InfoChachkie
APRIL 1, 2013
Marten began his story by explaining that MySQL was originally founded as a research project and how it was a nascent startup for nearly a decade before he joined the team. I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then. I was ready to give up. We forced them up on stage to receive the prize. Share and Enjoy.
InfoChachkie
JUNE 24, 2013
The CEO of Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) was born in Germany and grew up in South Africa. Although his English was impeccable, he was occasionally tripped up by colloquialisms. Startups must economically counteract the pervasive drone of large incumbents'' messaging.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2009
I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. The power to me was that I had already been blogging about my personal life and my children as well as separately about my startup. It’s also how Jason Nazar and I started communicating.
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
If you are a startup seeking funding, convey your company's origins, your current status and your ideal exit. We were talking about an upcoming conference when he declared, "I hate PowerPoint. Too much of it and a portion of your audience will stop listening and start reading while the remaining folks will tune you out altogether.
InfoChachkie
MAY 13, 2013
In John''s words, "This van pulls up, it''s the opening band. These guys (then) roll out of the van and start setting up their gear and I go, ''OK. According to John, "I started looking at the talent agencies and. If you haven''t watched the video yet, stop now and start the video at 5:45.
InfoChachkie
JULY 30, 2012
I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Thus, I was inspired when I heard about the impact collaboration-in-the-cloud innovator Central Desktop made at the April 2012 San Francisco ad:tech conference.
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 26, 2016
Facebook opens up Instant Articles to all publishers. If you don’t know, Instant Articles are Facebook’s new way to natively load articles within the app using an adapted RSS feed. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss.
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