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Re: Yellow Invisalign, Floor M&Ms, and Why the Neighbors Hate Us.

natala — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:47:39 -0000

My mum's a librarian so I grew up in a home where the books were organized by Dewey Decimal. Since then I've always sorted by topic and then by alpha. However, the beauty of the rainbow display has been compelling. I really want to put all my books into an online system so I can find things by lots of criteria and then find them in a pretty display.... <3

Re: Review: Becoming a Wilderness First Responder (WFR) with NOLS

natala — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:03:13 -0000

Thanks for this great review! I'm taking the WFR in sausalito next week, so I truly appreciated the review. I had debated taking it in a wilderness location, but ultimately decided that sleeping in my own bed was worth the trade, but now I'm not so sure!

Re: The Best Leadership Advice I’ve Ever Gotten

natala — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:10:52 -0000

beautiful post kushal! as someone who's debating a travel-cation, this was inspiring :)

Re: Onward and Upward, Vittana!

natala — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:34:03 -0000

congrats Kushal. You've accomplished amazing things and I'm excited to see what's next!

Re: Jet Lag

natala — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:40:43 -0000

We've been having a similar discussion on a FB travel group that I'm part of and the top advice (that a few of us have tried -- with good success) is changing your eating pattern after a period of fasting.

The fasting is usually during plane time so that when you arrive at your destination you can eat your next meal at a regular time in the new time zone. The key is really eating in your time zone more than *sleeping* in your new time zone. For me, I need to drink water continuously on the flight, but I limit what I eat and it seems to help.

Re: Our startup’s pivot: Three important lessons we learned

natala — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:02:24 -0000

Thank you for sharing this -- such an important story about the struggle of building things we love and the challenges of actually building a company. Excited for your future!

Re: A Grand Experiment: 4 months in Silicon Valley

natala — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:38:28 -0000

Great post. We will have to have a "Seattlites in SF" happy hour for you when you officially get into town.

For me personally, the Seattle Tech Community was awesome -- but the energy in the valley is unbeatable.

Re: How to pretend you’re a startup (Hint: call me when you offer stock options)

natala — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:10:15 -0000

Microsoft pitched this "startup" inside concept when I joined them (I didn't believe them - but I wasn't looking for a startup). I think one of the key elements of being at a startup is the instability -- you don't know if you will actually make it, and if you don't things could go POOF. And it is a long arduous crazy adventure to figure out how to make it work. Anytime you have stability -- that's there's no end to the launch pad -- then it probably isn't a startup. Most big companies guarantee things like transfers and replacement jobs if something goes awry, which takes out a lot of the risk. That risk, IMHO, is often what causes people to do extraordinary things -- that change the world.

Great post Jason!

Re: Daryn’s Not So Famous, One Pan Cookie

natala — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:30:55 -0000

wow an entire stick of butter in one cookie! looks like fun :)

Re: Time to Say Goodbye to the Cable Guy: Why You’ll Buy TV on the Web in 2012

natala — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:57:01 -0000

Interesting -- I'll be curious how that goes. For me, I'm a college hoops fan -- and the options for real-time streaming just don't seem to exist. The best options have been "play by play" (think crosses and knots on a drawn basketball court) that virtually tell you the story of the game. But i want live action!

Re: Time to Say Goodbye to the Cable Guy: Why You’ll Buy TV on the Web in 2012

natala — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:49:44 -0000

It sounds sexy, but the glitch for me is live sports coverage. Those deals are often exclusive to cable providers if you want HD and are probably what's going to keep cable alive for quite a bit longer.

Re: Working Backwards

natala — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:30:13 -0000

Thanks for this post Werner! I was explaining this process recently and am now just pointing folks to your post - very useful. All the best.

Re: http://www.designstaff.org/articles/hiring-a-designer-2011-11-01.html

natala — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:46:47 -0000

Great post! We actually called our design hire at my first startup the "Unicorn" hire because it was so hard to fill -- and because we wanted a designer who could code. Understanding the tradeoffs is critical when making that kind of decision -- in our case we chose to leverage marketing for research/persona development and product to answer the "what are we building" questions. It worked for us because we had the culture to support it and talents elsewhere in the organization at the time. Looking forward to more great posts.

Re: Four-Part Series on Lessons Learned on Scaling

natala — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:33:31 -0000

Sara -- i'm really excited to read your posts! I run marketing for a small startup, Gigwalk and we've been debating how to grow our marketing. If you are open, I'd really love to chat with you about your experiences and thoughts.

Re: http://blog.gigwalk.com/post/11676358290

natala — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:57:53 -0000

Thanks Kate. That's great feedback - we hear great things about the monopod!

Re: How hundreds of coffee meetings have paid off for TeachStreet

natala — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:11:24 -0000

technically I introduced you to Dave Thompson - but it was Joe's strong reco that tipped the balance :) Good post dave!

Re: SXSW 2012 - How to get super powers with crowdsourcing

natala — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:32:17 -0000

Thanks Paul!

Re: SXSW 2012 - Data is not a Substitute for Good Taste

natala — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:52:38 -0000

Even though I might be one of those people who actually calculated the ROI of my Mum - I love this proposal and think it's going to be an awesome session. Michelle is a fabulous speaker and incredibly insightful when it comes to delivering information about Community Marketing.

Re: http://blog.gigwalk.com/post/8794127085

natala — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:15:46 -0000

We are looking forward to chatting with all of you!

Re: http://blog.gigwalk.com/post/8796499194

natala — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:15:08 -0000

Thanks for your feedback and for sharing your perspective. It is very useful, our primary goal is to get the active businesses completed (those are the ones that are most useful to the customer).

Re: http://blog.gigwalk.com/post/8813382004

natala — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:10:00 -0000

It's a beautiful city, with a lot of available Gigs, and it is also our newest city. We will learn from this experiment and roll out similar activities across our markets. Would love any feedback on the event -- and hope to see you there?

Re: http://blog.gigwalk.com/post/6622003942

natala — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:23:27 -0000

This is awesome! GigwalkTalk is so cool and useful :)

Re: Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% spam.

natala — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:36:53 -0000

HI Panos - Would you mind e-mailing me the data? We had asked for it during our previous conversation but never received it (and because the frame is small in your post it is difficult to copy & paste the data). Thanks.

Re: Slides from Mongo Seattle

natala — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:41:33 -0000

Your slides look great daryn!

Re: Moving Back to Linda’s for next few weeks!

natala — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:44:51 -0000

I vote for more hops & chops on the hill! Last week was great.