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6 months ago
in Le Web: Like a web conference, without the web on VentureBeat
Seems kinda harsh for Arlington to bitch when le web was down at TC50 too. Guess even cali can't be perfect!
6 months ago
in Le Web: Like a web conference, without the web on VentureBeat
Seems kinda harsh for Arlington to bitch when le web was down at TC50 too. Guess even cali can't be perfect!
9 months ago
in Open-ness in the mobile value chain on The Equity Kicker
I agree completely! When the iphone launched everyone talked about how Jobs was taking it to the carriers and breaking their backs. Well, in the end, all they did was shift who gets to decide how to block apps on the platform.
My buddy Justin launched the Instinctive player for the iphone and Additunes (similar to the genius playlist) long before apple did, and now both of these apps aren't allowed anymore.
Time to go look at Tmobile and Android, or my fav, blackberry.
My buddy Justin launched the Instinctive player for the iphone and Additunes (similar to the genius playlist) long before apple did, and now both of these apps aren't allowed anymore.
Time to go look at Tmobile and Android, or my fav, blackberry.
9 months ago
in Social media more popular than porn on the web on The Equity Kicker
"More popular than porn", or "at least as popular as porn" should be an industry benchmark. There would be no questions about Twitter, if that comparison was reached. haha.
Great post.
Great post.
12 months ago
in A Nordic trade-off on Beta.ArcticStartup
Interesting post. I spent most of last summer touring Europe working with early stage private equity investors (mostly angel investors), and I wish I'd had more exposure to the entrepreneurs.
Given the segmented nature of the markets and the different language barriers, I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to get proof of concept before deciding to bootstrap the rest of the way or to seek private/institutional money.
Whats the EU VC market like? Is it a common strategy to find tech working in one country, and then expand it to the others?
Given the segmented nature of the markets and the different language barriers, I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to get proof of concept before deciding to bootstrap the rest of the way or to seek private/institutional money.
Whats the EU VC market like? Is it a common strategy to find tech working in one country, and then expand it to the others?
1 year ago
in http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78889856 on Gary Vaynerchuk
Really interesting point, and great follow-on discussion. I agree with "lish" when he says "master of the obvious", but not with the rest of his harsh comments.
It is obvious! Many times its the obvious things that we miss, and Gary has definitely reminded me of that through a couple of these videos.
At Angelsoft, we've spent years trying to build the perfect tools for investors (and even then we didn't get huge adoption at first), but people eventually saw that we were building tools for them, and that our interests were aligned with theirs. Some were suspicious, and that has been extremely frustrating for me as a business development guy, but our persistence keeps winning out. We go back to the drawing board, we call in more users to get feedback, and we get it right for our users.
The real kicker here I think it Authenticity! We are marketed to all day long from every angle, we don't like anything fake, and we're getting better at sniffing out the fakers
It is obvious! Many times its the obvious things that we miss, and Gary has definitely reminded me of that through a couple of these videos.
At Angelsoft, we've spent years trying to build the perfect tools for investors (and even then we didn't get huge adoption at first), but people eventually saw that we were building tools for them, and that our interests were aligned with theirs. Some were suspicious, and that has been extremely frustrating for me as a business development guy, but our persistence keeps winning out. We go back to the drawing board, we call in more users to get feedback, and we get it right for our users.
The real kicker here I think it Authenticity! We are marketed to all day long from every angle, we don't like anything fake, and we're getting better at sniffing out the fakers
2 years ago
in Let Your Blog Posts Marinate (4 Steps to Forming Great Ideas) on LifeDev
I've been "letting them marinate" for a couple of months now and the results are getting better. I've been generally using the blog editor, ecto, and its ability to store drafts of articles before you actually publish them to your blog.
2 years ago
in Let Your Blog Posts Marinate (4 Steps to Forming Great Ideas) on LifeDev
I'd really like to hear more about the workflow aspect of this.
I'm having trouble finding the right blog editor that lets me focus more on the content and less ont he formatting shortcomings.
One thing I did like, when I used ecto (ecto.kung-foo.tv/ ), you could store drafts and come back to them later. It would be nice to be able to group them in folders, or create a more defined workflow of how a post makes its way to being published.
Anyway, great post!
My quick posts are definitely junk, the ones that wait are definitely better, and I think I would get more good posts out if I had a better workflow involving this "marinate" step.
I'm having trouble finding the right blog editor that lets me focus more on the content and less ont he formatting shortcomings.
One thing I did like, when I used ecto (ecto.kung-foo.tv/ ), you could store drafts and come back to them later. It would be nice to be able to group them in folders, or create a more defined workflow of how a post makes its way to being published.
Anyway, great post!
My quick posts are definitely junk, the ones that wait are definitely better, and I think I would get more good posts out if I had a better workflow involving this "marinate" step.
