Inc. magazine's 25th anniversary issue; "Exploding
the Myths of Stadium Naming," in Business 2.0; a Time Out
New York investigation into New York's Chinatown
mafia bus war; a piece on innovative non-profit management at the PICA art space
in Fast Company; and the January Inc. magazine Entrepreneurs of the
Year cover story.
2003
An
Inc. feature on Lil Lovell, the woman behind Coyote Ugly (the bar
+ movie); a preview of the theatrical
remake of the Patrick Swayze vehicle Road House in Time Out New
York; a Time profile of Urban
Cowboy Mickey Gilley; a New
York Times City Section story about Lower East Side
murals; a short Inc. business fetish piece;
and a feature in Maxim about how the Corporate
Mafia filched your cash during the Internet boom.