Marketing.fm

I have not been doing marketing for quite some time and I thought it was time to start writing under a new domain. You can now find all new material at www.EricGFriedman.com See you there!

I don’t have a bank anymore.  Well thats not exactly true, but I don’t have a physical bank I can go into anymore.  I now bank with Ally (Formerly GMAC) and have been happily with them for the past year.  They don’t have any locations or branches that I can physically walk into.  I do [...]

I am teaching a SkillShare class this week with Christina Cacioppo called how to get a job at a startup.  I am excited to dive into this topic as I have sorted through a ton of resumes and had a number of people reach out about this question.  I have been speaking to a number of people recently [...]

Recently I co-hosted an event with Ro Gupta from Disqus, Marc Leibowitz from StumbleUpon, Shaival Shah from Hunch, and Mark Coatney from Tumblr called Social Discovery and the Implicit Graph. We hosted the event at the new Union Square Ventures office as part of an ad-hoc Internet Week event in NYC.  All the proceeds went to HackNY. We [...]

I am teaching a SkillShare class on what to ask yourself before launching a startup. SkillShare is a distributed learning platform that pairs people who are passionate about topics with those eager to learn.  Its run by my good friend Mike Karnjanaprakorn and recently launched to allow more learning to happen. I recently asked the [...]

Following up is one of those things that is really easy and really hard at the same time. Let me explain. Everybody is busy. Everybody wishes they had more time. Following up correctly takes time and is not always the easiest thing to remember. However to the person on the other end of the email [...]

I think the idea of Rate Limiting usage as a business model is very interesting.  I recently read that Google is going to begin charging for using their Prediction API for a fee monthly plus usage.  Another popular example is Twilio, which charges based on usage of their API.    I could be using this [...]

I am very excited to announce that Foodspotting has acquired Eat.ly I am extremely proud of this sandbox project created by my co-founders and friends Mike Singleton, Sam Huleatt, and Sam Brown Below is the final goodbye page we posted on Eat.ly notifying our users on 12/17/2010 We began working on Eat.ly in the fall of 2009 as [...]

Last year I had the pleasure to listen to Danny Meyer speak at the USV Portfolio Summit.  Oncer per year USV asks the CEO’s from portfolio companies and other executive management to come for a day of information exchange, reflection, updates, and introductions. Over a great lunch Danny Meyer, author of Setting The Table and [...]

I got the chance to work with some talented partners on a recent voting visualization which tracked voting check-ins on foursquare on a voting map. (its also embedded below) When we first conceived this idea, it was setup to accomplish three major things Encourage civic participation through the distribution of the I Voted foursquare badge [...]