InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Under the heading, “The Book On Bezos,” the callout lists ten actionable and impactful nuggets of startup advice. Get Good Advice — And Ignore It (aka: Know When To Throw Away The Rule Book). From the start, Amazon had an audacious goal – to sell virtually every book online. it was instantly broadcast to its competitors.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Many software companies have > 80% gross margins which is why they are more valuable than say traditional retailers or consumer product companies. Turns out like most things there are no simple answers. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. One change in Google’s algorithm and whole businesses could be wiped out as chronicled in this excellent book by John Battelle called The Search. As more people consume Facebook pages, less people are consuming open Web pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

My perspective on this role is outlined in the book “ Rapid Realignment ,” by the experts in this space, George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky. The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

The details of this role are outlined in a new book “ Rapid Realignment ,” by the experts in this space, George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky. The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Framework 93

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

What has the consumer response been to all of that tracking of their data? None of the companies we're working with are taking that consumer data and selling it. So, when you talk about using this data, AI, and machine learning, the question is how you create that framework at scale. That's the hard part.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

After learning from a board member about the Jobs To Be Done framework, the board and leadership team agreed that this approach, which explores what causes someone to hire or fire a product or service, could provide even more actionable insights. This work only took them so far, however. Instead they hire them to make progress.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

OnLive’s tried to build a direct-to-consumer model led by an allegedly maniacal CEO who in the end fired all of his employees with no severance and then tried to relaunch the business with a subset. And so they never got consumer adoption. 22:00 Mark’s book recommendation: American Pastoral by Philip Roth.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In contrast to HashSet , EnumSet : Consumes less memory, usually. In contrast to HashMap , EnumMap : Consumes less memory, usually. If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. return super.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. If you’re a driver you need to Uber or Lyft to give consumers the confidence that you’re trustworthy. Enter the decentralized Internet. Same Airbnb, Upwork, Thumbtack and others.

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