January 2011
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It's not you, it's your users: the new bizdev
There’s a funny thing happening in a consumer facing world increasingly focused on social media as a means of advertising. There’s a lot of talk about the virality of various campaigns, but there’s a side of that paradigm that isn’t discussed as often: the disruption of the traditional model of biz dev.
In the old days, there was a guy, or a team, whose job was to go out...
Simonbrief: My deep MLK Day roots →
siguy:
My experience at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School shaped me tremendously. One of the most unique aspects of the school was its fervent and seemingly religious celebration of Martin Luther King Day. I have powerful memories of our school assemblies and the songs we would sing like If I had a…
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if {Smarter AND Harder AND Faster} then TRUE else...
I was a huge fan of Ducktales growing up. I can still sing the majority of the intro song, recall most of the characters, and was always willing to allow for the physical impossibility of both Scrooge’s ability to swim through money and the existence of Duckburg as a city where dogs and various billed fowl lived in cross-species harmony.
The really interesting thing about the show, looking...
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Scale means never having to say you're sorry?
AT&T had me locked in as a customer the other day. As far as I knew - following quite a lot of research on the interwebs - they were my only choice for broadband. I had just spent an hour getting bounced around by Comcast (including one woman who sounded like a Russian expat living in Delhi) before being told they could not help me. So, I surrendered to the less good DSL being promised by...
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ABCD some more: Craigslist, stolen parking spots,...
Turns out that picking up Craigslist items and using the wrong parking spots can be a hell of a way to network. Recently bought an air mattress and a futon from two different startup CEOs. Then, when Josh and I got back to the apartment, we parked in a spot that turned out to belong to the head of the science department of a local high school who loves the idea of Tutorspree and wants to talk...
