Category Archives: tech
Can You Handle the Truth? Advice for Founders
Always tell the truth, its the easiest thing to remember. — Glengarry Glen Ross I have started my second semester at the Founder Institute, Adeo Ressi‘s awesome incubator. It has been a blast so far, in my view, a lot … Continue reading
Filed under bootstrapping, entrepreneurship, free stuff for startups, tech, technology
Startup Revenue: Moats & Models
I’m giving a speech tomorrow at the Founder Showcase in Santa Clara. The topic is around building revenue for startups. The slides are here: These build on a prior talk I gave in 2009 on this topic, and I’m looking … Continue reading
Apple’s Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde Routine with Developers Continues
TechCrunch just announced that this is the year for Flash to come to the IPhone. (Oh, wait, it’s already kind of been there with YouTube, the world’s largest flash app, for the past 2 years, but whatever.) TC’s Erick Schonfeld … Continue reading
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The Google Phone: The Empire Strikes Back
This week, with much ballyho, Google announced its new superduperphone, the Nexus One. The product reviews are favorable, broadly speaking. This is particularly notable when one considers that it will invariably get compared with the iPhone (“have you friggin heard … Continue reading
How *NOT* to demo a product: Bezos’ Kindle 2 Demo on Jon Stewart
I can *totally see* his marketing people pitching Amazon Founder & CEO on the brilliance of the idea. Pitch the Kindle 2 on Jon Stewart. The audience demographic is spot on – smart, relatively wealthier 18-34 year old males. The … Continue reading
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Do the ad campaign first
Seth Godin discusses an interesting question today on his blog: “Which comes first, the product or the marketing?” He argues that marketing (broadly defined) should come before the product. In other words, define marketing by Peter Drucker’s standard of “creating … Continue reading
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New FriendFeed Search bring FF a lot of promise
FriendFeed launched a new advanced search capability today, reported on here. I think it opens up the promise of FriendFeed to expand into something far more impactful and useful than it already was. To date, I’ll confess that I’ve not … Continue reading
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Six Ways to Use Facebook to Look for Job
My recent post questioning whether Facebook was taking out LinkedIn generated many comments. This morning, I saw that Guy Kawasaki had put together “Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job.” As a relatively heavy user of both services, … Continue reading
Filed under career management, social media, tech, technology
Is Facebook taking out LinkedIn?
As a mid- to late-thirties professional in the high-tech field, I have been a long-time member and user of LinkedIn. In the past, it was a super useful service for me to get my professional profile out there, connect with … Continue reading
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Thinking Big
“Fortune favors the bold.” — Cicero Much is being written, presented, emailed, and blogged about the economic meltdown and the impacts it has on high tech startups and VC-based startup financing in particular. As someone who speaks with a number … Continue reading
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