Sometimes the best management is no management at all — first do no harm!
Indifference is as important as passion.
In organizational life, you can have influence over others or you can have freedom from others, but you can’t have both at the same time.
Saying smart things and giving smart answers are important. Learning to listen to others [...]
Blogging well, and regularly, is a big time commitment. So, I occassionally think about whether to blog and what to blog about. My current reasons for blogging are:
Building personal brand (letting those that are interested know how I think about things and what I think about)
Shine a light on topics that are particularly interesting [...]
As Rosie Dawn spread her five fingers over my beautiful Colorado sky this morning, I had the great pleasure of reading the muse Petter Jeffery’s tale of the great and unfolding legend of Red Mound:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120243357611452417.html?mod=hps_us_editors_picks
Greater battles for our souls careers desktops have ne’er [...]
After a month long hiatus / vacation, I’m back! I’ve got a lot of pent-up blogs just waiting to [...]
IntenseDebate has relaunched!
In an amazingly short time, IntenseDebate has:
- finished and polished the WordPress plug-in
- Migrated to the WordPress infrastructure
- and Integrated tightly with WordPress
Check out all the great new features…oh, and my plug-in just auto-updated itself…you gotta love it!
Great [...]
Charlene Li gave a nice presentation this morning at Defrag…good thought provoking reading if you want to know what a smart person thinks about the future of the social graph.
Defrag Keynote Nov. 4, 2008
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I am not a long-time nor regular blogger. I often think about why I should or shouldn’t blog. Brad Feld points to a very well thought-out essay on why bloggers blog…Andrew Sullivan’s Why I Blog is a [...]
I am so proud of the IntenseDebate team! Check this out:
I think the following can be interpreted:
- Since our competitor’s data is inflated by including visitors that aren’t so much visiting them as much as they are visiting their publishers, while IntenseDebate’s, is not, it not clear which company is bigger.
- Our growth is [...]
To everybody trying to understand what’s driving the current economic malaise, I haven’t seen a better description than the below deck that Sequoia put together for its portfolio companies.
Oh, and my $0.02 for you startuppers: what they said, x 2.
Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn
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From Roger Ehrenberg:
2-3 person teams, with a CEO who is the product visionary
A strong technology lead
A CEO who has infectious passion and intensity, yet is humble and coachable
A business model that I can understand in 30 seconds without visual aids
The company has a prototype/alpha version that is currently being challenged by users and generating feedback
An ability [...]