Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. When I first discovered the concept I found it enlightening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. Communication and writing skills are required.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. If anybody is to show ads you then need to decide: banner ads (how’d that go for MySpace?), I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. Just ask MySpace. contextual text ads (e.g. That was a kerfuffle too.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. What things did he experiment in the early days when there was no Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace to promote oneself? You can click the image above or this link.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

These applications have quickly become a part of our daily lives from booking airfare, to social media, to streaming content, etc. There’s a good possibility there was a QR code on it offering you free tracks from the band’s MySpace page. Remember that promotional advertisement handed to you about the big concert coming next month?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Friendster was DOA.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment. And, I dont like to copy and paste. Posted byTony Karrer at 8:47 AM 4comments: Famous Quotations said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. I found them by noticing the books that they had around for reading during their downtime at work; books on C++, Perl, PHP, etc.) Recently, a lot of people have been asking for my advice on how to deal with this growing challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

This is important both to maintain a consistent user experience (think the cleanliness of Facebook UI versus that of MySpace where users controlled the UI more) as well as to have advertising be an important part of their economic future. Most wont write stuff publicly because they fear retribution. Or how about Google?

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