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4 months ago

in White Paper: Disintermediation of Online Display Advertising on Darren Herman - Marketing, Media and Technology Conversations
Thanks for posting this, Darren. A great and well argued overview of how the industry is changing.

6 months ago

in Ode to the Organizers: Debbie Westheimer on innonate
Okay well I'll have to issue the same thanks when you publish your dad blog post. :)

7 months ago

in I live for this: The challenge of entrepreneurship on This is going to be BIG!
your mom is the cutest.
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joiamom44 Charlie please send my condolences to Jillian on the loss of her dog, It hurts so much when a beloved pet dies.

9 months ago

in Administrative Control: Didn't anyone ever hear of Enterprise 2.0? on This is going to be BIG!
Hey Charlie -- We're actually going to give Yammer a try amongst some BVP-ers. For our use case, it's not about corporations having control over our "twitter feeds". It's more about being able to communicate with colleagues in the same way as people communicate via Twitter. The difference being that the content is specific (and closed) to my colleagues, and not available to the entire Twitter community. I'm not sure your IM client example is analogous.
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ceonyc Seen Chatterous?

It's the same exact product. We use it for internal chat.

I'd love to know the type of communication you have on it that you
wouldn't do on e-mail but can't do on Twitter.
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evbart I agree, they could kind of be used for the same thing, but chatterous isn't twitter.

I like how Yammer does the live refresh from the web-app, so its almost like a chat application. The air client is also pretty solid, and I heard Twhirl is going to release yammer support so you can do both your twitter and yammer stuff from the same app.

How many people are there at BVP? Just trying to get a feel for how many people you have to have to support an active Yammer community within your company.

12 months ago

in My recent tracks on Last.fm on This is going to be BIG!
These posts are always such a tease.... I open my Google Reader, see a new post from This is going to be BIG!, click to read your latest pearls of wisdom, and then it turns out to be a list of your tracks. Such a let down.... ;)
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ceonyc Sometimes I need to be in input mode vs. output.. .it's a balance. Now
you see how the magic happens.

How come you don't have a Disqus account?
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Kevin Marshall I kind of like them...I'll like them better once the newer roll-up features are added that Charlie and I have been talking about...but even as is, I like getting some musical inspiration from time to time (once a week feels about right...what do you have the schedule set at now?)...

1 year ago

in Welcome to Silicon Alley on innonate
hey!! what about bessemer?
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innonate Does White Plains or wherever upstate count? Okay, okay, I'll edit.
But just for you! (Do you realize how many complaints I'm getting?)

1 year ago

in The Venture Apprenticeship, Preface on punctuative! by Matt Winn
oooh. Very cool. I look forward to these posts...

1 year ago

in Disconnected on This is going to be BIG!
haha - weird. great minds think alike, my friend! (i just had a similar post!)

1 year ago

in links for 2007-10-15 on This is going to be BIG!
Thanks for the link. :)

2 years ago

in Paying for Our Vices on punctuative! by Matt Winn
Matt,

Very interesting post. I couldn't agree more with the idea of incentiving people towards health. And very interesting re: the Humana health rewards program! I hadn't heard of it and am thankful to you for mentioning it.

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2 years ago

in Pitching Doctors Education (and Drugs) on punctuative! by Matt Winn
Hey Matt,

Cool companies you mentioned that you guys have invested in.

As an aside, I can’t resist the temptation to clarify that the average Primary Care Physician (PCP) rep actually gets no where near 3.5 minutes per visit. When I did ride-withs for a top-top-5 Pharmaceutical companies in my strategy consulting gig, the average was more like 8 seconds (!). Most rep visits to PCPs are literally only a sample delivery mechanism. Back in the good ole days, before the reps arms race, PCP reps were seen as value add as you mention. But not anymore.

Specialists on the other hand are more about being on the bleeding edge of innovation. Whereas PCPs need to have a broad knowledgebase, Specialists need to know what the latest drugs are in their specialty. They need to know what the hottest and newest pills are, and so the reps really add that value-added service that you mention (these reps are also generally better trained and have a deeper life sciences background than PCP reps too). Those visits are longer -- maybe near 3 minutes on average -- but still pretty short.

I agree that eDetailing is definitely seen as a way to help ease the PCP rep arms race... many Pharma companies have been pushing this for some time, even requiring that doctors watch an eDetail before they can order additional samples. But change is slow. eDetailing is in particular being pushed in rural areas --- areas where the reach & frequency model is too inefficient.

just my two cents...

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2 years ago

in Three More Junior Professional VC Bloggers on punctuative! by Matt Winn
Matt - Embarrassed to say I just saw your reply. That's so great that your sister's jeans worked out! If she's free, I'm always love meeting interesting people in different spheres....

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2 years ago

in A Touch of Ecocentrism on punctuative! by Matt Winn
Matt,

That is definitely too funny. I've tried putting the badge on my blog but was having trouble (for some reason the pic is not coming out, just the text on the bottom).... I'll try playing with the html later this week. But great idea to do the badges!

hope you are well,
st

2 years ago

in Three More Junior Professional VC Bloggers on punctuative! by Matt Winn
hey matt. I just came across you blog because I was trying to put a blogroll together of other pre-mba's in VC and was caught by surprise to see your shout out. Thank you! Great blog -- I look forward to reading your future posts!

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