Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Nanea help leadership roles at EA (SVP, COO Global Online), Gaikai (Chief Product Officer, Chief Strategy Officer), JAMDAT (SVP), Machinma (COO) and currently textPlus (President & COO – including leading engineering and product). Here are some things we discussed: User experience focused product management.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

4 months later every f **g product I see looks like Pinterest. Facebook Fan Pages launch. All of these features, products, business models in their own right are valuable. In due course. In the absence of conviction, experience or pain-in-the-ass board members it’s easy to veer off course. get me some.

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Course Resource Social Media Design 368

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2023

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). Of course, relationships seldom fit neatly into a given level. He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

And of course you could add up impressions by counting your the followers of everybody who had retweeted plus your own. Of course it’s valuable to know how many clicks you drive. Here’s a screen shot of my home page on awe.sm. Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages.

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. He told me that there were a core group of inner Digg users who could control what got on the front page.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

How to Deal with Electronic Distractions Of course the biggest competition you have with the attention of your board members is their mobile phones. Be super polite and not aggressive and simply make the point that you really want the most productive time from your board members. Most likely you’d be wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

When I think about the people in our generation I most respect: Elon Musk, Larry Page, Richard Branson – they are optimists to a fault. Of course the naysayers are out again. It was really gratifying to read Larry Page’s interview in the FT this past week. When we ship product. I’d love even 0.5%

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

This, of course, is potentially game-changing news for Shopify users. As a result, you'll have likely seen tech publishers breathlessly updating deals pages whenever Prime Day comes around — we do this at Tech.co, as well , though we're not quite as breathless as some rivals. Considering Shopify?

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Marketing Buzzfeed Guide Platform 177

Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. They had no mantra, and a limited vision to connect mainframe computers to share academic information.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). And so it is with video. Quibi = “quick bites”).

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Content Netflix Platform Mobile 244

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). Of course, relationships seldom fit neatly into a given level. He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

Based on their years of experience as successful executives and productivity consultants, they and I agree that focusing on these key positive elements will more likely get you the accountability you desire: Set clear and high standards of performance. Moran and Michael Lennington. Real accountability only comes with decision autonomy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We had agreed to a stated internal policy that even though taking this stance would mean our product would have considerably less traffic it was an important part of what we felt our long-term brand represented. ” If people had seen the article on the home page of the news outlets website it no doubt would have been Tweeted.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. And of course they are also focused on the US Hispanic market. We will obviously take a page out of their successful playbook.

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Invest Content Media Networking 291

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

million new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. With the an estimated 150,000 new websites and 7.3

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Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

Every investor will tell you that they invest in the person, more than the product, because they have learned that people with focus find success. Of course, these may need to be updated for cause, but it’s hard to get anywhere if you don’t have a specific destination. Documented business objectives and a timeline.

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Entrepreneur Startup Patents Resource 126

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Almost always the CEO plus members of his or her management team including tech, marketing, sales and/or product. Great leaders are able to empower their team members to make autonomous decisions and great leaders know when to empower them versus when to step in and course correct. Each of these scenarios has a team presenting.

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Venture Capital Slides Course Summary 377

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages? Lists of pages in the interface?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

In that critical first minute, no one needs to hear that you have a passionate dream of changing the world, introducing new disruptive technology, or a product with more features than competitors. Focus on quantifiable and relevant specifics, such as “reduces your cost by 40 percent,” or “increases productivity by 50 percent.”

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And of course, the fines are astronomical. Think of the advertisements that follow you around various sites for days and weeks after you visit the first site and look for a product.) Most of us create our data stores to identify trends both geographic and product-based, stripping individual contact data from the mix. (But

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Sites Email Google Course 149

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Are there specific landing pages? Arbitrary new pages? Lists of pages in the interface?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Even if you follow this game plan meticulously your board meeting can be taken off course by well-intentioned board members who lead you down a rate hole. Can I Just Show You One Thing That Doesn’t Work in Your Product? ” I would put the product feedback into the same bucket as the open questions about the business.

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Startup Course Summary Product 312

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Many startups these days are started by young, technical or product founders who are in the idealistic phase of their lives and careers. Of course it sounds nicer to live in a utopian socialist society where everybody has the same amount and life is “fair.” And it’s why many early-stage companies blow up.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). and Microsoft had become.

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

You know the truth: You are late shipping product, your potential investors are taking too long to decide, your team is fighting over strategy, not enough of your users are returning. Startups are filled with enormously talented people – often product people & engineers. Inside your own corridors you’re naked.

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Startup Press Course Entrepreneur 412

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. Most investors want to enquire about a few operating metics and this type of discussion is less productive in a group setting.

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Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Founded over a year ago, Stacksocial’s CEO Josh Payne , found the task of sifting through page after page in the hunt for software daunting and decided something had to be done. Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more.

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Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren’t generally available: Basic Office Politics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Of course, you need work with partners and channel to quantity their costs and contributions and normalize total results. What if someone sees an ad, visits a web page, watches a video, downloads a brochure, responds to an e-mail, and finally buys a product? Use these to set probability limits on apparent ROI results.

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Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). Of course, relationships seldom fit neatly into a given level. He also defines the five floors of relationships as follows: Meet and greet relationships (first floor).

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Startup Guide Help Course 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 9, 2013

Do you ship your product in what you don’t feel is feature complete so that you can be in market first or should you hold back and deliver a product you believe will get better reaction from the market but is 3 months later? Larry Page. Chart their own course against the constant chorus of second guessers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. Growing our Product Lines. It worked perfectly. This was painful.

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? More strategic.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world.

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