InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. Be Yourself - Represent yourself, not the company in your comments. Engagement.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class. Ben, Sid and Taylor started BrightBlu while still students. Share and Enjoy.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. And the company that helped websites publish RSS?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Given the thousands of startups Venture Capitalists review annually, they must adopt efficient methods of quickly assessing if a person/opportunity is worth further diligence. Corporate Refugee without entrepreneurial experience, but has proven his leadership capabilities at a big company. Hairy Pattern Matching.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 13, 2012

However, at most startups, competitive advantages are derived from a combination of invention and innovation, as described more fully in Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You? This is in contrast to the approach taken by most big companies, which often focuses on outperforming the same activities conducted by their rivals.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg – “The dynamic of managing people and being CEO in a company is a lot different than being college roommates with someone.”. Although it may be comfortable to start a company with your friends, it is a mistake, unless your friend(s) happens to be ideally suited to their role in your venture.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

"When people would ask me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them ''a waitress,'' much to my mother''s chagrin. It was that love of serving people that led me on my long journey of starting a company.". I used to get up at 5:00 in the morning with my father and go to construction sites.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2013

As an early executive at MySQL, he helped build the company into the world's most used open source database. MatchON Sports it was one of the biggest dot com companies in Finland and it went straight ( into) the wall and went bankrupt. As the business sage Babe Ruth once said, "You just can't beat the person who won't give up."

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting. Brad on blogging.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

Managerial Oversight And Performance Matter At A Startup. Give them conscribed assignments which compliment their talents, but minimize the degree to which they interact with the rest of the company. If they do not adequately improve over time, consider counseling them out of your startup. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

If you are not anxious, then you are probably not pushing yourself or your startup hard enough. The inevitable pressures at a startup are not inherently negative. In the analog world, record companies controlled content distribution and thus played a significant role in a diva’s success. The Company You Keep.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

Such pro active communications allows startups to be more responsive than their larger, resource-rich competitors. Startup sales require high velocity. Startups must follow a similar philosophy. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed. we started this convo at minute 47]. But of course we also focused on making content go viral.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. Startups Need Execution, Not Administration. Five reasons many MBAs struggle at startups are as follows: 1. Wharton graduates averaged more than $114,000 of graduate school loans).

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InfoChachkie

JULY 15, 2013

In the business world, a fire subsisting on fuel wood is equivalent to a startup that has achieved scale. Scaling normally occurs after a startup achieves product-market fit. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 2, 2013

Mark framed his comments around the culture he built at Citrix, which has been augmented (and complicated) by the significant number of acquisitions the company executed during the past decade. You wake up and two phones ring. Most companies associate respect with hierarchy. According to Mark, it starts with people. "We

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. companies should… focus on building amazing products. For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. The new stuff: How do I get started? Slice it up enough to do many posts. That’s boring.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Once people who do not know you and have no vested interest in your company's success begin expending their time, money and resources to leverage your value proposition, you are gaining traction. Although I have always been extremely persistent in my professional follow-up, no one has (yet) issued a restraining order asking me to back off.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 29, 2012

Because Your Big Break May Start As A Little One. Industry veterans know each other and freely share information about up-and-coming products, companies and people. Work hard to ensure that trusted opinion leaders say positive things about you and your startup. A bit of up-front research would have served the band well.

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MARCH 15, 2010

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I started reading Brad’s “term sheet&# series.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In many instances, investors simply do not have the patience to wait for an entrepreneur to sufficiently clean up their deal once a significant issue is identified during the due diligence process. Geographic Dispersion – Significant physical separation of the startup's Tribe. Such deal breakers come in a variety of colors and styles.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

How did an American software engineer come to own an adventure travel company cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth?". According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji. We can start something. By that time, Fiji was just really grabbing us.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

During Mark's tenure, Citrix has grown from 50 employees and few million dollars of revenue to a company 7,000 employees strong, generating revenue in excess of $2.4 The earlier they define their strengths and weaknesses, the sooner they can begin to leverage their attributes and shore up their shortcomings. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. No matter how rapidly a startup is growing, it can never afford to sacrifice employee quality as a means of achieving its hiring goals.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 18, 2012

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Inventor And Innovator Characteristics. TV photo by gbaku.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you are a startup seeking funding, convey your company's origins, your current status and your ideal exit. Too much of it and a portion of your audience will stop listening and start reading while the remaining folks will tune you out altogether. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 15, 2012

When should I start looking for a mentor and how do I find a one?”. You would be amazed how few people have the guts to get up and ask. Internships are a great way to start working with someone who could end up being your mentor. Just look on their company website. No listing on the company website?

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MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. startup scene so hot.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

and tell them what he knew and what he thought his place should be in the company. How can we make this a better company, with people who may have different skills than some of us. I recently applied my own advice late last year because ValueClick (Commission Junction's parent company) acquired a company by the name of Dotomi.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Nearly everyone ends up with one or two bad bosses during their careers. I did this twice in my career and it allowed me to assess the people, culture and veracity of the company's value proposition before I joined full time. Ostensibly, your purpose is to learn general information about the company, its culture, etc.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Although Mefeedia plays in the very crowded, online video space, the site seems to be very popular with end users, so we thought we'd chat with Frank a bit about the company. How did the company come about, and why'd you start it? What we do is we index video, through RSS feeds, and indexes via sites and our own indexer.

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JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 29, 2013

How can you protect your company''s reputation when a rouge customer unjustly flames your startup? The respondent to the customer complaint was Tige Young, CEO and Owner of the Tui Tai Expeditions , cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth.".

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The Company. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Opportunity. PAIN: what painful issue are you addressing and how extensive is the issue (e.g., Share and Enjoy.

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