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Startup Lessons: Board Management 24 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
This is the 5th installment in the Startup Lessons series I have been writing in the wake of my experience with Get Satisfaction. This one will certainly inspire a lot of head shaking around the table...
Hype-Loop 13 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
Elon Musk is an enviable entrepreneur. He resides in the rarified air of a credible tech celebrity and can command the rapt attention of the tech media with little more than a 57 page term paper for s...
Startup Lessons: Marketing 7 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
This is the 4th installment in the Startup Lessons series I have been writing in the wake of my experience with Get Satisfaction. We are getting into the topics that are much more specific to Get Sati...
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 5 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
As I was packing for our recent trip to Florida I looked at my camera bag with my Canon 5D MKII, lenses, battery, filters, and assorted gadgets and thought “man I really don’t want to haul that stuff ...
Startups Lessons: Product First 3 Aug 2013 | 03:35 am
I have covered a couple of topics in this series, the first being hiring the best people and the second organizing for success based on the attributes of the people you are hiring. Today I want to go...
Identity and The Rise of Borderless States 30 Jul 2013 | 09:45 pm
I had this conversation with @andredurand a few weeks ago. What services does a government provide? - Identity - Central bank-backed currency - Law-and-order (optimally in equal proportions) - Defens...
The Chromebook Dulls… 29 Jul 2013 | 11:09 pm
Back in June I wrote a post about my plunge into the world of Chromebooks. I thought it would be a good idea to provide an update on that experience and highlight the reasons why I am putting it on th...
Turning off Comments 25 Jul 2013 | 01:21 am
I have turned off comments for the time being… 2 reasons: 1) Spam: I am getting inundated with spam comments masquerading as legitimate comments. The better ones are hard to detect at first glance, o...
Startup Lessons: Dynamic Org Structures 18 Jul 2013 | 09:57 pm
Last week I posted the first in a series of posts about my startup experience with Get Satisfaction. The first post focused on hiring and was appropriately the first in the series because hiring decis...
Terms and Conditions May Apply 18 Jul 2013 | 01:16 am
This is a really interesting movie about how consumer services are building businesses on the private data that consumers are handing over, and by extension how big data is fueling new concerns about ...
