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Re: The Time Has Arrived For An Analog Revolution

Chris Hamoen — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:16:18 -0000

There is a resurgence in analog - especially boardgames/etc. But facebook's declining usage in a vacuum doesn't really prove anything - I could argue that the younger generation are all on snapchat, instagram, whatsapp, even wechat internationally. For the teens, snapchat in particular (some average 1 snap sent every 6 minutes for their waking life).

Re: Let’s Give William A Big Advance

Chris Hamoen — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:33:24 -0000

18k....suspiciously a book in the box fee. :) good luck - I hear great things about that service!

Re: AC Podcast: Mike Rohde on Sketchnoting

Chris Hamoen — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:45:27 -0000

As always - great podcast!

Re: Hailo Taxi app reportedly pulling out of North America, Toronto ‘service will continue’ and seeking a licensing deal

Chris Hamoen — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:46:43 -0000

This must be because of the effort they went to in becoming a licensed cab company. I'd bet that Toronto is profitable.

Re: Streetcarnage: Readers share tales of anguish riding TTC streetcars

Chris Hamoen — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:59:29 -0000

This was the plan - reading/email/etc during commute. Far more productivity. And that part is ok, except when you can't even raise your arm it's so packed.
A solution is to change working/travelling hours, but that is not fixing the cause - we are at a watershed moment in transit. People need to speak up.

Re: Streetcarnage: Readers share tales of anguish riding TTC streetcars

Chris Hamoen — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:34:06 -0000

This is entirely true. The streetcars are a disaster - just today at king/parliament at 7:45am, 4-5 streetcars were back to back, all 504. First one completely packed, the next 3 virtually empty. Many reasons why, but that is the result. A virtual train of streetcars with only the front car full.

As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't living and working on subway stops, you don't have reasonable access to consistent public transit.

When I switched from driving to TTC, I was excited about not having to drive anymore. But it's a terrible experience, and I am primarily on streetcars/subways in/close to downtown.

Re: Gardiner Expressway westbound lanes blocked after multi-vehicle crash

Chris Hamoen — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:34:25 -0000

The accident happened around me - literally. I was the only car around that wasn't hit. The Gardiner was iced over - the cars skated and played bumper cars. The problem wasn't the police taking time to arrive (was about 15 minutes for 1st on scene), it was the mess they had to clean up. First is EMS checking absolutely everyone (as they should), then the plans start on how to get the cars out. I was able to squeeze out after about 90 minutes.

All in all I'd say they did their best, in difficult conditions. Tough to see it moving faster while taking the appropriate pre-cautions.

Here is a video I took of the aftermath - but it doesn't show a number of other cars that were involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Why Enterprise CRM and SFA Software Fails, Especially in the Sales Organization

Chris Hamoen — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:34:19 -0000

Exactly - it doesn't matter what the CRM tool is, with bad data it won't matter. It's horrible for end users to use, and no report would ever be useful. Lose lose.

Nice infographic - you might find interesting this post below. It asks the question - why is user adoption an option?

http://hub.salesways.com/wh...

Re: First Impressions of Samsung Galaxy S4 – The Home Screen & Keyboard

Chris Hamoen — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:21:06 -0000

Update: So the samsung default keyboard can actually do auto-correct if you turn it on - instructions are below. The confusing part is tapping the line in setup which has a toggle on it. Why can't they just say "turn on auto-correct"?

1.Settings
2.My device (tab, at the top)
3.Language and Input
4.Select the set up icon beside Samsung Keyboard
5.Now, touch Predictive text, don’t touch/select the green toggle switch
6.Finally select Auto replacement tick box

Thanks to William Ng for the tip.

Re: Bay Street law firms see opportunity in helping small buinsess | Entrepreneur | Financial Post

Chris Hamoen — Wed, 29 May 2013 10:56:53 -0000

I think this is great - with so much entrepreneurial activity going on in Ontario, getting in early paves the way for larger future business.

Re: Are Canada’s VCs missing the mark? | Entrepreneur | Financial Post

Chris Hamoen — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:55:46 -0000

"but it also means being smart and looking at all your options, not just one of them"

Totally agree - one point in all of this that I keep thinking about is that entrepreneurs shouldn't "depend" on professional investment. There are other ways to grow. As Guy Kowasaki said in a recent presentation - no one ever said "I have a problem - too many sales!"

Of course there are certain industries where this doesn't work - where startup capital is required. But too often I hear software entrepreneurs complain that they failed because no one would invest in them.

Re: Cross Platform BlackBerry Messenger – Make or Break Strategy

Chris Hamoen — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:34:25 -0000

Fred Wilson's take on this - a day late, and a dollar short. This should have been done in 2009. Now Kik and Whatsapp exist to fill that void.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/201...

Re: What Am I Doing Here?

Chris Hamoen — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:24:53 -0000

I actually never believed I was a sales person. I worked with customers all day long, but believed that sales people had some form of "personality magic" that I didn't understand, but resulted in orders.

Re: What is ASPEC?

Chris Hamoen — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:18:53 -0000

Hi John, Thanks for your question. There is pricing information on our salesways website - available here: http://www.salesways.com/sa...

If you have any further questions or comments, please feel free to email me at chris dot hamoen at salesways dot com.

Re: Up In The Air

Chris Hamoen — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:11:59 -0000

Thanks for your comment Derrick. Great point on knowledge vs application. Of course following on this is the issue with re-inforcement post-training...but that is the subject of another article!

Re: Worst Scheduled Tweet Timing. Ever.

Chris Hamoen — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:53:45 -0000

What does being an intern have to do with it? Many people do this - in fact many social media experts advocate it.

Bad idea however.

Re: Can RIM Make a Rebound?

Chris Hamoen — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:24:56 -0000

This is the most hilarious thing I've read today:

"Yeah, I wish my BB had a faster browser, but I ain't some kid watching videos all afternoon waiting for mom to pick me up from the mall."

Try opening any web page - web is become the platform, yet RIM still has the roughest experience outside of PIM functionality of any device.

Re: Lean Startup Tools

Chris Hamoen — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:15:29 -0000

Dropbox is amazing - we use it basically instead of a document management tool. It's the right 80% - going as far as sharing materials across a partner network for translation/etc.

Re: Show me the money

Chris Hamoen — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:23:50 -0000

Isn't the final R for Revenue?

Anyways - perhaps the frustration on the "other side" (the investors) is that some entrepreneurs think they are the next big thing, pointing to stats that are an order of magnitude lower than twitter and feel it's just cash that will get them there. So if Twitter is 350k signups and 2k/day new visitors and they get 5 mil, then at 70k signups and 500 signups/day...it's an easy 1 mil..:)

From any direction, twitter was an #-of-eyeballs investment.

Re: Show me the money

Chris Hamoen — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:02:01 -0000

Do you think Canadian VCs would be too conservative to make the type of investment USV did with Twitter? When even the VC said they had no idea what the business model is? They had the eyeballs - but people still remembered bubble 1.0.

http://www.usv.com/2007/07/...

Edit - not whining or a complaint - just curiousity. I think the investment opportunity in Canada is better it's ever been.

Re: Show me the money

Chris Hamoen — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:13:38 -0000

Lets define "recently" first - I had meant years, not months. There appears to be a lot more early-stage options available (and more popping up).

Re: Show me the money

Chris Hamoen — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:47:38 -0000

I think the market for capital in Canada has changed recently - there are many more seed options available.

Re: Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

Chris Hamoen — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:02:23 -0000

Regarding Freakonomics - that was the point I remembered most (Real Estate agents).

Re: How I Dislike Thee, OS X Lion, Let Me Count the Ways - Techland - TIME.com

Chris Hamoen — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:40:36 -0000

This is a headline grabber without much substance. PPV comp?

I like the guy who said "If it works, don't fix it." - if we all followed this, there would be no innovation.

Apple is blurring the lines around what mobile devices are, while everyone else is yelling "GET OFF MY LAWN!"

Re: The Art of The Substitution

Chris Hamoen — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:17:05 -0000

If she greeted you at the door, she could have steered you to her available inventory. In business, it's similar to writing the customers spec.