Clips for Ian Mount

My writing career really started at the Philadelphia Inquirer (here are the only two clips I could find online), then took me to SmartMoney.com (clips), and finally to the now-defunct Business 2.0 (clips). Since March 2003, I’ve been freelancing for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NPR, New York, Food & Wine, Foreign Policy, Monocle, Wired, The Guardian, Budget Travel, Fortune Small Business (FSB), Inc., Time, The Chicago Tribune, Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Time Out New York and others. Here's a Google search on me. Recent freelance articles not linked to here include over 60 short Wall Street Journal pieces--among them an April 2008 Q&A with Outkast member 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—as well as an gig as a Gridskipper contributor. And now, freelance pieces available online, by year:

2008

“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 the “Slump-busting strategies” package 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.