August 2009
24 posts
Overnight Success? Think again →
I love the chart below showing years to revenue for many large companies. I also love the chart from tableausoftware.com and I am looking forward to trying out creating my own visual datasets. The…
Marketing.fm is growing up (or year 3) →
My friend Lee Jones and I started Marketing.fm in March of 2006, which feels like a decade ago.
Since then a lot has happened and since I missed providing a 3 year birthday update this year I…
Outreach, PR firms, and Blogging →
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Since starting this blog I have been getting an increasing amount of PR firms pitching various products, promotions, companies, and…
Google Allowing other Ad Networks to run in... →
Image via CrunchBase
Google announced a new way to maximize revenue potential with current ad placements by allowing participating ad networks to run ads in current…
Google Apps Connector For BES →
As you may know I have been exploring Google Apps Premiere edition for an email solution.
Recently Google finally completed the final step necessary to move over to a pure Google Apps Email…
The Business Stuff →
Since I began working at USV I have heard the importance of backing a team of technical co-founders that can code and iterate fast. I believe in this thesis and have seen its importance up close…
Predictably a Good Referral (Predictably... →
Cover via Amazon
I recently finished Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely after it got high praise in my office from Andrew and Albert. It is a great book and one…
Hackable Business Development
jonsteinberg:
People on the business side of internet software, constantly bemoan their inability to code. I’ve been guilty at times of the frequent refrain, “My kingdom for the ability to code.” However, I’ve found over the past year that the emergence of APIs coupled with eLance (or oDesk or one of the other contractor platforms) have made this expression of exasperation largely hot air.
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I am off the grid for the next few days
Designing for Social Traction →
It seems to be presentation week at Marketing.fm but as I find great resources I like to share and archive them here. This one comes from social web design expert Bokardo. I am sorry I missed…
I like the new Google Reader “send to various service” feature http://bit.ly/PAC4W
Playing around with EC2 for a project - its a bit overwhelming and complicated but pretty awesome
Corporate Culture (NetFlix) →
I have worked at a few different companies since I started my career, while in college at many traditional organizations and after college at a few startup environments. I came across this…
In Philly today @dreamitventures for a demo day
Free and paid services I use →
As a follow up to the Wordpress plugins post and my 10 tools for web traffic research I wanted to share some services that I use, and pay for.
Disclaimer: where possible I use…
Time warner Internet service outage again, let’s see if Verizon DSL is up for the connectivity challenge today
My blackberry 8900 battery life seems to be getting worse
Looking forward to seeing the #launchbox demos today at the Cooley office in VA
Thinkbait →
I am really not a fan of writing LinkBait and truly try not to participate in writing things for the sole purpose of getting links even though it has been blessed by folks like Matt Cutts. I…
Technology should explain itself - iPhone sales tactics vs Palm Pre sales tactics http://bit.ly/RgAIs
Stuck on Glue →
I referred to Participation as being an important part of the online ecosystem last year and those thoughts still resonate with me almost a year later.
I have been playing around with the latest
Great Wordpress Plugins I Use →
I have helped a few folks setup new blogs, like my friend Andrew Bolson and often I am asked how to get the best out of using a platform like Wordpress.
The plugins I use and get the most value…
Great Wordpress Plugins I use http://bit.ly/mfB8u