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Re: Fun Friday: Pet Peeves

warrickt — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:28:22 -0000

Lateness - people being late to meet me, or me being late. With G/Maps and predicted travel time estimates there is no excuse, even in a busy City like SF. Must be my military background.....

Re: fitness truths the five biggest fitness myths debunked

warrickt — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:53:49 -0000

Spot on - I road race but have minimal time to train midweek so do 3 high to v. high intensity workouts on the bike of around 1.5hrs each - hitting VO2 max and maintaining anaerobic HR for extended periods - the result - consistent weight loss and fitness...with the side benefit of being able to eat whatever I want!

Re: Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO

warrickt — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:24:04 -0000

Having been a COO at a start-up I concur. My role was to manage the non-technical/product functions, i.e. marketing, sales, BD, operations, finance, working with the founding-CEO who was v. technical and product-focused. Worked fine for a while, but as the team grew and we hired functional leaders/experts in sales, marketing, etc. it became harder for them and the people who reported to them to understand who was the key decision maker - me or the CEO. Knowing that this was an issue I devolved myself of responsibility as we hired VP's - i.e. they reported to the CEO, and I ended up running admin, finance and operations - which is not what I signed up for - so left and in doing so believe the company was stronger for it. So in a nutshell a start-up doesnt need a COO, its needs strong, competent lieutenants in key functional roles and CEO who is willing and capable of wearing multiple hats.

Re: Keirin Speed Racers

warrickt — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:46:23 -0000

The last edition of 'Rouleur' has a great article on Keirin.

Re: Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

warrickt — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:27:30 -0000

I use a slightly modified version of the email hack with Gmail - I only leave messages that I need to respond to in to the Inbox, everything else goes into the Archive folder. Once a week I scan the Archive folder and 'promote' things as needed.

Another hack I find useful (Mac) is eliminating folders for files. The search functionality is far quicker then navigating folders and it saves me a ton of time as every file just sits at the top level of my Documents folder. The only hurdle is to use a good file naming scheme.

Re: Hasn't It Always Been About Status?

warrickt — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:22:55 -0000

For status to be truly conversational someone need to figure out how to update one platform on comments to status messages made in another. Otherwise there is no thread.

Re: Hubdub is One Today!

warrickt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:24:47 -0000

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I know that 09 is going to be awesome!

Re: Did you correctly predict Hubdub’s round of funding?

warrickt — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:43:48 -0000

Kudos to the Hubdub team on getting this far on virtually $0! Predictions are the Wikipedia of the future...... look to see them used more and more in understanding consumer trends and preferences, providing more engagement around evolving stories and even new forms of interactive advertising.

Re: Dean’s top ten games of 2008

warrickt — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:35:29 -0000

Now I know which games to buy...but which console is best? I have never owned one, so this would be for all round family use...suggestions? Xbox/PS3 or Wii?

Re: Who will win the second Presidential debate? Poll v Market

warrickt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:48:42 -0000

Pretty significant difference 51% for Obama on Sodahead vs. 79% here - wonder why - maybe the average Hub dubber is more highbrow and well informed...or maybe they're all flaming liberals!

Re: TechCrunch Guest Post - How to compete in the US without leaving blighty

warrickt — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:22:58 -0000

Good outreach Nigel!