November 2009
25 posts
Thinking about advisors →
Advisors can be an important part of any startup as they build their service, make decisions, and decide what to focus their time and energy on. Image from Shutterstock One thing to…
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Digging the #wearehunted Remix chart http://bit.ly/8ZvOgu
Nov 28th
Happy Thanksgiving 2009 →
Happy Thanksgiving! I just finished watching the Thanksgiving day parade which never gets old. Today marks an important time to reflect on everything you have to be thankful for and I certainly…
Nov 26th
“Can you send that logo over in electron form, at the highest granularity you...”
– (via clientsfromhell) I can almost imagine the person who took down this note from someone else and had to repeat it to the designer…
Nov 26th
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Nov 25th
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Steve Blank event in NYC – Entrepreneurs... →
Steve Blank spoke to a group of entrepreneurs On November 12th 2009, about the Customer Development Process and running a lean startup. It was a great night with great questions throughout – I hope…
Nov 23rd
My friend @spencerfry wrote about why three co-founders is better than two http://bit.ly/3Qa4LR
Nov 19th
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Never Launch, Just Iterate →
Image by digitaltree515 via Flickr Last week I hosted a group of NYC entrepreneurs who came out to hear from Steve Blank. It was a great event and I am working on getting…
Nov 17th
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Voice Blogging Test →
click the image to listen! Auto-transcription: This is a test audio post on marketing.fm using the twilio a API and hopefully this works and you hear the post. The above post was done…
Nov 14th
Does Page Rank matter? →
Image via CrunchBase When consulting with companies about “how their website is doing” one of the first things people checkout is the Google PR or Page Rank of the…
Nov 12th
Nov 12th
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What's free at Web 2.0 Expo NY?
whitneymcn: I’m in—maybe there’s a pretty awesome lunch/coffee/beer interval lurking somewhere in next week? Interesting. Anybody else? jenrobinson: Registering for an Expo Hall Only pass (free with code web2ny09ema1) gives you a lot more than you bargained for. Aside from access to the Expo Hall floor and 50+ exhibitors, the pass gets you into all this: • All Keynotes • All Sponsored...
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
Google slashes storage prices, offering 20GB for... →
Finally!
Nov 11th
Launching the new USV.com →
I was very happy earlier this week to launch an updated version of the Union Square Ventures website. The site was designed by Phoebe Espiritu who did a great job working with our team and…
Nov 11th
Motorola Droid Review →
I started using the Motorola Droid on Friday and have been using it as my primary device all weekend. In a sense this is a comparison against other phones out there, but primarily…
Nov 9th
Google Dashboard →
Image via CrunchBase The amount of services I use through Google is now summed up in a simple dashboard showing everything. They sum it up as transparency, choice, and…
Nov 6th
Service vs. hospitality 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do http://bit.ly/3YWIZY
Nov 6th
Data exhaust and web services http://bit.ly/4tB33R
Nov 5th
Data Exhaust →
One of the most powerful things I have learned over the past year is the immense amount of data that comes out of using a computer system, specifically some form an online web based…
Nov 5th
An evening with Steve Blank in NYC →
Steve Blank, author of Four steps to the Epiphany, will be joining a group of customer development mavens on November 12, 2009 in NYC. He will be discussing the CDP (customer development…
Nov 4th