Category Archives: technology
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
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Twitter’s Platform Mojo
Betaworks’ John Borthwick recently posted the informative Ongoing tracking of the real time web… Combined with Fred Wilson’s AVC post Twitter v. the Twitter Ecosystem, these two posts illustrate and highlight important learnings for startups and entrepreneurs everywhere. Those learnings … Continue reading
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Google & China: An Operator’s View
Google’s announcement Tuesday that it was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore was its second bombshell in a new 2010. (I count the first being the announcement of the Nexus One, which I think is very … Continue reading
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Channel marketing: What all marketing people can learn from social media
Founder’s Fund’s, Internet Mastermind, and friend, Dave McClure posted one of his periodic rants over on his blog. Good read, great font colors. When I read it, it got me reflecting on the value I’ve seen as a marketing professional … Continue reading
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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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I’d listen to Jon Stewart before Chris Anderson on fixing media’s business model
Image via Wikipedia TechCrunch summarizes Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson’s rules for pricing on online media by calling them “counterintuitive.” Author Erick Schoenfeld, writes that Mr. Anderson “articulated something that is now increasingly becoming obvious: As products go digital, their marginal … Continue reading
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Facebook’s Vanity URLs’ impact: web-based mail will be the big loser
Image via CrunchBase Like hundreds of thousands of others apparently, I grabbed a vanity URL On Facebook Friday night. (I’m www.facebook.com/jay.jamison.) As it was all the rage in the geekosphere, I was aware it was happening. As the Penguins had … Continue reading
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My Founder’s Institute Talk on Branding & Naming Your Startup
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking as a Mentor at Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded’s Founder’s Institute with entrepreneurial superstars James Hong and Bryan Thatcher. First off, before I get into the topic, let me say that I think the … Continue reading
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DriverSavers & Its Awesome Customer Experience
Cover of The Incredibles [UMD for PSP] This mail is a big shout out to the Incredible folks at DriverSavers, who saved over 20K of our photos from a HD and backup regimen that went horribly wrong. I also think … Continue reading
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What I’ll watch for with MySpace: progress on bite-size chunks
Tech Crunch’s article, MySpace Is In Real Trouble If These Page View Declines Don’t Reverse, provides a sobering view of the challenge in front of MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta and his newly installed exec team. I’m going to assume … Continue reading
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