Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Turn Your Organization Inside Out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Toyota's SM team / agency / PR entity continues to use Facebook to primarily pimp. There is a lean-in nature to content consumption, rather than lean-back. B2B companies treat YouTube (and Facebook above, and three other Social Networks below) as their PR channel. Ok, I'm a Mechanical Engineer.). (In

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