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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s.

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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve. Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. These are really massive customers. We knew how to land huge corporate customers.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Build a SWAT team 3.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

socalTECH

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. Our customers can sign up, and they can get full access to our API, where they can create campaigns to target public officials. Jason Kiesel: Yes.

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