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The Social Media Tsunami

1. September 2010

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My friend Mike Singleton just coined a new phrase which I like which happens after you meet someone for the first time, or correspond with them online.  It represents the full monty of online connections that can occur.  These usually happen in fast succession resulting in an avalanche of connection options coming from one person [...]

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Institutional Knowledge

31. August 2010

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Within any workforce there are new workers and old workers. This is not an age debate and when I refer to new worker I mean new to the company and old workers as been there awhile. They say you can master a job or at least hit your stride after 18 months. So what does [...]

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Behavior Generated Content

9. March 2010

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Behavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is an [...]

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Working in the Cloud

3. March 2010

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For the past few months I have been looking into how to best migrate off of Microsoft Exchange and onto Google Apps. The first step in that process was to determine the needs of everyone that would be using the new mail system and how they differed from doing things before. The second step was [...]

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Social Network URLs – the future of advertising?

23. February 2010

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I have been watching a lot of the Olympics and loving it. One thing I have noticed as I watch in real time is a growing trend of brands using social network URLs instead of their own. Below are examples from Uniball and Toyota. I remember seeing another for an upcoming movie but I forgot [...]

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“Meet Me for Coffee” – Informal Interviews with the Go-Between

18. December 2009

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This is a guest post from my friend David Schaffer It’s a familiar mantra of job hunters: it’s not what you know, but who you know. So often, searching for a new job involves contacting everyone you know in your field, alerting them to your interest in a new position, and arranging to meet over [...]

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Steve Blank event in NYC – Entrepreneurs Discussion

23. November 2009

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Steve Blank spoke to a group of entrepreneurs On November 12th 2009, about the Customer Development Process and running a lean startup. It was a great night with great questions throughout – I hope it do it again the next time Steve is in town. We hope to do something similar to this in the [...]

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Google Music

28. October 2009

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Image via CrunchBase Google announced the ability to search, find, and play music via their search experience tonight. This is a huge business development boon by the companies involved and a major kudos goes to Imeem, MySpacePandora, LaLa, and Rhapsody. This also seems like a big win for the record labels. Below is a video [...]

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Talk to your customers – and let them talk to each other

24. September 2009

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Last week my friend Spencer Fry from Carbonmade showed me a cool activity he participates in about once a month. His company sends out a message to its users inviting them into a Drop.io chatroom to discuss Carbonmade which is an online design portfolio company, and talk to the founders. More importantly, users get a [...]

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Digital Reading

4. September 2009

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife I am going to take the weekend to read some books in digital formats. Mainly on the iPhone, but I feel like a digital screen is a big change from the printed book. I have never read a book in digital format, although I probably have read parts of [...]

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